Basically the title. I've lost a few games now and I must say that it feels as if my team always just lacks the awareness and coordination to beat the opponents. Now I what ur thinking and before you say it, I know that my gameplay is nowhere near perfect. My aim does need a bit of sharpening up and my positioning needs tweaking. But can someone thats considered good at the game please watch the replay and give me some constructive criticism. Much appreciated 🙏

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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

Hi thank you for taking time out of your day to read this, any and all feedback even if typed is very much appreciated. Im looking to improve and climb the ranks so please be harsh if you have to as im really struggling to knuckle down on what i'm doing wrong necessarily as I feel that i'm making fundamental mistakes that I can't really point out to myself, mainly due to the fact im in low plat and someone in a higher rank would see easy mistakes that I make whereas I would be blind to it.

Replay code: BGKMC4 IGN: PabloJuan

Map: Nepal

Heros: Zarya

PC or console: PC

Rank: Plat 4

I just want to thank you again if you do go through this. I personally think the mistakes I made during this game was poor positioning in respective to my supports mainly, not fully engaging properly as I allow the other team to rack up large amounts of percentage on the point before I push and overuse of self bubbles in situations where I don't need it where my teammates could have used them much better potentially saving their lives.

For multiple games I play Hazard I go in I be annoying sometimes I get a kill and my team nowhere to be found. Fine, I switch to Ram so I can play point more nothing happens. I get poked to oblivion and nothing happens. People tell me not to just shoot tank too much and I try to take that and do something different than I just end up baby sitting my teamates by shooting tank then when I wanna go in now its my fault for some reason. Everyone wanna battle the tank.

I just feel overstimulated and powerless even tho I'm on the role where I'm supposed to basically be a getting space and making oppertunites for my team I guess.

edit: Here are some replay comes I guess I would love to know how I could carry these games ig lol. might just go back to playing DPS atp cuz playing tank gets u blamed for everything.

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TLDR AT END | For context, I am a Zen OTP, Plat. I climbed to Plat 1 solo queue, but deranked down to Plat 4 while playing with my Gold friends, and a bit of tilt queue on my part.

After around 50 hours in comp, I’ve come to the conclusion that playing with friends is very fun. However, a consistent pattern I've noticed is how the skill level of my friends affects my performance.

With lower-ranked friends (Gold, Tank and Support), we lose most games, even when they’re close fights. I try to play my best and put up good numbers but it feels like my skill expression gets capped, and in the end feels like a constant uphill struggle.

With friends that I consider are better than me (Plat/Diamond-peaked, Support), games feel much better. I put up some of my best games. I win more and the overall experience feels more fun and I feel like I can reach higher ceilings.

This made me question, at what point is playing with better players considered “carrying” versus legitimate improvement? Why doesn’t playing with my lower-ranked friends yield similar results/improvements?

TL;DR: Zen OTP experiences better games with slightly higher-skilled friends than lower-ranked ones. Why doesn’t the same dynamic work in reverse, and where is the line between competing and getting carried?

So I’m basically a Soldier one trick. I have 71 hours on soldier now, and in second place is Zarya with 4 hours. I only play tracking heroes because my clicking is awful, and my projectiles are even worse. I’m silver (actually got to gold 5 yesterday :3) and I’ve been silver for all 114 hours I’ve played this game.

I play mostly 6v6, which means there’s often times where we already have too many DPS and no one wants to play tank, so I pick up Zarya, but I actually have no clue how to play her and I feel quite lost. It goes without saying that I have a negative win rate with her. I see it like this:

It’s the worst of all worlds. Too squishy to fight other tanks, but have no mobility so I cant get on backline or fall back effectively is pushed. Not enough damage output to duel another tank or even a beefy dps. Despite being so squishy, I *have* to get close to do any damage, which seems completely backwards to me. I though that the closer you needed to be, the more defensive resources you should have, and when you have to play far, you get less defense. But apparently not the case for Zarya. With only one bubble that can soak only a little bit of damage, I feel slow and defenseless most of the time, with not enough damage output to justify it.

I don’t have nearly as much trouble playing Zarya in 5v5. It very well may be placebo, but I feel like she does a good amount more damage there, and holding space is much much easier with a damage output that people are actually scared of

No replay codes, because I only play Zar in qp, because playing her in ranked feels like throwing lol. If your fine with qp codes though, I can run a few games and post them.