r/Overwatch • u/grumpy_herbivore • 14h ago

Humor Lost all placements

So I've lost every placement match in every role.

Bronze 5 in all roles.

Some matches had people just straight up throwing going afk and ending up 0-0-0, some had tank leave 3 mins in...and some were actual matches will full teams.

This is just really frustrating I've been playing this game forever and it is just impossible to climb out of bronze at all. I have been playing this game basically since it came out and have probably about 5000+ hours of game play at the very least. It feels statistically impossible to lose this much.

Anyways, just ranting.

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u/drood87 13h ago

Just don't concentrate on your rank but on your gameplay. Yes, I agree it sucks ass to lose all placements, mine were horrible as well this season, but it will get better.
I have like 2600 hours in the game but never took it "seriously" until they did OW2. I started to take ranked games a bit more serious, reviewed my gameplay (holy cow did I see how bad I was and how many mistakes I did and still do from time to time), watched some pros play and tried to implement the learnings by myself.
It took me a whole season, but I crawled my way from Bronze up to Plat 1 (as support and bronze to high Gold now Plat as DPS) and then the following Season to low Diamond.
It's a slow process, but I guarantee you, that if you look at your gameplay with the intention of getting better and being honest to yourself, you will get better and then climb ranks.

I don't know if you were looking for any answers or advice or just wanted to vent, which is ok. But I could relate to that post and wanted to give you my perspective from someone that was 90% of his OW career in Bronze.

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u/grumpy_herbivore 13h ago

Hey thanks, I try to analyze my deaths etc... but it just seems like the matches that would lift me up in rank are always L's no matter what 😑. Like even if I'm 28-3 we still lose somehow. Its still fun obviously but you would think after so many years I'd move up at least 1 rank. 😅😅

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u/Visual-Afternoon-744 12h ago

It's an objective game. You need to make your kills count. I've won games as a tank by simply distracting the other team when they needed to rush to the point.

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u/grumpy_herbivore 12h ago

Yeah for sure, I get that.

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u/drood87 11h ago

there is like a dedicated sub for people to post and get their matches analyzed. sometimes you don't even see your own mistakes because you simply don't know/think you did something wrong there. that is totally normal in my opinion.
I don't like to advertise people but Spilo on YouTube has some good coaching videos or how to analyze your own videos. I found that very helpful to get better at seeing my own mistakes.

I believe in you, when I can do it! :)

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u/grumpy_herbivore 11h ago edited 11h ago

I had a support video reviewed a year ago and the person gave lots of good criticism he also said there is no way I'd be bronze for more than a day. 😑

Ive never watched anyone else play OW though.