Lost my enjoyment in ranked

Hey guys,

I was wondering if anyone else has lately lost their enjoyment from playing ranked.

I main support (mostly Lucio) and it seems these days in ranked it's a struggle to have a team that either wants to play together or a team that doesn't get super salty about everything and kill the mood of the match. I'm usually a pretty upbeat and positive person, but after a large enough amount of salt I just recluse and stop trying to contribute to comms in a positive way and just try and do my best mechanically.. I'm wondering if i'd just have more fun playing DPS at like mid masters as opposed to struggling to find a fun team as a support in GM.

I still really like overwatch as a game, but playing ranked just hurts my soul at this point. Are there any pug groups or something that a person could join, or any other suggestions for enjoying the game competitively without having to deal with salty players?

I haven't played ranked for any length of time in months. Just did placements, got Top 500, then stopped playing and decayed.

If you're looking for enjoyment the only real way to play the game for fun rn is to play PTR quickplay with friends or be on an actual team sadly. If there are PUG groups they're inhouses, no real systems in place.

I don't know how much help reddit can provide but I did find myself a few peeps to have some fun or kinda serious ranked with sometimes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OverwatchLFT/

hmm thanks for the ideas guys..

Maybe i'll see if i can find a scrim team or something to play with. Don't really have time to commit to a serious one unfortunately. It seems that there's not a whole lot blizzard can do to increase player quality and reduce negative attitudes either, at least not right now. The mental state of ranked is decaying at the higher level, I can't help but wonder how it is down in diamond and below.

Just as bad, but with a lesser understanding of the game and a good chunk of players thinking they would be in Diamond/Masters if it wasn't for heir horrible teammates. So, lesser game sense + varying levels of lacking mechanical skills

The ladder is pretty much not fun to play in across the board from what I heard.

im still enjoying myself in highdiamond/low master, i get trolls 1 in 3 or one in 5 games depending on the day but if i get trolls i just relax and play widow and in a good game i just tryhard so its a good mix for me not to get to fatigued tbh, and im still climbing slowly since i dont loose much from troll games.

this is 3rd season in the row that i play only olacemant (for spray) and thats all my ranked games, i play solo in every game so quick play is much better, unlike in cs go you cant win games just with skill (well not as many at least), bigger problem than trolls i found actualy people who play "meta" and coz hanzo is not meta if someone picks him they start throwing and not healing him (same with rest of not meta picks) im talking about dimond,

Now i really only play ranked for the gold guns then just fuck around with friends in total mayhem

Mercy is exhausting to play against when no one focuses/checks for her and she gets every single res :(

same, I'm playing CS:GO lately and its been pretty fun.

I don't play ranked much for various reasons but I did make a team for the Overwatch University league and that was really fun so maybe try having a look at making a team for cups/amateur leagues like OWUL. Skill ranges from like 1.5k-4k and they match you in a division with people of equal skill.