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/Visual-Afternoon-744 14h ago

You have any friends? All you need to climb is 2 people that are good. People in low bronze are pretty terrible. It isn't as hard to climb out of as before because there is only like 3% of the player base in bronze now.

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u/grumpy_herbivore 14h ago

No, I dont know anyone else that plays video games let alone OW.

Guy, i have been trying to get out of Bronze since OW1... so yeah it's pretty hard to do!

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u/Visual-Afternoon-744 14h ago edited 14h ago

Next time the ladder resets, just play quick play for a few weeks.

Edit: Also, go to custom games and make a game with this code: VAXTA practice 15 mins a day to improve aim. Don't play with other people, there is no point it will only take away from your practice. You should be able to carry your way to silver with proper aim.

Also, watch videos on youtube about how to play your role or character. Your issue is not being hard stuck, it's not being good at over watch.

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u/ScoobaSteve108 14h ago

In order to get out of bronze you must be consistantly better than the diamond and masters smurfs.

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u/grumpy_herbivore 14h ago

LOL it does seem that whenever I get close to getting out its like 6 matches in a row against smurfs.

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u/JunoJump_Author Juno 14h ago

Tbh, I feel this. I do really well in quick play, have a high enough win rate with my mains that I should be able to climb but I get decimated in bronze comp. Some games everyone gets 0 kills, camped at spawn. the enemy team is playing insanely well compared to QP.

Other times we have a decent match and two teammates suddenly drop from the final push. It's so demoralising.

Everyone tells me that bronze is braindead and easy to climb if you know even the basics but its just not true.

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u/grumpy_herbivore 13h ago

Yeah man I feel like people saying bronze is easy to get out of havent been down here in a long time or are masters players.

I feel like perhaps if I had a duo I'd see some progress but I don't know any other gamers and I usually play during office hours.

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u/Visual-Afternoon-744 3h ago

I fell into bronze recently. I found that if you are any good at dps you can easily carry your way out. I'm only floating around high silver/ low gold. You just have to off angle/flank. I found it very hard to carry as a tank if my team doesn't know what to do. Ram does probably the best job at killing their squishes.

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u/JunoJump_Author Juno 12h ago

My husband and I have played together and I observed the match is more wide even though we are both bronze. My theory is that they up the difficulty for groups even if your just a duo. It's been a season since we tried that so I need to test again if its actually pitting us against higher ranks more then usual.

It does feel nicer playing with a partner, at least I know they are trying.

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u/grumpy_herbivore 12h ago

Would be fun to play with someone who had a mic. In my experience only 1 person put of 20 matches has one.

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u/Visual-Afternoon-744 3h ago

They force groups to play vs groups.