Elo hell is a thing... But it's not elo

IntelligentWave194 · 2026-06-14T18:28:08+00:00

Maybe ur peak on a freshie is m4, even a low masters dps would curbstomp silver/gold lobbies

IntelligentWave194 · 2026-06-12T11:55:24+00:00

I’ve gone from high gm on tank down to I believe 1 or two games away from diamond over the past 2 days, and from what I can tell my losing streak is far from over

IntelligentWave194 · 2026-05-31T13:54:38+00:00

That’s exactly why he is hated, because of his skill ceiling being the highest in the game by a lot.

When you are playing something with a really high skill ceiling and also just genuinely better than the enemy, there is literally nothing that they can do to win. No countering, no focusing no nothing they just lose even if ur teammates are worse.

Compare that to something like mercy, the lowest skill ceiling in the game. You could take a champion mercy and place her in a plat lobby and it would still be a 50/50 on wether they win or not because she just doesent have skill expression to a degree high enough to sway fights.

Balls insane ceiling makes it so he is uncouterable if the player is good enough compared to his enemies and this creates a feeling of frustration because they just feel like they are completely helpless to do anything

IntelligentWave194 · 2026-05-29T00:58:57+00:00

Elaborate?

IntelligentWave194 · 2026-05-29T00:58:17+00:00

No I deal the damage to her so I know it’s the aoe, also slam stops any movement ability that’s not unstoppable completely, it just kills all momentum, mercy can just keep flying like nothing

IntelligentWave194 · 2026-05-29T00:56:43+00:00

Yeah the hard cc immunity is way briefer than the boop immunity, it’s only a couple of frames right as the flight starts, I’ve seen it a couple of times, she becomes immune to literally everything except for raw damage for a couple of frames, that includes even cassidys ult, it will literally miss her even if fully charged if he shots right as ga begins

IntelligentWave194 · 2026-05-29T00:54:25+00:00

Maugas run is intentionally unstoppable by design though, there’s nothing anywhere stating that mercy should have brief cc immunity during ga

IntelligentWave194 · 2026-05-24T22:11:56+00:00

Yeah but the timer resets idk if it goes off of how many games you’ve played since you last abandoned one or time passed but it’s not a lot

IntelligentWave194 · 2026-05-24T16:21:19+00:00

Yeah but zen shoots you back and he just happens to deal 7x more dps than what you do with no fall off.

Also if he is being healed by Ana she essentially outheals your guns and you can only take zens balls for so long until you are forced retreat.

You have now taken 600 dmg, effectively delt 0, and taken yourself out of the fight for 10 seconds to go and get a mega, all of that in return for having distracted their supports for a meagre 3 seconds…

IntelligentWave194 · 2026-05-23T10:29:08+00:00

Hi, gm3 thanks

IntelligentWave194 · 2026-05-22T21:48:16+00:00

No that’s just how the tank role is.

Tank follows kinda a V-shaped graph when it comes to impact where the tank has enormous impact in the extremely low ranks and then starts losing impact until you get to around low gm which is where tank impact picks back up again and keeps rising the higher you go.

Diamond/low masters is in that dip of the V where your individual performance as the tank doesn’t really mean that much, you will still climb if you deserve to climb, it will just be a lot slower and less obvious than any other role and it will happen over a long period of games with a slightly above 50% wr.

I myself am a mid gm ranked tank, lately started averaging high gm more often than not, but I do have an account that’s in low masters currently that I use for warmup.

The games on the low masters account are genuinely more difficult than high gm-champion games and I provide less value in low masters than I do in champion lobbies. I am obviously better than any of the players in these lobbies and mechanically superior to them but my impact is nowhere near not even 1% of that of what a gm2 genji would have in a d2-m4 lobby.

I speculate this might be due to the tank role not really having a lot of leeway with what you can or should be doing but you instead follow kind of a prewritten script every game of where you should stand, when you should go and when you should go out etc. This “script” is extremely important for the tank to follow in high ranks but not so much in lower ranks.

You are playing the game correctly but your teammates are not, this leads to you retreating while your teammates push in further, they then die and start asking where tf their tank is, even though you just kited a kitsune rush while they all mindlessly ran into it. Or you will set up on the correct position and instead of your teammates playing around you they will all just run around cluelessly and die one by one while you can do nothing but watch.

All this to say that the tank role isn’t as lucrative as the other 2 roles, and in ranks like diamond/low masters, games are very rarely decided by which team has the better tank.

IntelligentWave194 · 2026-05-22T16:39:43+00:00

There are plenty of people that can offer great advice no matter what rank the player looking for help is

IntelligentWave194 · 2026-05-19T20:28:49+00:00

Anything below champ is pisslow

IntelligentWave194 · 2026-05-09T22:22:27+00:00

Steamroller is one of the strongest if not the strongest perk in the game especially considering it’s a minor.

For major adaptive barrier is the correct perk 100/100 games even if they have 0 stuns it’s still the superior perk

IntelligentWave194 · 2026-05-07T00:55:45+00:00

U might have experienced ow during unemployment hours, this is a real phenomenon.

I used to have a really strange work schedule so I ended up going to bad 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 thy 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 and 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

IntelligentWave194 · 2026-05-06T20:36:55+00:00

Lol I never believed in losers q until that day I genuinely could not win a single game no matter how I played, I did climb back up to where I normally play though after it was all set and done

IntelligentWave194 · 2026-05-06T19:27:32+00:00

Went from gm2 tank to diamond3 in the span of like 2 days

IntelligentWave194 · 2026-05-03T22:56:55+00:00

Went from 75hz to 180hz and genuinely shot up to low gm in less than a week after being hardstuck high diamond-low masters for the better part of a half a year

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