u/IntelligentWave194

How come when I play the game a lot, I end up being a lower rank than when I play less?

If I play around 35 competitive tank games a day for weeks, not only does my rank fluctuate a lot, but it usually averages out around low Masters. But if I limit myself to around 10 comp games a day at most, I’ll maintain something like a 90% win rate until I reach low to mid GM, which is also where I stay if I continue playing fewer than 10 games a day.

I only play tank in 5v5, and this genuinely doesn’t make sense to me. Which of these would actually be considered my true rank?

This has been a consistent experience for me throughout the years I’ve played this game, so I know for a fact that this is how it works for me.

Overwatch during unemployment hours, this is a real phenomenon.

I used to have a really strange work schedule so I ended up going to bed 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 that 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, they lurk like gremlins and sleep while you are awake. 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, I mean I’m living proof.

Same day I locked in my new sleep schedule I won like 15 games in a row and got to gm4 which is approximately the rank I bounce around for the past couple months, and these games feel like the same difficulty level the low masters games felt during unemployment hours.

If you ever have the chance to queue competitive ow at 7am on a Tuesday give it a chance you’ll meet some interesting life forms for some reason they are all very talkative

I always see diamond and below players complaining about and talking about flashpoint as if it’s the worst thing this game has ever seen, why is this? I noticed above diamond it starts becoming one of the players favourite game modes but then whenever I get into champ lobbies they also seem to dislike it lol but not to the same degree low ranked players do