when you understand the struggle of being the support…
aka. most the time in solo queue your teammates are too busy dps-ing and scatter all over the map screaming “I NEED HEALING” but you can’t get to them cause you were left behind the enemy line
Recently, Blizzard announced season one of competitive Overwatch is coming to an end, on August 17th. There will be rewards, which is based off the highest rank a player had achieved during that season. So I thought, “hey, I should probably grind up some rank so I can get the extra competitive points”.
Biggest. Mistake. Ever.
Why? You may ask. The reason is because, I highly believe I got screwed during the placement matches. I participated, literally the day it was opened for the consoles. During that time, there was nothing but rage quitter, disconnect and or unbalanced matchmaking. My initial placement rank was at 43. Yes, forty fucking three, that is ridiculously low even for my standards. I am not an amazing player, but I can carry my own weight during a fight. In Destiny, there are times I carried the whole team. Having my rank placed at 43, which btw is actually lower than both my friend’s initial rank ‘cause no one likes to play support, that’s like saying my K/D in Destiny is below 1.
So I mostly solo queue and try my best to get out of this “ELO hell”. What I noticed was that, in the 40s, no one likes to play support and yet they aren’t good at DPS or tanks either. Which means, unless you have a very good support, there is no way to win the game.
I finally crawl my way out of 40s and into the 50s… got to say, people in the 50s playing any of the heroes are like a result of a coin toss. They might be good at the hero or they might not. Expect, you have greater chances of getting the “might not”. And yet they refuse to switch heroes, even though, the enemy team have a counter for that hero or heroes. Probably the reason why I couldn’t get higher than rank 53. Although, playing with friends does take a huge load off the carrying. I can’t stress enough to my friends on how much my trigger finger hurts after a match…
Here are some of the end screen cards I remembered to save. Since, I usually only save clips of the gameplays.
There are times I get hate messages for, apparently killing them too much… It’s competitive play, what do you want from me? Should I reply, “got owned by a girl, winky face” next time around? Don’t worry, I usually just block them, I don’t see the point arguing with someone that childish.
Or apparently, I was accused of using a mouse and keyboard, lol. Although, they were actually very nice about it, added me as friend too.
Then, there are others who was genuine on the question. Which is pretty awesome when someone actually believe you are a decent player. Though, I didn’t think my aim was that good though? Compare to some of the people I met in Destiny.
This is my experience playing Overwatch so far. I just wish season two is less stressful… and hopefully I won’t get screw by the placement matches again…
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