Plat Players are boosted

[AlastairKD]

I've had the unfortunate situation of being a solo queue player who's hardstuck in Platinum after nearly getting to diamond and peaking at 90 points in Plat I because my teammates ever since that peak have been WILDLY incompetent.

Most of them don't understand basic concepts such as counter-picking, ability synergy, or even positioning. Most of them have egos the size of the sun and blame the team for their mistakes, and the rest just insta-lock DPS and go negative for most of the match and refuse to switch off their choice even when they're being hard countered by other characters.

To put it simply, the ranking system needs to be looked at. There's too many players in Platinum that play less like competent players and more like people who got boosted out of Bronze rank.

[stuck in gold in Jerkmate ranked]

if your hard stuck it kinda sounds like your the issue...

[AlastairKD]

Originally posted by yummers:

if your hard stuck it kinda sounds like your the issue...

Yeah let me just hard carry the entire team to victory as a support main every game, that's totally how things work.

[LunarGatta]

I solo climbed up to platinum 1 currently while only having lost like 3 matches all in all, 2 of those because the entire team instalocked DPS and refused to switch, 1 because we had a comp of 2-2-2 but unfortunately the DPS players were lobotomized and couldn't do any damage or get any picks.

If you're hardstuck, chances are you're at the correct rank. I can still carry most matches, the only ones I can't carry are the absolute worst of the worst.

[LunarGatta]

Originally posted by AlastairKD:

Originally posted by yummers:

if your hard stuck it kinda sounds like your the issue...

Yeah let me just hard carry the entire team to victory as a support main every game, that's totally how things work.

My guy, I'm a support main, I have in fact hard carried all the way up to plat 1 and I'm still rapidly climbing....

Edit: Besides, why are you mad you're hardstuck in plat? It's a decent enough rank.

[AlastairKD]

Originally posted by Purpura:

Originally posted by AlastairKD:

Yeah let me just hard carry the entire team to victory as a support main every game, that's totally how things work.

My guy, I'm a support main, I have in fact hard carried all the way up to plat 1 and I'm still rapidly climbing....

So did I, watch how quickly that falls flat once your teammates start egoing and throwing like mine have. This isnt isolated either, this has been most of my games where people have massive egos and just dont play together with the team.

Or they pick dive tanks like Venom, overextend far into the enemy's backline and out of my LOS, then complain about not getting healed when I'm busy keeping the team alive who's actually participating in the team fight.

[forever]

crazy that i got to grandmaster solo. maybe i'm lucky????

[DoremianCleff]

Solo queue tank, got to plat 2, still climbing. Had unlucky lose streak from plat 3 to gold 2, but since it's been pretty good, with few very enjoyable close matches. I live for those.

Talking to your team and being chill helps a lot. And by talking i mean talking, not just blaming everyone. If you can't say anything constructive for your team, at least give general pointers "Use cover", "Ping if you need heal", "Bait their ults, so we can push".

Btw, being healer doesn't mean you have to play backline. There are valid strategies of playing flank healer and assisting your stronger divers, who are good at disrupting enemy team. Just hanging back and hoping things will resolve somehow is how you get slowly and painfully pushed into a loss. I think Loki is very suitable as flanker, as well as Cloak and Dagger. And Racoon can remotely support team, due to how his healing works and you don't need to stick around for res.

Don't say "My team is bad" untill you are certain that you are doing everything that you possibly can.

[AlastairKD]

Originally posted by DoremianCleff:

Solo queue tank, got to plat 2, still climbing. Had unlucky lose streak from plat 3 to gold 2, but since it's been pretty good, with few very enjoyable close matches. I live for those.

Talking to your team and being chill helps a lot. And by talking i mean talking, not just blaming everyone. If you can't say anything constructive for your team, at least give general pointers "Use cover", "Ping if you need heal", "Bait their ults, so we can push".

Btw, being healer doesn't mean you have to play backline. There are valid strategies of playing flank healer and assisting your stronger divers, who are good at disrupting enemy team. Just hanging back and hoping things will resolve somehow is how you get slowly and painfully pushed into a loss. I think Loki is very suitable as flanker, as well as Cloak and Dagger. And Racoon can remotely support team, due to how his healing works and you don't need to stick around for res.

Don't say "My team is bad" untill you are certain that you are doing everything that you possibly can.

My main healers are Jeff and Luna, and im almost always with the team or trying to go for a push.

[StoneFrog24]

Ranks in this game doesn't look like what it is compared to other ranks in other competitive games. I've heard that reaching grand master is has easy has if you were platinum or diamond in some other games at the moment so eternity and one above all would be like master and grand master from other games.

Overall what I mean by that is that after each seasons, ranks might just stabilize and like master and grand master could just be harder to reach in marvel rivals for exemple.

There's also the facts that some players could just get carried while climbing or have the chance to play with decent teamates or they could also be playing with friends too who knows or they could be cheaters cause I've seen plenty of cheaters in less then a month in the game compared to many other competitive games.

[DoremianCleff]

Well, you are healer, you don't "go for a push". That's a tank's call. You need to think about things that you can do at your possition, be it dealing extra damage or freezing opponents that out of possition.

Also Jeff has mobility to go around map as well, he can flank and is a pretty strong damage dealer with a very good survivability. you can leave your team some bubbles and try to some funky plays, by taking high ground and shooting and enemy healers or something.

There's always more things to do outside your "intended role" and you may not think this way, but a bunch of small things add up in the end. If you annoy people enough, they will try to hunt you, if they do that, they will get out of possition and ease off your tank or not pay attention to a diver. The more you stick to "the thing that you do", less options you'll have and easier it becomes to exploit.

[PropanePls]

Just buy a skin and they're put you on the priority queue (good team).

[AloofHermit37]

its easiest to climb ranks by dual queuing

[stuck in gold in Jerkmate ranked]

Originally posted by AlastairKD:

Originally posted by yummers:

if your hard stuck it kinda sounds like your the issue...

Yeah let me just hard carry the entire team to victory as a support main every game, that's totally how things work.

guess your not healing enough then, i main rocket and finish matches with 30-40k and my team gets to stay alive and do their part of the job.....sounds like your not doing yours

[45ay3asdasd]

this game allows you to premade an entire team in ranked. that should tell you all you need to know, the ranks are full of people who are boosted by their better friends. it invalidates the entire ranking system.

[AlastairKD]

Originally posted by yummers:

Originally posted by AlastairKD:

Yeah let me just hard carry the entire team to victory as a support main every game, that's totally how things work.

guess your not healing enough then, i main rocket and finish matches with 30-40k and my team gets to stay alive and do their part of the job.....sounds like your not doing yours

I pull 30k healing almost every match, no amount of healing can fix my teammates god awful positioning or incessant desire to overextend and try to solo.