Curious about Ranked

[Prismikz]

Season zero I had a high win rate playing mostly Mantis and C&D, reaching a peak of gold III so I could get the Moonknight skin. However, come season 1 and the rank reset, I've played dozens of comp games, playing the same heroes but haven't managed to even touch silver.

I'm unsure if I'm the problem, or if my teammates are limiting me but I've been conscious of my own performance and try my best the critique and fix my own gameplay. Either way, this is just a really frustrating way to start the season.

Hopefully its just the diamond plus players filtering out at the start of the season and I'll soon be able to regain a decent footing in competitive.

[watchdoge]

I wish I could get out of bronze3 as healer :D I win 1 game and then lose 3-4. Completely pointless at the moment

Wait a few weeks and maybe the god tier players will get out of the lower tier. I will wait

[mozzarxlla]

its like this in most games- start of the season better players get pushed back so its harder

[MetalMamacomon]

Cause everybodys ranks reseted. People from diamond+ went all back to silver, which was something very dumb to do, but the company did. So you are playing with people who know how to play now, if you wait 2 weeks or so, the ranks should be normal.

[Chud]

I'm almost back in diamond just playing luna snow, I usually limit myself to not saying it was anyone fault for my lose unless its extremely obvious like a 2-15 spiderman
I suppose since the game is still getting new players and all the gold/silvers being sent back to bronze isn't helping either.
I'd go over your gameplay and see what you could have done better and learn from it.

[Rosalisii]

Could be a littleeee bit of both. But I think the big thing is that the ranks haven’t filtered themselves out because the season is brand-spanking-new.

Everyone dropped 7 divs which means Diamond/Plat/Gold S0 players are no longer in their respective ranks and are now climbing just as you are. Theres going to be a wider pool of people with a way higher skill lvl and game sense than the actual bronze and silver and gold ranked crowd which is probably why it feels difficult to solo queue and climb. You’ll probably start experiencing leveled matches the more that the season fans out and more players are in a rank accurate to their skill lvls.

Personally I think the best you can do is take the time to review your gameplay and learn as you go so that your game sense can continue to improve even if ranked is rlly rough right now. Team queuing also helps a lot if youre able to gather some people with similar skill

[Dango]

Look. People keep asking about this and here is the real reason everyone is stuck in bronze/silver. The reset dumped 81% of players in bronze. There was also a new update that brought in a bunch of complete noobs. Its fine to be a noob but its causing those of use that were higher ranks to be stuck because we keep getting teamed with people who dont even know how to play the hero they chose.

I know this is the case because when you hit silver 3 it will tell you that you are now ranked higher than 81% of players. Before the reset I was ranked higher than 83% of players at plat 3. Thats insane.

[eyeeric]

Yeah I went from diamond down to silver, and the matches are just a crapshoot. None are competitive, either we stomp or they stomp. As people have mentioned just a lot of fresh players and a lot of really bad/good people all mixed in the same rank right now. Will even out in a week or so.