Why is it so much harder to climb out of bronze than it is to climb to crystal?

[Moonlite]

I've found that Gold is where hope goes to die. You could perform the best you can, you can give it your all, play your job as well as you can, contest the crystal and it will still not matter because your team doesn't understand that kills don't mean shit if you don't play the objectives.

For real. This entire week I've been trying to climb up from Gold 4, managed to reach Gold 3 (right before Gold 2) before I got into a losing spree which brought me back to the bottom from which I haven't been able to climb up from. 1 win 1 loss 1 win 1 loss 2 wins 1 loss 3 wins 3 losses 1 win, etc. It's legit soul-crushing. It's giving elo hell from LoL.

Savor your victories in Silver, and pray that your luck is good enough in Gold to grant you consecutive competent teams for a win streak, because Gold is legit the graveyard of common sense for this game mode.

I had multiple days where I went from 1 win in silver to gold to back to the start. I have been win loss as well in gold right around 50%. Then the RNG blessed me with same PLD multiple matches and then the same ninja multiple matches. The PLD covering bought me the extra time I needed every encounter and the ninja always cleaned up after every tiem I LBed.



Everyone says how god tier whm is, but I must suck. If a MNK, WAR, Ninja, or DRG decide they want to sit on me all game I can barely do anything. Too much CC and can't get enough separation.



Oh also in sliver I have had the joy of being deleted by MCH ten times. I went four games in a row being instant killed. Now I think I have only seen it once in 20 games.

[Deveryn]

Everyone says how god tier whm is, but I must suck. If a MNK, WAR, Ninja, or DRG decide they want to sit on me all game I can barely do anything. Too much CC and can't get enough separation.

That's that propaganda at work. People are scared of what you can do, so they'll focus you.

Don't play WHM and they won't pay you as much attention.

[Risvertasashi]

Everyone says how god tier whm is, but I must suck. If a MNK, WAR, Ninja, or DRG decide they want to sit on me all game I can barely do anything. Too much CC and can't get enough separation.

Like Deveryn said... it can honestly be better to play a job that doesn't get focused, at least for a bit.

Alternatively, if 3 of the enemy team are chasing you, give them the runaround. Take them on a tour across the whole map, and do some laps if they still don't take the hint. This means the rest of your team, playing the objective (hopefully...), is fighting a 4v2. Either your pursuers will pick up on that and eventually return to said objective and then you can actually play, or they won't but you're effectively neutralizing 3 of them, so easy win.

[Moonlite]

Like Deveryn said... it can honestly be better to play a job that doesn't get focused, at least for a bit.

Alternatively, if 3 of the enemy team are chasing you, give them the runaround. Take them on a tour across the whole map, and do some laps if they still don't take the hint. This means the rest of your team, playing the objective (hopefully...), is fighting a 4v2. Either your pursuers will pick up on that and eventually return to said objective and then you can actually play, or they won't but you're effectively neutralizing 3 of them, so easy win.

I always think that. Wow I am kiting these two guys around the map they must be killing it in the middle. Nope they all died even though it was 4 vs 3. I think some people forget they have to heal themselves, full MP zero HP.

I main rpr.
It took me a while to get out bronze but it wasnt that bad. Once out i climbed pretty steadily to diamond.
I have played about 10 matches at diamond and have no wind in my sails to continue trying to reach crystal as reaper. It is SOOOO hard vs crystal players.
I have since lost my motivation to play pvp because i dont want to play a dif job just to win.
I have in turn loss my desire to play the game as a whole.

Honest question, what tier did you think you were? I had set my expectations at around 200 wins and maybe diamond. I am clearly not top 100, on data centre even. I have seen top 100 players and they are just that much better. I feel some of the salt is people had unrealistic expectations for their skill vs other peoples skill. Good luck if you keep trying though.

[Adajer]

I always think that. Wow I am kiting these two guys around the map they must be killing it in the middle. Nope they all died even though it was 4 vs 3. I think some people forget they have to heal themselves, full MP zero HP.





Honest question, what tier did you think you were? I had set my expectations at around 200 wins and maybe diamond. I am clearly not top 100, on data centre even. I have seen top 100 players and they are just that much better. I feel some of the salt is people had unrealistic expectations for their skill vs other peoples skill. Good luck if you keep trying though.

Not sure if im understanding your question. I never thought of myself as a tier or anyone else. I just play. I know I can reach crystal. There is no top 100 players allowed in crystal. You just get there from winning.

I think you are implying a skill issue. No. I have a strong awareness of the game and what I should be doing. Others do to, just on much better jobs that can effectively count my job.

As a rpr versus a smart enemy team, I literally dont get to play 50% of the time. And when I do get to play, I get value out of my kit/timing maybe less.

Its like they all get to hit me with super effective attacks for 5 turns. And all my turns are normal, cc, effective, super effective, super-ise you're dead(unless you get away.)

Not fun or productive.

And because of my personality type, I just lose interest/will to play. Sadness really.