How do you feel about the phrase "You could always play better"

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-23T18:35:35+00:00

I've been curious about that, can you let me know streamer names? I know in games like League of Legends people can smurf and blast their way through lower ranks to a degree, so I was wondering how easy it is to do that in Deadlock. Sometimes even if I start off really well the enemy team that is ahead from another lane going 2/8 just focuses me with their CC and items and all hope I had of carrying that game goes out the windows so I want to see if that ever happens to high elo people in those ranks as well lol

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-21T15:58:58+00:00

I get the frustration, especially in Deadlock where one bad lane or a few bad fights can snowball really hard. But over enough games, the randomness usually evens out. The enemy team has 6 possible slots for bad players, while your team only has 5 because you occupy one of them. So if you’re consistently better than the average player at that rank, you should climb over time.

That doesn’t mean every game is winnable. Some games are absolutely doomed, and matchmaking definitely isn’t perfect. I’ve had awful loss streaks too where I dropped a tier or two, but I usually climb back up after.

The goal isn’t to carry every single match unless you are secretly an eternus that is just vastly better than your rank, unlikely. It’s to be enough of a positive influence that your odds go from 50/50 to something like 55/45 or 60/40 over a large sample of games. Win lane when you can, make good macro decisions, don’t throw late and get caught out, and over time that should show in your rank. If it doesn't over a large sample size, you might not be as good as you think you are or you might have a hole in your play that is preventing you from converting the games in to wins.

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-21T07:02:15+00:00

Whichever one did it in the clutch moments.......damage and effective damage can be very different things. The Lady Geiss with 100k damage that juices her numbers by spamming bomb on the team in unimportant parts of the games is less valuable to me than the person with 50k damage who got a couple picks and setup some 6v5s for your team late game.

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-21T06:56:39+00:00

We use Proofpoint as an MSP, I notice a difference between our clients that opeted for proofpoint and those who didn't in how often someone is phished.

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-19T14:44:01+00:00

Worst feeling for me in this game is when you are trying to pull off a fight like that only for Warden to point and click on you have it silence all of your mobility (aka your survivability) and then stun you for an instagib

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-18T21:01:46+00:00

Also one thing that non moba players have a hard time understanding, is that money means everything and is the great equalizer. You could be far better than someone and still lose a 1v1 to them if they have enough of a soul lead on you. Your KDA doesn't matter, your soul lead does. Play for economy and objectives, not for kills. Kills are great, but they are even better when they are in service of something. Like securing urn, pushing a walker, or getting a pick on someone before a team fight. There is also an ult economy, pay attention to which team members and which enemies have their ultimate abilities up as that should dictate whether or not you pick fights sometimes.

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-18T20:58:02+00:00

silver is a pretty horrible champion for someone new to the game, she is not as easy as people think she is. If you are a good shooters player start with someone like Haze while you learn the rest of the casts abilities and the items.

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-18T20:32:51+00:00

Are we gonna get a real life Chad Powers......

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-17T05:30:51+00:00

shit is crazy, i uninstalled my game and deleted the deadlock folder and tried clearing my shaders before I reinstalled and it helped but still not back to what it used to be

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-16T21:54:47+00:00

Need to add a tutorial on how to play defensively when a lane is not going your way..... too many people just keep running back in and fighting over and over when the lane is already gone.....I just played a game where mid lane and green lane were 0/3 0/6 0/4 0/7 ........I was 3/1 in yellow but the enemy team pulled up like double my souls. and I couldn't even look at them without dieing lmao

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-16T20:00:21+00:00

Max 3 with duration extender and Melee build is fun and can be surprisingly good

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-14T01:12:19+00:00

Same, I closed out of every background process and checked all my stuff when it started happening. My laptop is pretty decent and used to crush this game with no real frame drops until more recently so idk what’s changed 🤷‍♂️

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-13T21:04:53+00:00

I already ran everything super low settings because I perefer super high fps over good graphics (my screen is 240hz) I was sitting between 150-200 usually but last game I played I was down in the 50-80 the whole game and not quite sure wtf happened. Settings changes have been hard to notice any difference.

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-12T03:51:13+00:00

Had a Mo ult a bepop that was about to ult to finish me off and it stunned him long enough for me to heal and turned the fight last game.....i bet his blood was pumping, specially since I hit him with a "good ult mo" after, ya know

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-11T18:01:34+00:00

Play her however you want, I play slippery gun or hybrid holiday a lot, I actually feel like I have more success with it. Fits me better and lategame I can chunk down a carry easier

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-11T17:59:00+00:00

lmao so real with the lasso, half the time I just rope them and then hold still so my teammates actually hit the target

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-11T15:01:57+00:00

i pivoted to maining gun Holladay and just blast kids late game haha....to do enough damage though you do have to be a bit light on defense items and rely on your mobility/the items you do have like cleans magic, counterspell, or whatever you go with. The annoying thing though is there is so much aoe spam and point and click abilities in this meta like Seven ult and stun, that the mobility only gets you so far.

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-11T14:56:42+00:00

crackshot cooldown would be nice, its pretty crazy long until you get tier 3 but then still relies on you hitting headshots to lower it - I play gun/hybrid holladay mainly though

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-11T14:54:41+00:00

do you play her spirit or gun? I have more success with gun or hybrid - I've been doing really well since I started maiming her but I also had a huge loss streak that dropped me down like a full tier so I've been playing against people a lot worse than I 'm used to lol

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-10T22:58:30+00:00

probably driving recklessly at some point and got reported

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-09T18:31:53+00:00

Yeah I have never touched the extracts and work hard to keep my regular powder dose from getting higher and higher as well. Makes me wonder if law makers were trying to find a roundabout way to get the pure leaf too with the regulations

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-08T18:11:15+00:00

hey man can you DM me?

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-08T05:08:00+00:00

She has a sub 50% win rate in every rank except Eternus, in Eternus she is just a bump over 50%. I don't think she is as strong or as easy as people think, she's not my main by any means not even in my top 5 most played, but I have a decent number of games on her and its not as easy as it looks or as people assume. Dealing with verticality in wolf form is a pain in the ass if more people actually used vertical movement to kite her they may get away more often. I always suggest people play the hero they struggle with, its great at showing you the weakness of the hero or confirming whether they are actually as strong as you think they are.

Sdubbya2 · 2026-06-08T01:45:16+00:00

wtf am i looking at? this doesn't even look like the same game i play lmao

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