u/Worth_Video4523

I really dont understand what it is about this game, but I have lost almost 20 games in a row, and only now finally broke it. I have zero explanation as to why, but I've dropped 2 full ranks and am still losing. I dont even know if its possible to get so unlucky, but I want to share some VODS because I have no clue what I could possibly be doing wrong.

Previous loss, Midtown: VPKPR2

Most recent win, New Junk City: JSYJ6S

Battletag is Carrion, playing Cassidy both games. Plat 3.

I am having a miserable time with playing Comp right now, and for whatever reason, I don't have this problem in quickplay, EVEN THOUGH my QP MMR is HIGHER than my comp mmr. My comp mmr is sitting at Diamond 5-4 and my qp mmr is like low Diamond to high Masters (i check career profiles whenever i can just to gauge the match).

But my Diamond games in comp are just so awful and I have so much anxiety over losing rank progress, maybe I'm just more aware of it but it feels like I have much worse teammates and honestly worse coordination in comp. I don't know if its a mental thing or if I have just gotten unlucky or what.

I don't know if this is worth asking because I get that people maybe don't try as hard in quickplay (it feels like they do, and I know I do) but I did this when I was having bad games in both Gold and Plat. I just played a ton of quickplay and watched guides on Youtube and started decimating these lobbies to get to Diamond after placing like, Silver 4. Which I think was just me getting screwed over because the last time I did placements I was like high Gold to low Plat or something.

I feel like I have cracked mechanics for a Diamond player. I main Cass and usually finish games with like 60-65% accuracy and right around 20% crit accuracy) and it seems like I win 80%+ of my 1v1s but I don't think I have the awareness or mental reflexes (regarding positioning) to carry in Diamond yet. This is probably stupid and I've just had an unlucky batch of games, but I seriously just want to improve as much as I can before I go back to comp because Diamond is so sososososo miserable and unfun. Thanks.

Also, I play Zen on support and am Diamond 1 and obviously regularly get placed in Masters lobbies where I do fine. So, maybe I just need to play more? But I really don't want to until I build the confidence.

I am having a miserable time with playing Comp right now, and for whatever reason, I don't have this problem in quickplay, EVEN THOUGH my QP MMR is HIGHER than my comp mmr. My comp mmr is sitting at Diamond 5-4 and my qp mmr is like low Diamond to high Masters (i check career profiles whenever i can just to gauge the match).

But my Diamond games in comp are just so awful and I have so much anxiety over losing rank progress, maybe I'm just more aware of it but it feels like I have much worse teammates and honestly worse coordination in comp. I don't know if its a mental thing or if I have just gotten unlucky or what.

I don't know if this is worth asking because I get that people maybe don't try as hard in quickplay (it feels like they do, and I know I do) but I did this when I was having bad games in both Gold and Plat. I just played a shit ton of quickplay and watched guides on Youtube and started decimating these lobbies to get to Diamond after placing like, Silver 4. Which I think was just me getting screwed over because the last time I did placements I was like high Gold to low Plat or something.

I feel like I have cracked mechanics for a Diamond player. I main Cass and usually finish games with like 60-65% accuracy and right around 20% crit accuracy) and it seems like I win 80%+ of my 1v1s but I don't think I have the awareness or mental reflexes (regarding positioning) to carry in Diamond yet. This is probably stupid and I've just had an unlucky batch of games, but I seriously just want to improve as much as I can before I go back to comp because Diamond is so sososososo miserable and unfun. Thanks.

Also, I play Zen on support and am Diamond 1 and obviously regularly get placed in Masters lobbies where I do fine. So, maybe I just need to play more? But I really don't want to until I build the confidence.

what am i missing

I'm not sure what I personally was expecting during the anniversary event, but it seems like most people are also disappointed. I didn't think anything of it at first since it was my interpretation that Blizzard releasing 10 heroes in the same year was specifically for the anniversary, not whatever event they'd halfass in an hour.

But I don't get why Blizzard (and companies like Blizzard), so consistently make such stupid decisions. Obviously, if they asked the community before they did anything they'd come off as an "insecure brand" or whatever, but genuinely how did they think releasing this event was going to go??

We've seen so much success out of Team 4 recently and I think it's such a shame for something like this, what is supposed to be a big cause for celebration be sullied by such a lackluster event. I think it has got to be some kind of internal thing where there's just some sort of disconnect between each team, and this is the team responsible for monetization just totally dropping the ball, but I don't know. Coming off of the new Season 1 changes, focusing on the story, tons of new heroes including long desired ones, overall great game balance, lots of quality-of-life updates, more responsive to feedback, and stuff like fixing Anran's face, it's really upsetting that they would handle the tenth anniversary so recklessly.

I think there are lots of directions they could have gone that would have been better, they realistically did not have to put any effort into it all and people would be satisfied. It would be as easy as giving out 10 free legendary loot boxes a week (for playing 50-100 games or whatever) and people would be playing the shit out of the game each week getting each box. They had no reason to make these frankly ugly skins that nobody asked for and are not interesting enough to satisfy people anyway. Point is, out of a million possible options, they picked the absolute worst one. Made all these unnecessary skins and provided virtually no incentive to play the game.

I personally think it's pretty upsetting, but I'm still remaining faithful that the dev team will continue to maintain the game mostly as normal, obviously we're still getting 4 new heroes in the next 8 months, which is something to look forward to. I am seeing a lot of people saying the devs have just killed all the momentum they worked to build, which I think is a bit of an exaggeration, but it really is a slap in the face to the playerbase that a random collab with a basketball player treated them much better than the 10th anniversary of such a massive game.

I'm hoping, maybe naively, that Blizzard more specifically the Overwatch team, will stop doing such dumb shit and shooting themselves in the foot while they're ahead, and realize that the people who play their game can recognize a lack of effort, and even despite that are not difficult to satisfy (at least at large). Hopefully, it'll be a good opportunity to build back some PR and give back a bit better (I've heard people say a 1 day skin amnesty, which would be an unbelievably good decision from a business perspective) and get some more community representatives when it comes to events and monetization.

Dva is obviously ridiculous right not and Blizzard is yet to do anything to nerf her even though shes been dominating in comp and is played extremely frequently in pro play. I'm wondering if anybody has any solution on dealing with her in the meantime because she is ridiculously oppressive.

She is one of the only characters I personally am consistently having issues with, and it genuinely feels like I'm forced to just play Mei or something, like Dva seriously feels like she has zero true weaknesses, especially with tank counters, where Zarya is the only tank "counter" for her. But Zarya has terrible mobility and still gets shit on on certain maps.

So, we have a tank with virtually zero weaknesses, great damage, one of the best movement abilities in the game, negates all damage, has 2 healthbars and an ult that full heals, and can do every one of those things simultaneously. I don't know how to deal with it (as DPS).

What do you guys think?