Don't play Quick Match just to practice for Ranked.

[侍Kage]

I reached dia 3 recently as playing only dps, account level is 26 so i didn't even play that much. I wanted to get more experience on the other dps characters that i have barely played before going into diamond matches. I spammed around 10-15 quick match just now and i can easily say that do not do this, it is nowhere close to ranked matches at all.

It's either way your team stomps them or they stomps your team, there is no in-between. My plat matches were insanely equal most of the time, not always but most of the time. You'll learn nothing in quick match, all the comps you getting are super random. In ranked, you'll see so many people playing tanks and supports than dps at least for my experience. In quick match, you'll get 5 dps or 6 dps most of the time, sometimes 2 tank 4 dps, sometimes only 1 healer. That's almost never the case in ranked (this applies to both teams) Even if your team looks balanced, enemy team will look so random. Or your team will look random and enemy team will look proper comp.

It's just insanely random experience that nowhere close to ranked experience. If you are playing quick matches just to practice for ranked, you're gaining literally nothing and wasting your time.

What I recommend? Create a different steam account, play with that account and unlock ranked as soon as possible. Spam ranked with heroes you want to play but only play ranked. Doesn't matter if you lose, it's your throwaway account, just practice ranked instead and you'll be way better on your main account than spamming quick matches. I'm going to do that now personally and learn the heroes i have barely played for sometime. That quick matches i have played were totally waste of time.

[Breeze]

Competitive kinda sucks rn. I have far more fun and surprisingly balanced matches in QP.

No joke, my first five comp matches had a teammate quit mid-match in four of them. I have yet to have 4 teammates quit after dozens of QP matches.

[Izuna Drop]

Originally posted by Breeze:

Competitive kinda sucks rn. I have far more fun and surprisingly balanced matches in QP.

No joke, my first five comp matches had a teammate quit mid-match in four of them. I have yet to have 4 teammates quit after dozens of QP matches.

Well, my first comp matches as a lv 26 people where doing 2/2/2 comps and even counter-swaps on bronze, so it seems ppl on ranked atm knows what to do compared to launch day. And matches can be sweaty.

[Breeze]

Originally posted by Bom Dia, Guru!:

Originally posted by Breeze:

Competitive kinda sucks rn. I have far more fun and surprisingly balanced matches in QP.

No joke, my first five comp matches had a teammate quit mid-match in four of them. I have yet to have 4 teammates quit after dozens of QP matches.

Well, my first comp matches as a lv 26 people where doing 2/2/2 comps and even counter-swaps on bronze, so it seems ppl on ranked atm knows what to do compared to launch day. And matches can be sweaty.

Those comp matches were a few days ago, but yeah, a game this big and new it's understandable. I'm not completely giving up on comp but most of my games are still QP.

[Sicotic]

It's ridiculous. Like In casual games I would do amazing and at least always have someone to have my back because its yk A TEAM GAME. Comp is worse. You have healers doing 10,000 in heals and tanks blocking 10,000 and then ur dps gets instantly pieced up and you get killed because your not meant to be an attacker. It's busted and toxic ash. Had all these people saying we should kill ourselves. How ass we are and a bunch of things. I don't think I longer give a ♥♥♥♥ about comp simply because the people who play it are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Crunchy[Daz]]

Originally posted by Sicotic:

It's ridiculous. Like In casual games I would do amazing and at least always have someone to have my back because its yk A TEAM GAME. Comp is worse. You have healers doing 10,000 in heals and tanks blocking 10,000 and then ur dps gets instantly pieced up and you get killed because your not meant to be an attacker. It's busted and toxic ash. Had all these people saying we should kill ourselves. How ass we are and a bunch of things. I don't think I longer give a ♥♥♥♥ about comp simply because the people who play it are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Its really no surprise that you saw more and more of this behavior the more mainstream gaming became. There used to be a time when gaming was kind of niche and filled with intelligent people who understood its a video game for fun.

[Veenix]

Disagree. What you recommend is people start smurfing. That is not okay.
QP is there to practice heroes. Practice them in there. Doesn't matter how random things are.
You are there to learn the basics of the hero. It doesn't matter that it's different from ranked as it's only to learn the hero, the abilities and best ways to play the hero.
Then you go into ranked and apply that knowledge together with your gamesense to play ranked properly.

It is not your mastering of a hero that will carry you through ranks but your gamesense. Mastering doesn't become important until Diamond and GM.

Do not smurf, practice in QP to learn new heroes and then go to ranked.

[freedumb]

QP is random, true, but still loads of fun and mostly teams are balanced with the odd all DPS and I am the only healer (which can work actually). Most games are quite close and I am about 60/40 win/loose in those matches. So even unbalanced teams can win which I think is great mechanics.

[Kitt 🌟 Stargazer]

Where else can we practice characters against actual people though?

I guess Doom Match can work and FFA means no teammates to screw over. But that's a temporary game mode...