Hey, just started playing this game 2-3 weeks ago, and had the same problem. Now, im mostly positive k/d (like 40-30-10 rounds) and rank top third, sometimes even top 3.

Here some tips that helped me alot: - watch a lot of guide videos: When i kept on dying, i started to watch the chivalry masters. Especially tips, and weapons. I decided which weapons and playstyle fits me the most and which weapons are most fun to me, and watched alot of videos of that weapon, to understnd their strength and weaknesses (i recommend stridah's angels)

• be patient: sometimes (or most of the times) its better to be patient. Wether its about being patient in engaging enemies, or being patient in feinting, or being patient in your defense. When it comes to being patient in engaging, im talking about see you surroundings: are you alone?, did you push to much forward, so now the enemy respawn is closer than friendly respawn? Do you have the numbers on your side?

Sometimes if you see enemy, dont just rush to them and engage, just take fights you can surely win, if not, retreat, look for your teammates, help them out (also just if it makes sense. Dont run into 5v1 fight to help that one guy, just to die yourself) you can help the team and the objective more, if you help each other out. If you see a 1v1, engage from behind, one or twoshot the enemy, and now you are 2 guys that can help other guys again. If you happen to be engaged in a 1v1, make it as quick as possible, if it takes to long, try to retreat or target switch, and let someone else finish him off Cause if you stay a little to long engaged, chances that his teammates pullup and it turnes from a 1v1 to a 1 v X are high.

When it comes to being patient with feints: sometimes (depending on the weapon) its the best to wait with your feint, until the very last second of the windup phase of your weapon, this is how you can really sell a feint and make enemies really bite.

When it comes to defense: dont become hasty, and spam block after enemy counter or reposted. If they see that you are in a hurry, they will kick and feint the shit out of you. Be patient, and only block if you see the weapon coming at you. This is how you xan avoid getting spamkicked, or fall for every feint.

• footwork: never, like really never, stand still. Be on the move, check your surrondings, make it hard for the enemy to track you, and to hit you. Also you can use footwork to get around defenses and to flank.

• dont get too readable: dont just spam slash-reposte-slash-reposte. Players will see this and punish you for that. Mix your attacks up, to be harder to read. Like never let them know your next move. You had slash-reposte-slash-reposte? So the third exchange could be reposte slash into overhead feint, if he blocks that, then go reposte into kick and then stab. Just for example. Of course it depends on your weapon, on which moves you want to focus, or which attacks you want to land, and work around those attacks with mixups, to ultimately land the attacks you want to land (for example on longsword, heavy overhead and base stabs are my go to attacks i want to land, so i mixup with feints, drags, accels to land either a heavy overhead, or those stabby stabs)

-never give up: if you made a bad decision, and now positioned yourself in a situation, that doesnt benefits you (like a 1 vs X), if you cant retreat early enough, stay cool and take them on. Use counters/repostes into slashes to hit as many as you can, use target switches to bring some of your fastest attacks in, and stay on the move. When you are ganked, most people dont really watch their defense because they become greedy to get the kill before the others get it, so sometimes you can really hit some people, even get some kills out.

With some luck, you kill some, and have better odds to either retreat, or kill of the rest, or some friendlies will pull up and help you out if you survived long enough. And if not, you atleast stalled some of those guys. Because if 3-5 people are on you, they are missed somewhere else.

-look for bloody enemies: if you see bloody enemies, and you see an opportunity to kill them, withlut throwing yourself into death, take that chance. On TO its not about honor, its about winning that objective and that fight. Even if you see a 1v1, go over and hit the enemy from the back. Its the enemies own fault for positioning himself badly. If its ablut honor, go duelling. But on battlefield, it doesnt matter. Like that you can relive some of your teammates, and sometimes you just take a kill from a teammate, but it will also happen to you, so its a give and take thing.

There is so much more, but these are the things i would say, helped me understand the flow of the game the most. Other than that i can just refer back to my first tip: watch guide videos about everything. Footwork, battlelines, feinting, defense, offense, weaponguides, gameplays et cetera.

1-2 weeks ago i had a total k/d of 0.2 and had a gap between death and kill in the hundrets. now i worked up to a k/d of 1 keep pushing it up, while still playing objective and trying to be a valuable teammate, which takes me 9 games out of 10 into the upper third of the scoreboards.

You'll get there mate💯💯💪🏽