I am a Lucio and Zen (can play Moira and Lifeweaver if needed) main who was hard stuck silver 1 for a good while before suddenly going on a losing streak, I managed to go down from halfway through silver 1 to silver 3 in just two days of being on a losing streak. I had unlucky wide match ups and one instance where a teammate was intentionally feeding. This not only took a toll on my win rate but also my enjoyment of the game, I don’t even want to queue up for ranked anymore knowing that if I do I’ll just lose with absolutely no way to prevent it. Am I getting worse? Are the people around me just getting better? I don’t know and I can’t even put my finger on it. I don’t think it’s my team, I fixed my positioning, my thought process and even my priorities and still, to no luck, another loss is what I run into, I don’t wanna go back to bronze and I just wanna make it to gold atleast, I wanna play comp, lose, and still have fun and not think “damn I don’t wanna queue up anymore this ruined my mood.” I wanna get better and see results instead of just getting unlucky.

Is this a skill issue? Do I just simply need to get good? Do I need to know someone who can just boost me? Please tell me what I can do to fix this, whether it’s sharing your experience or telling me what could help, anything will be appreciated, thank you.

I believe all 4 characters popped their ults in a similar timeframe, or potentially an echo got 2 in a single activations. This was way back when echo would clone tanks since her health didn't get reduced at all

I'd appreciate any pointers

I am a returning player (last played when ow2 came out for a year) who started a new account a while ago. I have about 70 qp games played this last two weeks, and I'm silver placed in ranked. But in most of my games the enemy team is composed of people much higher than silver. I have even queued into plat and above games in comp.

I have lost every game I have played except the required 20 qp wins for comp. And when I win its usually due to the enemy dcing or my team carrying me.

I really don't want to keep getting stomped by crazy good players over and over. Is this game not meant for people who aren't already good? If so I'll stop playing as its not for me. But I know their are ranks below plat, I just wont matchmake in them it seems.

I’m just cannon fodder in competitive right now honestly. I’ve had people form the enemy team say sorry for matching with me lol.

Not saying tanks aren’t very valuable or impactful or whatever. But that their impactfulness is increased by people’s eagerness to focus on the tank, not just damage wise shooting them but in trying to structure the team and strategy around the opposing tank.

I am not good at overwatch so maybe i’m wrong but I actively want to care as little about the enemy tank as possible. I feel like every bit of energy I dedicate towards them is them gaining value, when the enemy tank is fucking my(our) sh!t, my thought isn’t “damn I need to find a way to directly shut this guy down and beat them” it’s “what can I do so that I don’t have to look at this guy so much” and I feel incredibly alone with this mindset. I’m not saying playing ana into hog is like bad to do, but trying to shut down a tank is I feel so much easier accomplished by focusing on how can we kill their supports. No supports every tank folds, anti on hog is just like nice. Easier said than done for sure, but for example I’m playing ashe and a dva is making me not useful. I’m going to think about swaps or ways I can adjust my play so that I can not be fucked by dva and do what i want which is to shoot their supports.

This is certainly over simplified because I don’t have a deep understanding of the game but is the core concept wrong? Is there some major piece of nuance I’m missing? Probably but idk what.

As a diamond 4 dps, currently down from d2, I just don't know what to do against Sigma after his buffs. I've been basically a Tracer otp for years, but I haven't been playing her much this past season for obvious reasons, so I'm already out of my comfort zone in that sense. But no matter what hero I play, and I am comfortable on several other heroes, there's always a Sigma absolutely destroying me. He is my first and only ban pick, because I honestly don't know what to do against him besides shoot shields then die. I've been playing a lot of Mei, and seem to have the best luck on her, but not enough. I would like to get back to d2 before the end of the season but I definitely won't if I can't improve against him. I don't really have this problem with any other tanks. I know it's a skill issue, but I can't figure out what the skills are that I am lacking.

I only played as a quickplay warrior years ago, and I wanna know what to do to help my team more. I’m gold 5 right now (potentially silver 1 cause I’m queuing rn) and sometimes I feel like I cant do much besides heal and speed boost when they’re in trouble. I kill the occasional enemy when they’re low or out of position. Im winning most of my games like this, but a lot of them feel out of my control. Especially losses.

im also willing to drop my account or replay Ids if that helps

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Is appreciate it if anybody looked at this just to watch my teams tank gameplay they went hog and got melted at basically every fight i’m unranked and this is quick play so i understand that im going to get bad teammates sometimes but this game was the end to my 4 game win streak but im trying to learn zen (ignore my name i made the account awhile ago and doxxed myself by doing so) so what could i have done better in this game despite my hog feeding?

Edit: this is console and im playing on a switch and id say im fresh to the game as the last time i played consistently was ow1 custom games

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IGN: Mook Tracer PC

Had a really good game but just barely couldn't eek out the win. Based on watching the replay myself I kinda just get lost sometimes or forced out too easily. Was especially lazy vs cassidy and died a few times to nade. Pulse bombs were actually better than usual for me this game even though some of them were just totally whiffed.