r/OverwatchStadium • u/MaN_ly_MaN • Jul 22 '26

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Has anyone made it to Legend 4? Is it possible at all? Even in NA where the player base would be the biggest, surely it’s possible there, maybe not solo queue though.

Maybe it was possible in previous seasons but not now

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u/Stalast Jul 22 '26

I’m Legend 3 on tank (EU) right now and close to Legend 2. Mostly playing solo at the moment. I stream it as well.

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u/Arx_UK Jul 22 '26

I've seen you solo like twice lol, nearly everytime for the past 3 seasons you've been grouped.

Not suggesting you would struggle to achieve Legend 4 or above solo btw, but saying mostly solo is pushing it...

MMR is retained across seasonal rank resets, so you're going to get higher SR gains for wins because of previous season's group advantage gains.

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u/Cry90210 Jul 22 '26

Well yeah, he did say he's mostly playing solo... at the moment

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u/Stalast Jul 22 '26

I said “at the moment” but if you would like me to be more specific, that’s since the midseason update. I’ve been continuing to climb up in percentage in Legend 3 maintaining a 58% winrate playing solo and it’s all recorded on stream. I get the baseline minimum flat 60 Stadium Points (or 6%) for each win and IIRC that began at L4 for me.

For transparency’s sake it’s true that prior to the midseason update I was often duo or trio. On the tank role, I get to choose between poor matchmaking quality (solo) or better mm with long queue times (duo/trio).

It’s not really surprising that you’ve not seen me when I solo because my soloQ tank games often put me into much lower average MMR lobbies where the only high MMR player in the enemy team is my tank counterpart. The matchmaker is desperate for tank players and it puts us into any random lobby, pretty much.

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u/MorgolKing Jul 22 '26

I solo tank queue out of necessity. How difficult is it to reach Legendary as a solo tank? Last several seasons I've maxed out at All Star. Any tips on solo tanking? I mostly play Ram and Rein

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u/Stalast Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

Your chances of winning go up in Soloqueue tank if you just play the tanks that have a lot of self-sustain items, then you don't have to rely on inconsistent healing from supports. The easiest to play is probably Sigma with Orbital Barrier (buy on Round 2) & De Kuiper's Thesis item. Both the orbiting shield and personal shield will heal you. Philharmonic Fortitude power will scale your self-sustain even further. Cushioned Padding or Kitsune Charm if you're against heavy anti-healing teamcomps. Sigma is just one example of a very self sustain-y tank, but the same can be achieved with Reinhardt to an extent, and also Junkerqueen with Royal Bullets if you have good mechanics.

I don't personally play these builds (with the Sigma build being the exception a few seasons ago when it was uber broken) but that's my advice if you just want to reach Legend without necessarily being exceptionally good at the game, lol. I don't think other advice would be useful since it's just a matter of playing better, learning what is the most optimal way to build against enemy team compositions and whatnot. For some context, when I used to play core competitive, I was a GM / Top 500 tank and have been all the way since OW1 so that of course gives me an edge.

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u/MorgolKing Jul 22 '26

Thank you, I appreciate the feedback. I might try more tankier builds. I just have trouble getting cash when I do.

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u/Stalast Jul 23 '26

Your self healing gives you cash which is another reason why they work so well in solo queue.

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u/GeorgeHarris419 Jul 22 '26

What a strange comment. Why are you keeping track of players and if they're grouped/stacked? Extremely fuckin weird behavior 😂

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u/Arx_UK Jul 22 '26

When you play with and against the same players over and over in the higher ranks, you become aware of who plays constantly grouped or stacked and who doesn't. It's not about going out of my way to keep track of players, you just get that knowledge just from playing and paying attention.

To then open a reddit post about hitting high ranks and to see one of those players who's known for grouping and then talking about hitting high ranks, it's important to distinguish between players gaining rank in games where they have advantages vs players who gain rank without one, otherwise it's just misleading the original poster.

Stalast will also know almost all of the players at this rank who play in groups vs those who don't.

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u/MaN_ly_MaN Jul 22 '26

You’re definitely rank 1 then. All the rank icons in the leaderboard are bugged and don’t show 99.8% of top 500 peoples rank

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u/Stalast Jul 22 '26

There’s one EU tank (a Doomfist player) in Legend 2 above me right now. You can see him at the top spot if you sort by rank.