Can you escape Skill Rating quicksand? (<53)

I posted on official, but I figured here may be better.

Original: http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20747324542

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Is it luck? Do you have to buy alt accounts for you and all your buddies? What is the answer?

I have taken to recording my game-play and reviewing it with others to figure this out. The general consensus is that I am doing my part. Just getting boned by teammates or the system.

I have solo queued my entire time in competitive. Came out of placement games at 49. Hit 50 on day two, felt good. This is my first FPS and as I said, solo queue. Then the wheels came off.....

Day three I am back to 49. I had time for 4 games. Went 2/2 but here is the rub. In the wins there were early leavers that boned the XP. In the losses you have teammates that may rotate glue sniffing between mouse clicks, IDK.

Same scenario follows each time I try playing. I am usually 3-4 silver and golds in whatever role I play. I usually tank or support. Feels like when I play one of those the other is lacking. If we end up having people playing multiple support and tank roles, then I DPS. I do well, those have all but twice been very bad team games.

I now sit at a 45, 16-23, 6-4 after placements. So yes, 10-19 after that is bad. In most of the wins, an early leaver on the losing side. In most of the losses I am with derps that are (a)allergic to Reinhardt's shield, (b)those epic COD babes that feel solo point capture is possible, or (c)the 2 minutes in toxic GGers. When those pricks leave a match I apologize to the other team for the prick that cost them any chance of decent gain.

It is getting worse. As I hit 47 I hardly see a teammate over 49. That rating bubble you created, it is very hard to climb up from the wrong side. So now since your system seems to not have ability to differentiate in derp versus real effort I am lost. I am more that the wins and losses.

So now, am I just to now say fudge it, start over in 3 months? Do I buy a competitive mode reset (alt-account)? Do I quit and come back later? I mean, blizzard already has my money, so they may be cool with that.

you still have < 40 games played total, which means it's still very possible that you're not at the rating you should be at, beit higher or lower

This is my first FPS and as I said, solo queue.

shouldn't have terribly high expectations then; FPS ability takes a long time to develop

wait until reset?

From what I understand from talking with some of my IRL friends, people are way more toxic at <50 than >60. Not to say that doesn't happen; I still see people calling early ggs (one out of like 10 games?), but in all my games only two people has ever disconnected intentionally.

You're rated at 45 which isn't honestly that bad, especially if this is your first fps. Keep on practicing and playing. If the fact that you can't get higher in rank really bothers you, just play quick play on characters you want to get good at. With season rank resets, you'll go higher if you belong at a higher rank.

Good luck!

just like in DotA, the trench never ends, don't kid yourself on that.

I placed at 49 and then duo queued with a friend almost exclusively. Now we're ranked 80.
Yes you can get out but it's about rolling the enemies instead of just "doing your part".
That might mean abusing the fact that nobody likes to play mercy. It rewards big wombo-combo instagib ults like pharah and zarya (genji possibly?). Most players are pretty bad at dealing with tracer/widow/genji if you're good at those classes.