After reading some people's opinions about this and then realizing how widespread this belief is, I thought I'd make a post.
Common misconceptions:
- Leavers/bad players are stopping me from ranking up
Every time you play competitive, your team and the enemy team's players are a dice roll. The players that end up on your team are the same that can end up on the enemy team. Those terrible players you always complain about? They're on the enemy team too.
This means your team has 5 terrible players and the enemy team has 6 terrible players. Assuming you're
actuallygood, you will be the deciding factor. It's your 5 dice roll players (+1 good player, you) versus the enemy team's 6 dice roll players.
Over a long enough period of time you will eventually reach your true rank. If you're winning 50% of the time, then Blizzard's ranked system works. You're where you belong, congratulations, you're probably average. No shame in that.
You have two options here:
1) Play support and do a really good job carrying with Lucio/Zen/Mercy game-changing ults. (Difficult)
2) Duo with a support main or join a group where there is a support so you can have your desired role. (Easier)
- My teammates always disconnect or ragequit
Again, the teammates you have on your team are the
same as the teammates on the enemy team.
You have an advantage though. You don't disconnect or ragequit, right? So you have 5 teammates who can d/c or quit and the enemy team has 6 teammates that can.
This means that your teams will, on average, disconnect less than your enemy teams.
- I'm stuck in SR hell and always get gold medals!!
Getting gold medals doesn't mean you are good.
Gold medals are indicative of two things:
1) You are statistically doing better than your teammates. This doesn't mean much because if your teammates are trash, your medals mean nothing. It just means you're doing well, comparitively, to a team that is doing poorly. It does NOT mean that you ARE doing well.
2) You are good at things that medals measure. Gold medals don't measure how good your ults are, how good you are deflecting enemy abilities with Genji reflect, how good you are at blocking ults with your Mei wall, etc.
It is INDICATIVE that you may be doing those things well, but it does not count as a golden sticker that says, "I'm doing everything right and my teammates aren't, GG THIS TEAM SUX!!!11"
Basically you need to stop using gold medals as a metric of how good you are at the game. There are dynamics in Overwatch that are unable to be measured and quantified. These dynamics you're unaware of are what prevent you from climbing.
In summary, ranked is very often a game of averages and seeing how well you play in the long run. Winning and losing streaks will happen.
A pretty good mindset to have is that, of your games:
- 25% are easy wins.
- 25% of the time you'll be stomped and there's nothing you can do.
- 50% of your games you can influence. These are the games that matter.
You must have the mindset that you don't do everything right. You make mistakes; we all do. Fix your mistakes and optimize your play. If you don't fix your mistakes and recognize your flaws, you'll never climb.
A person who knows they aren't playing at 100% efficiency and makes an effort to improve will always do better than someone who thinks they're doing everything right (because MUH MEDALS) and stagnates.
Disregard this post if you want to, but I can guarantee you I could come back to you in a few months and you'll still be just as bad, at the same exact rank, playing the same exact way. making the exact same mistakes.
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Hope this helps