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▲ 1 r/SilverMainsDeadlock+1 crossposts

I worked so hard just to get acolyte 4 (iron).

So I have played deadlock since release, now I don't know if this is the reason, but when I first started, I wasn't very good, as most people could relate since Deadlock is not an easy game to pick up on. All of my friends got into ranked over the last few months and in an effort to play with them I tried to lock in on standard mode and learn some core characters. I am usually pretty highly ranked in games (GM in Overwatch, Rivals, League, etc), but this game seemed to think I was playing at an Iron level.

Now I am not saying I deserve Gold or even Platinum, but I think I deserve to be where my friends are at in Silver, but now I have to grind through bronze and pretty much all of silver to be able to play with them. Some of them even went 2-6 in their placement games and got placed Silver. I don't really understand this, but I am already sick of solo queue climbing in other games and I'm afraid Deadlock is going to give me that same experience and I am going to be hardstuck in Bronze while my friends all duo queue with each other to higher ranks.

It's just quite disheartening. I am in no way trying to make this an ego post about how good I am, I genuinely have a lot to improve on, but I did not think that I was deserving of this placement, so I guess with this post I just wanted to see if there were anyone else in similar positions or could give me some hope based on my 8 matches (which are all included), and let me know where I could improve or just in general why anyone thinks I was placed here. (My friends are saying it's because it's taken the rank it thought I would be from when ranked came out, and I was wayyy behind my friends in skill level at that time because I wasn't as consistent as I am now, and nowhere near as consistent as they were.)

Thanks so much in advance if anyone has any tips or insight!

u/xKiWiYTx — 3 days ago
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I'm starting to think surge on Silver might be the play

Had a fun moment where i was able to pop quickly with surge and berserker carried me the rest of the fight

u/Sweet-Salt1 — 4 days ago
▲ 76 r/SilverMainsDeadlock

Abrams main learning Silver, I'm starting to get it...

Tankbuster is a godsend for getting into the wolf form faster

u/Matty_HAM — 4 days ago
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Is there any good way to get rid of the minions as Silver?

I am new to Deadlock, and to MOBAs in general. I have been enjoying playing Silver a lot, but one thing I noticed is how hard it is to clear waves with her.

Am I missing something? Is there any item that makes it easier to kill the minions? Should I just run around breaking boxes and leave the waves for my partner?

Also, what do I do when the base is full of minions breaking my shrines? I've been heavy meeleeing them instead of shooting but even then it takes so fucking long.

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u/Roquepauleira — 4 days ago
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Stacking mechanic? I.e. Vindicta, Drifter, etc.

I'm not sure how they could do something that's different from Drifter, and kills during ult makes almost 0 sense since at least 90% of your KP in a game is from ult, but if they're going to keep her as a snowball character rather than having any scaling whatsoever then ??? maybe an option.

Only "reasonable" idea I have would be having something related to enemy boons scaling similarly to how Mo and K's bonus HP from ult scaling works on their boons?

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u/Matoozeusz — 4 days ago
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Feeling incredibly unsure about what to even do against the new heroes (+ Kelvin) + Unsure how to not just end up slotlocked and useless

Rat King simply lives better, Baba makes spirit spike pointless, kelvin decreases fire rate down to levels that makes me wish to never play the game again. Is there anything that I could even reasonably do against all three?

Part of that too is that I have genuinely no idea how to even generically itemise anymore outside of them. resto, CQ, stalker and slowing for spike and then replacing stalker for berserker and upgrading slowing into weighted, selling resto and CQ gives slots.

Greens are so fucking hard, lifestrike is real and mid-fight sustain is just nice, healing booster upgrading from extra regen is nice (And I think upgrades are very important for needing to keep tempo up), and lifestrike can give access to healing tempo which feels good, needing at least one mobility (stam mas, resto locket or warp stone) + healbane because You Need Antiheal, and obviously either counterspell or dispel is also practically a requirement every game.

Adding debuff reducer for the mandatory unstop (+ debuff res just being so important), and I feel like I can't reasonably keep any spirit items in (not like they're even worthwhile when Baba just reduces your spirit power to 0 so you lose your scaling on kick and claws attack speed)

So just like, what's an awoo to even do? I feel so lost in building anything since I feel like I need so many different things to just be able to fight anything after lane, which is annoying me since I felt like I was doing okay before the new heroes, and she's doing well numberswise so it's probably not actually a hero strength problem like it was for the comeback meta? Like, Silver is good now, so I don't know why I feel so bad now.

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u/Matoozeusz — 5 days ago
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We are back to not being picked in Night Shift! (Good?…)

I honestly think this is good news for us! My worry with her getting picked again recently (admittedly by her one tricks) was that she’d appear to be in a better state than she really is. Pre-City Never Sleeps she was still sitting at a sub 50% win rate in all ranks, and although I think she is close to being ‘there’, as it were, I think it’s clear that she needs a little more in the power department. (Ideally giving her ult some sustain/tankiness back!!!)

u/Jaden_2k — 13 days ago
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Question on Silver Build experimentation

https://preview.redd.it/5e2s2i80v4th1.png?width=1703&format=png&auto=webp&s=4303bf26af89eb7049fbfc3d8cb0fcc52a799f39

I kinda got bored of the standard builds for silver, this isn't anything break out but i have been wondering about some shit, i have some ideas in this build ID:838775 i made, but i would like a discussion on some stuff.

Healing Booster, is it still good? I remember it used to be when Lycan Curse was on a 20s cooldown but nowadays?

Stalker or Torment Pulse, or both? I think Stalker kinda does the same Torment Pulse does but better for Silver.

Mystic Shot, i wonder if it's alright after spirit spike?

Life-strike good?

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u/jim_tnt — 12 days ago
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Struggling against Rem...

For reference I'm a loser Silver onetrick. And yes, I'm aware he"s a chicken sandwich. But how do I counter this little bastard? He gets souls so damn fast and it's basically madatory to buy spirit resilience by midgame if you don't want him to take half your health bar with a single pillow. He's basically invulnerable in lane too because he can jump from minion to minion faster than I can shoot him. I've been consistently soloed by rem in most games I have been 1v1ing recently against him.

I'm tired of spending half an hour farming before I get to play the game...

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u/Sav-vie — 12 days ago
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Apparently Silver has a super fast farm now

This’ll be interesting to see play out. Don’t know how much of a difference it’ll make, but I’ll definitely remember it for my games

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u/ValendyneTheTaken — 14 days ago