I need to vent.

I'm sorry everyone, I just need a place to vent and this is the community I feel closest to.

So I'm in gold. I'm not an amazing player, I admit that. But, I have very good qualities about me. I've got very good game sense, good teamwork, great communication, and most of all, I'm a god pharah. However, you can only use pharah in so many situations. I put on good performances on genji, tracer, Zarya, Dva, monkey, and some other DPS, but I try to play for the team as much as possible.

Today I got to 2418, and then suddenly, I plummeted downhill with 7 losses in a row right back to 2200. Now I know it doesn't sound too bad, but along that tumultuous path I encountered toxic people who called me a faggot, an entire team who told me I was throwing (I was playing Ana and doing my best as her because no one else offered to heal), a roadhog who would tell the enemy team all of our ults, a Dva who just waved hi and dove into the enemy team on purpose, and i was told to kill myself twice. That's just in a few hours, and this consistently happens to me.
I really try my best to be a team player, and I really try so hard to climb out of gold. I know they all say this, but I do believe I belong in platinum or tiers above, because I know I have the consistently improving mechanics and gamesense to hang there.

I love this game so much, yet nights like these just really put me in a horrible, sour mood. Sorry for the vent.

go hanzo main :P after getting to high plat like 4-5 seasons ago i got fed up with how hard it was to play solo and started maining hanzo

and i was actually pretty good on hanzo, i got a lot of opening kills and crucial picks but because i was "trolling" people started throwing, it was so stupid, since then i dont really play comp rather i go to quick play and i have fun again ;)

Its felt especially bad lately. One of my accounts is only a little higher than you and my other masters and people are so bad lately. Trolls and slurs and people just generally not even trying. It's obnoxious. It feels like blizzard hasn't even been moderating. If you are calling people the f word or the n word in chat, it should just be an immediate ban.

I mean luckily when I'm playing well, I can usually carry all but the biggest trolls assuming the rest of my team is at least semi-trying but it just makes you salty. It's frustrating having to work so hard sometimes when it could be so easy. You know?

But yeah, there should just be a zero tolerance policy using words like that to strangers.

It's interesting that you have to start out strong to prevent your team from tilting.

I notice that I primarily lose because of team compositions (this observation includes throwers). I try to switch as fast as possible when I see an opportunity for a counter/better composition. If they want to play Bastion, play around them.

Knowing win conditions is super important. If you completed an escort map, stall out the other team. If it's the final point of capture or hybrid or escort, go DVA, go Reaper because everyone will be fighting on point.

I climbed really easy using 76. Take high ground, go for high ground flanks, focus fire supports.

But, I'm still stuck in mid plat! However, I do climb out of gold very easily now a days.

Fuckers in school telling me, always in the barber shop Chief Keef ain’t bout this, Chief Keef ain’t bout that My boy a BD on fucking Lamron and them He, he they say that ngga don’t be putting in no work SHUT THE FUCK UP! Y’all nggas ain’t know shit All ya motherfuckers talk about Chief Keef ain’t no hitta Chief Keef ain’t this Chief Keef a fake SHUT THE FUCK UP Y’all don’t live with that ngga Y’all know that ngga got caught with a ratchet Shootin’ at the police and shit Ngga been on probation since fuckin, I don’t know when! Motherfuckers stop fuckin’ playin’ him like that Them nggas savages out there If I catch another motherfucker talking sweet about Chief Keef I’m fucking beating they ass! I’m not fucking playing no more You know those n*ggas role with Lil’ Reese and them.

Don't even worry about those people, competitive matchmaking is a measurement device to see how hard you can carry a team of mercy, sym, and tracer mains.
Join a team and play scrims/pugs, you get a lot more positive input, advice, and improve. Way less tilting too.

I feel you. All 6 seasons so far, I’ve been in low/mid gold. The best experiences I’ve had in comp have been being placed in low silver and getting out of it in a week and the one time I got to 2300. I don’t think I’m a great player but I have good gamesense and I am an incredible genji. I have a problem with coming off toxic because I know common mistakes like trickling. I would say I am better than many genjis in plat and diamond.

I ran into a player a few days ago who got angery and call my friends and I retards who couldn’t play the game. We challenged him to 1v1s and said we would admit we were bad if he won, and he would do the same if we won. We then all beat him in them on his mains and he said 1v1s don’t take skill and we won on all the no skill heroes, so we played many different variations and won them all. It just shows how no one in gold and other low tiers are willing to admit problems about themselves.

EDIT: Oh, and mercy. I know she’s in every game at every tier, but it makes me so fucking mad because every carry moment I’ve had is negated by an annoying mercy who just uses res, pops her ult and brings back 2 more. And I can’t do anything about it cause she has better flying mobility than pharah with her ult and without her ult she just flies back and forth. Some of my favorite ways (dive, nano blade) to play are completely negated. I have more enjoyment out of death match because there aren’t whiny mercy one tricks sucking their teams dicks, ruining the purpose of many strategies to get early picks. This makes hero’s like widow and hanzo useless if you don’t kill the mercy. If I could nerf mercy into oblivion, I would, if I could remove mercy, I would.

I suggest stacking in 4-6 if you wanna get out of gold and into diamond without killing yourself along the way

if you lose a couple games, take a break, play qp, or something else, then get back to comp, play the next day. no pt in getting up/down like this, will just burn you out faster on the game.

I am also in the gold struggle, although I have not played for like 6 weeks. Perhaps we can start an over.gg squad and try to get together one or two nights a week and stack up to try and improve together.

My max losses was always 3. Once I lost 3 in a row I turn the game off and played some CS or stay in OW and play mystery heroes or 3v3 or something.

I'd love to stack with any of you guys who are in gold or struggle. We already kinda know each other so I think we'd work great.

I'm on EST, you guys?

My battletag is: Pixelfish#11213

Add me up

If you'd like to work on your personal play so you'd be able to carry all the other people in your team in case you're playing solo I could watch your vods if you were to record any.
Add me on Discord @ Jade#7295 if you'd want to.

Understand you my friend. I am lower than you and i always find out people who doesnt want to have any sort of teamplay....and that ruin my game. Its feels bad and frustating lose for those idiots and this is the worst thing in the game (but i am in love with overwatch). I really hope Blizzard will be able to change something ( i dont know what but i am hoping). If someone want to add me in european server i would love to stack with you. poi98#2182

im on eu so ping gona be a problem

I'll add all of y'all later when I log on.

but whatever im remiska#2914

2000-2500 is THE elo hell, don't fell bad, if you wanna get out of it, try to trio with 1 main tank, 1 mercy and 1 DPS.

Pasta#21190 on EU. Right now mid gold. Bounce all around gold depending on the day.
Would love to stuck with people who love this game.

Mercy mains playing genji Reeeeeeeeeeeeee

https://twitter.com/C9Surefour/status/913966037422317568

finding incidents of toxicity & throwing occurring in every rank has discouraged me from attempting to climb. why try to climb to diamond if no one seems to take their rank seriously anymore? i honestly have more fun 2-3 stacking in quick play than i do in comp.

as most have said, the only fun in comp i've had was playing in 4-5 stacks with friends. nowadays i almost exclusively QP with my girlfriend. at least i can turn off text chat and still have fun picking bastion or trying out symmetra (who i never play) in QP without getting raged at. turning off text chat in overwatch has significantly improved my capability to have fun, i must say. which is sad.