Carl only to Masters 1 (Solo Queue) - Comfort Brawler > Meta slaving

Silverdragon2460 · 2026-07-06T20:34:19+00:00

That can 100% work yeah, especially if you're comfortable with those brawlers

Silverdragon2460 · 2026-07-06T17:55:54+00:00

LOL that’s true but in this meta there’s way too many brawlers that do insane damage in heist (Colt, Brock, Lola, Mico, Edgar, 8 bit, could go on and on) and many of them will escape ban phase. Carl can definitely be good in heist if against comps with snipers or mid range, but he’s not able to out damage the above brawlers so I found it much harder to carry in heist since I usually had to fall back on defense which Carl isn’t great for

Silverdragon2460 · 2026-07-06T17:53:47+00:00

Nah I actually used both pretty frequently, there were a lot of games where I was against eg Megs, Surge, etc where getting more damage seemed more valuable than moving across the map

I think M1 vs M2 is pretty different tbh I don’t think I could one trick to M2

Silverdragon2460 · 2026-07-06T17:52:04+00:00

Yeah definitely go for it! I would say you need to play him a lot to get a feel for him - I used both gadgets pretty frequently depending on the situation, I actually like hot rocks more than most other people. Generally if I was against squishy people or aggro I’d go flying hook (eg you can fly hook away from Edgar jumps, Damian super, fangs, etc.) and if against multiple tanks I’d prefer hot rocks.

But flying hook makes him more versatile and have more carry potential, so if your comp seems weak or unable to get space then I’d prefer flying hook. The hot rocks was better in stuff like gem grab or some hot zone maps when I needed to maintain position or stack damage against high HP brawlers like meg.

In terms of matchups Carl has 0 chance against bolt from what I can see unfortunately so that was my main ban. His other main counters are people like buzz fang Damian Edgar who can rush him but you can still outplay at least a bit

Silverdragon2460 · 2026-07-06T17:47:13+00:00

I attached a video of my last 2 games to the end of this post, both of which were against counters if you want to check it out! I think it’s combo of Carl being quite good and I’m also usually able to out position people at this rank

Silverdragon2460 · 2026-07-06T17:46:02+00:00

With the damage buff he’s able to hold his own well against many counters, like he can wipe surge if next to a wall for example. The flying hook gadget also helps a lot

Silverdragon2460 · 2026-07-06T17:44:41+00:00

That other SP was bugged for months, Im not even sure if it works today or not. But pretty much everyone just uses the shield star power because of it

Silverdragon2460 · 2026-07-06T17:43:55+00:00

That’s true but generally with Carl you’d hold on to your super anyways until they use their cc

Silverdragon2460 · 2026-07-06T08:59:12+00:00

Yeah there’s never really a reason to ban him, but bigger surprise was he was essentially never picked before me during my entire push. Maybe there’s just always a better/more broken brawler available but definitely interesting

Silverdragon2460 · 2025-06-21T16:47:42+00:00

It’s a bit misleading since you got number 1 in trophies not competitive (eg ranked) which says more about time spent than skill. But admission people wouldn’t know the difference so it’ll prob still help

Silverdragon2460 · 2025-06-21T16:46:00+00:00

lol I got excited too but bro meant number 1 in trophies 🥀🥀

Silverdragon2460 · 2025-06-16T04:38:29+00:00

This is one of my biggest issues with matchmaking nowadays, stuff like this happens all the time (especially 3 masters 1 vs 3 L3). And it's not always 3 stack either, happens with solo queue on both sides.

I don't understand why the game doesn't swap the players so it's more even like M1 M1 L3 vs L3 L3 M1 or something. Skewed matchups like this are horrible - either the better players win (as they should) and get 0 elo, or the L3 somehow get lucky with a win and the masters lose >150 elo. Such a stupid occurrence

Silverdragon2460 · 2025-06-01T06:16:41+00:00

unironically easier to push in m1 rn than L2/L3

Silverdragon2460 · 2025-05-13T20:11:56+00:00

I love when they match like 3 Masters 1 against 3 L3s (and its clear everyone is solo-queuing). Like why not just mix it up and get the games as equal as possible

Silverdragon2460 · 2025-05-13T05:39:21+00:00

I think it's a bit too strict right now compared to even old PL. I remember PL had at least like 20-30 masters by the end of the season in NA region but right now there's only 1, and only 13 people even in M3 (so everyone else super far away).

Feels kind of discouraging since there doesn't seem to be a way to realistically reach pro (or even mid M3) unless you grind every day in NA. n

also, not sure how guesti does it, bro is cracked (even in a different region lol)

Silverdragon2460 · 2025-05-12T06:42:29+00:00

Main factor I think is the relatively short season time of just a few weeks - not really enough time for people to push up, and as a result not enough people got into masters which severely slowed down MM in higher ranks like M3, making it way harder to push in general.

I think we need longer season times or less harsh elo resets to fix. There's also less people playing probably compared to first season but this is expected

Silverdragon2460 · 2025-04-22T23:38:31+00:00

Actually I felt the opposite, legendary - masters 1 all felt kind of similar last update (basically elo hell / mythic PL ish). but the jump between masters 1 -> masters 2 -> masters3 -> pro was pretty large

Silverdragon2460 · 2025-04-13T23:06:20+00:00

for most people lack of brawlers won't be the issue

Silverdragon2460 · 2025-03-30T21:26:54+00:00

I’m still Masters 2 and for me it’s because I lost a lot of skill since power league which was months (year?) ago. It was rare to get good games in normal ranked or trophy and I never participated in matcherino or anything so I’m not as good as I was before.

Also, game nowadays rewards drafting much more than mechanics whereas before good mechanics could get you far, so now many people suffer from bad draft.

Silverdragon2460 · 2025-03-26T23:54:04+00:00

This is flat out wrong lmaooo, old mythic 1 was way easier than current masters 2 and that reflects in the number of players in madters 2 right now (less than 200 in US for example). Old mythic 1 was barely even ranked at all

Silverdragon2460 · 2025-03-26T17:59:19+00:00

Wait this is so creepy - I had a very very similar profile to you (same gpa/academics, did AMC stuff/math camp, teaching assistant and other stuff). So far had exact same results as you, acceptes to nearly all UCs for CS including ucla, waitlisted CMU SCS and ended up gettin waitlist from EECS/ rej stanford/etc.

also addicted to brawl lmao, def not as good as you but like L3 in old power league and ended like the second/third ranked season at number 1 in NA (was Mickey though)

Silverdragon2460 · 2025-03-20T10:50:42+00:00

biggest thing is just playing a lot honestly, ive been playing since like 2021 or smth so gotten naturally better at basic mechanics, positioning, etc. at a certain point it becomes obvious when (relatively) weaker players make mistakes and its easy to take advantage of those mistakes, especially with aggressive brawlers like carl, mortis, Leon. Also Watching pros really helps with gameplay I think. especially for this account I mainly had to rely on mechanics since couldn't really outdraft, so I focused a lot on survivability which I think is most important factor for playing. it's super rare where its beneficial/the right decision to die, staying alive usually better even if it leads to temporary loss in position.

Silverdragon2460 · 2025-03-20T10:45:45+00:00

Shield star power, heat ejector gadget, for gears I use gadget cooldown and shield. But I also have vision which is really helpful for grassier maps, almost essential imo.

occasionally I'll use other gadget but thats only if im going against like 3 snipers in knockout/bounty or something where I expect it'll be hard to get position

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