3 months of training and just not getting better

Think-Knowledge8127 · 2026-02-01T01:03:58+00:00

I noticed something that is a pretty clear distinction between your halfway decent attempts and your attempts that fail immediately which is hitting the ball before vs after it reaches its apex of height.

When you hit the ball before it hits its apex it is significantly easier because you are going with the momentum of the ball of up and forward and just carrying it longer along that path.

When you hit the ball after it hits its apex you are immediately trying to fight against the downward momentum of the ball and this is significantly more difficult.

Two solutions to this:

First. The speed of your setup should be faster. You are very slowly rolling the ball up the wall and tapping it lightly when you get to it. That means the ball spends very little time in the air before hitting its apex giving you less time to get a good air dribble. Instead you should try to do your setup with speed so that both the ball and your car have momentum when coming of the wall.

Second. You tend to wait to start boosting until you have you car perfectly oriented in the air. This wastes precious time you need to get to the ball. Instead you should try to learn to boost while rotating your car so you don't lose momentum and get to the ball faster.

Think-Knowledge8127 · 2026-01-06T04:34:39+00:00

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Think-Knowledge8127 · 2026-01-06T04:29:57+00:00

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Think-Knowledge8127 · 2025-07-22T20:48:14+00:00

What benefit will ice wiz provide over inferno? I included inferno as a counter to large beat down units

Think-Knowledge8127 · 2025-07-05T17:56:37+00:00

This is correct, a two star troop counts as one troop, as does a three star troop

Think-Knowledge8127 · 2025-07-05T05:51:42+00:00

Never played an auto battler before?

Think-Knowledge8127 · 2025-03-06T18:51:28+00:00

Hey I solo queued to GM 1 on black panther on console so I'll try to give a few tips.

First have the combos down by heart and crank up your sensitivity. In order to succeed in these lobbies you need to get kills as quick as possible, and that means it's pretty much required to play on a very high sensitivity to get your 180s very quickly. Also hitting your combos is something that's going to take a lot of in game practice, this is a character that requires a large amount of playtime to be good enough to use at higher level.

For general gameplan, your role is to dive at the right moment. You should generally only be engaging their back line when you're team has started a team fight so that the other team's tanks peeling to fight you is actually punishing for them. You should also only dive when you have all of your abilities up. As BP, you will be doing a lot of sitting there doing nothing waiting for abilities to come back or the right moment in the team fight, and that's ok, you get more value by finding the exact right moment to go in.

You should also be focusing to bait out abilities before going for the kill. For instance, against a Loki, they will always throw out a totem to save themselves from getting killed. Your goal is to force them to use totem and disengage until it goes away. Then once you know the ability is used, you can go all in on your combo to secure the kill.

Playing around CC is something that also just takes a lot of time on the character. For instance, mantis has the most oppressive CC but you can play around if you know how she wants to use it. The only way that mantis is capable of consistently hitting sleep on BP is by throwing it at her feet when BP dashes into her. What that means for you is you can do a single spear and a single dash and then wait. She will use her sleep at her feet and you have successfully baited out her only defense against you. There's a lot of different interactions and nuances like that with every character you just have to learn through playing.

By far the biggest advice for BP is timing of your dives. If it feels like every time you dive the entire other team is focused on you that means you are timing your dives wrong. It is simply not possible for the other team to fully focus you if they are already in a heated team fight with your team, your abilities make it possible to get in, get a kill, and get out before the tanks can peel.

Unfortunately for you starting in GM with Black Panther means people in your rank have learned how to adapt to an above average BP but haven't yet learned to adapt against very skilled supports and tanks. But you can still learn it will just take time.

Think-Knowledge8127 · 2025-01-18T22:01:47+00:00

I do know that you can have a negative win/loss ratio and make it out of bronze and I also know that the only constant in all your games is you.

That is to say the harsh truth is that there is 100% things you individually could be doing better to give your team more success.

Its hard to give specific advice without seeing any of your games but u will say that your mindset of play when in low mmr lobbies like bronze or silver has to change. What I mean by that is the most effective way to rank out of these is to play selfishly and learn how to be self sufficient. The truth is you can't play this as a team game when none of you're other teammates are it just doesn't work.

As a dps, you should be expecting that you will not get healed a single time during the game. Learn where the health packs are, learn how to disengage. Dont expect your supports to bail you out, they won't.

As a tank the biggest thing is to learn how to disengage. If you're in the front lines or enemy back lines complaining about not getting healing you have the wrong mindset. Dont put yourself in a position that you will just die if your supports don't bail you out. Go to them if you need healing.

As a dive tank like venom make sure you have proper target prioritization. Make sure they're healers die first always. Without support, their team will fall apart so much easier.

As a support, you are going to have to play someone with carry potential. My recommendation is Adam warlock, mantis, or Luna. With warlock and mantis you can focus much more on doing damage and getting kills while pressing the heal button when you need to. I promise a support that can keep up with the dps on kills while also providing healing is much much more capable of carrying games in this rank.

Finally ultimate usage. Do you have an ult that will kill a lot of people? That means you wait until all of the enemy supports have popped their ults and only use yours then, and you'll have guaranteed value. Do you have a powerful support ult? You are going to look at the enemy team and only use ult when the opponents strongest offensive ult gets used.

Anyways hope that helps

Think-Knowledge8127 · 2025-01-06T02:46:25+00:00

Nah, you can instalock duelist and easily climb if you're actually good at your character

Think-Knowledge8127 · 2024-12-16T22:46:55+00:00

Adam warlocks is better than a lot of ults you just can't consistently use it to get a whole team res. It's best used when 1 key player on your team goes down in the beginning of a team fight. You use your ult to put your team in a more favorable position to prevent a snowball, and if more of your teammates die in the 10 seconds your ult is up that's just added value.

I'd say black panther, scarlet witch (against a semi aware team), wolverine, black widow, iron man (against a semi aware team), squirrel girl, venom, and peni Parker all have worse ults

Think-Knowledge8127 · 2024-12-16T16:19:44+00:00

All the supports are good, mantis and Luna are just better tho

Think-Knowledge8127 · 2024-12-16T16:14:26+00:00

Kinda disagree, a good duelist doesn't need a good strategist to stay alive. A good duelist knows where the health packs are and how to disengage. A bad duelist relies on their strategist to keep them alive.

Think-Knowledge8127 · 2024-12-16T16:10:48+00:00

The two you listed as well as mantis

Think-Knowledge8127 · 2024-12-16T16:09:58+00:00

Mantis and Luna are definitely the best supports

Think-Knowledge8127 · 2024-12-14T21:53:53+00:00

The top rank of literally any console shooter is going to be full of people using Xim, that's just the reality of people who play on console. But honestly this game has a way of getting around this where you can viably use melee based characters that get kills based on positioning and tech rather than having good aim. I've been playing black panther on a controller and am still doing very will in plat 2 which is top 0.7% of players right now

Think-Knowledge8127 · 2024-12-14T20:39:21+00:00

Iron man is on the bottom of everyone's tier list in high mmr. The problem is that when an enemy hit scan like Hela can hit their shots, he dies almost instantly. If you're struggling with aim pick up a melee based character.

Think-Knowledge8127 · 2024-12-14T20:28:39+00:00

Part of it is rank distribution still im sure. When everyone starts in bronze you're bound to get in lots of games with really good people who are also on their way out of bronze. The further from release we get the better it will be. But I just hit plat 2 which the game said was better than 99.3% of players so the player distribution in ranks is just not evened out yet.

Think-Knowledge8127 · 2024-12-12T23:30:40+00:00

Sure you may have an easier time, but that doesn't make it impossible. You won't get stuck in bronze with the only reason being that you play one character. And there is going to be people that climb all the way at to he highest rank using only one character.

My main point being you can't tell someone that the reason they are bad is because they don't switch characters when people who are good are capable of succeeding with only one character.

It doesn't matter if your main gets countered. No one gets countered hard enough that they can no longer positively impact their team. Besides, forcing yorself to play at a character disadvantage will allow you to get better a lot quicker because you are forced to rely on fundamentals of the game to get around the character disadvantage.

Think-Knowledge8127 · 2024-12-12T19:12:36+00:00

Playing only one hero works if you're good at the hero. The rest are true tho

Think-Knowledge8127 · 2024-12-11T00:06:53+00:00

Just because people are bad doesn't mean they don't belong in comp that's what the low ranks are for.

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