Overwatch during unemployment hours, this is a real phenomenon.

I used to have a really strange work schedule so I ended up going to bed at around 10 in the morning and waking up around 6 pm.

I would play overwatch in between the hours of like 4am-9am, and this would be in normal weekdays. Let me tell me you man the people that play during these hours are not human I mean we are talking literal animals, this is because every normal human is sound asleep while the unemployed people that just play the game all day long and nothing else are the only ones on.

I played like this for about 1 year straight, once I got a new position and my sleep schedule became a normal one again, I went from averaging low masters to averaging low gm literally the same day and that’s where I’ve been ever since.

Basically all this is to say that there is an entire ecosystem that exists that only play during the times that no one else plays, they lurk like gremlins and sleep while you are awake. Because of their unlimited free time from being unemployed they are a lot better at the game than their normal daytime counterparts, though because they only ever play against each other they stay the same rank, it’s kinda like comparing American vs Asian servers.

So it’s fair to say a low masters player during unemployment hours equals a low gm player during normal hours, I mean I’m living proof.

Same day I locked in my new sleep schedule I won like 15 games in a row and got to gm4 which is approximately the rank I bounce around for the past couple months, and these games feel like the same difficulty level the low masters games felt during unemployment hours.

If you ever have the chance to queue competitive ow at 7am on a Tuesday give it a chance you’ll meet some interesting life forms for some reason they are all very talkative

I have never been a top player in Overwatch but I did reach diamond while solo queueing, which according to the percentage chart released by devs back in the time, it was like top 12%. Then I dedicated most of my time to Marvel Rivals, there I reached GM1 also solo queuing, which is like top 5% by the stats shown in game. But then I came back to Overwatch and found myself incapable of winning games in plat mmr QP and competitive matches. Before you say diamond is not that higher than plat so it’s technically very possible for a diamond to lose in plat, I have to say that while that’s true, I can just physically feel myself unable to react the way I used to. When I used to play Zenyatta, I could usually anticipate the pathing of dive heroes, and when they get on top of me, I could duel them and just outright kill them 60% of the time but now I just get killed or have to rely on peels most of the time.

I think it could be possible that the heroes I main on both games are just too different, because I mainly play Thor, which is a tank, in Rivals but my main on Overwatch is Zenyatta, but could this really be the reason why my skills dropped so much? It’s not like I never played other heroes. I did also play dive and brawler dps heroes on Rivals, so I thought I would feel right at home with Anran or Reaper, but it turned out I sucked at them too. If anyone has a lot of experience playing both games, feel free to share your insights.

I am trying to rank up my main account that is in silver in a massive loss streak since last season when I maintained plat for multiple seasons before (54W/75L this season). I still play a couple alts, onewhere I still have a positive WR in plat (34W/24L this season), another one where I am 50/50 in low diamond.

In previous seasons on my main, I used to be able to fly through silver and gold up to G1, but now I have no impact on the outcome of my matches.

My process is to try to see how well I can play with my team, if not possible I just take a lot more risk to either carry the game or to be such a pain to deal with that my team gets a lot more space to work with. It probably works half the time on my alt in plat, however I just cannot make that work on my main in silver, I feel like that I am just not good enough to manage my team getting diffed.

Do you have any recommendations on how I should approach my games in silver?

I'll join a code of my latest game if anyone is willing to look at it.

Code: FM4GEX

IGN: Tragic

Heroe: Anran / Sierra

Platform: PC

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I exclusively play Winston, Mauga, D.va. I'm currently GM 4. I want to try to push for champ this year, and I want to find a scrim team. But first I want to pick up at least one more hero, not really out of necessity, my current heropool never leaves me in a situation where I feel that I can't win because of my hero pick, but with the weekly hours I have on this game, 3 heroes is starting to feel a little stale.

So I played a lot of quickplay games, like at least 3 on every tank (except roadhog (screw that guy)). I Enjoyed Ball, Doom and Orisa the most.

Doom was fun, but he just gets worse the higher your rank is, and he's extremely niche in a team environment Guxue and Donghak, the two best doomfists in the world only pick Doom as a hail mary throw something at the wall to see if it sticks type strat, or to counter a very niche Sym Bastion comp. So since I wanna scrim, I kinda wrote off Doom just because my team would probably never want me to play Doom over my current pool.

Orisa is fun, sue me, her ult bangs. I think her skill floor is low enough for me to just force her in ranked on main every five games or so, until I get her.

But what I really wanna learn is Ball. Of the Three he's the best in solo queue ranked, and he's also the least niche in team play. Problem is I have no experience with him, and his skill floor is imo the highest of the three. If I force him in GM, I'm just gonna get railed and not learn him at all, if I go quickplay the matchmaking quality is just not good enough to practice properly either.

I'm contemplating whether i play on an old unplaced account that was diamond the last time I played on it, or if I should just man up and lose some rank, not like I can't get it back on Winston if I really want to.

Anyone with any tips on how to best practice a hero from scratch without getting viscously typed at?