For context, I have 1200 hours of OW played in total, have been playing since Beta, and only took one time off after OW2 came out because it just felt strange to me. I've since been back, and although I'm having a good time in Quick Play, comp makes no sense to me at all. My previous achievements are FFA Top 500 (389) and played as high as Grandmasters for one season in regular comp play in OW1 with a dedicated team. I have only played against a handful of better Ashe mains as me, and my accuracy is always in the 40% range.. I rarely miss. My death to kill ratio, kills, accuracy, are all in the range of someone who plays comp at a masters level. I'm very consistent and rarely get caught. If anyone watched me play on twitch and youtube, those videos are out there and I'm proud of them.
Today I entered comp for initial testing thinking I would land in Diamond somewhere, as I've been putting in the hours lately, I'm a Moira support main, and I'm not the best with identifying the new characters and such, so expected a little less. I won my first round and... Gold 4. Gold 4? Why would it put me in Gold? From what I read, legacy comp rankings have something to do with future placements. I crush in QP, and those players are all ranked pretty high. The very next game in the test I lost, and the players were noticeably worse than my first game. No one on Mic now at all, bad playing style, sometimes just not playing.. it was all over the place. The next 8 games were all losses as well, so I'm at the end of Gold, stuck. My heals are off the charts, my kills top the tank and DPS every game, and even with that I proceeded to lose the next 4 games, taking yet another demotion.
What gives? I now have to play with players that are on a different skill level entirely, and in a rank where people treat it like QP. Two games people left on my team, and we just had to stick out the loss. This never happened in the higher ranks, everyone gave it their best and communicated. I'll be honest, I'm just not use to this.
For shits and giggles I went on my sons OW2 account, only around level 15, and maybe played two games 5+ years ago with zero comp. I did the tests and was put in Diamond right away. DPS testing I was put into Platinum. Immediately the level of play changed, I could easily find my way and was around experienced players. Went back to normal account account, starting testing DPS and it and put me in Silver 1. I thought I was a super hero! I'm making crazy plays, carrying, just running around and slaying at will. I won the next few, but here iam, now stuck in Gold again overplaying. The chat is downright toxic at Silver & Gold, does not matter if I have 23 kills in one round of 3 with zero deaths, 3 different players in the chat call me out for "Bad DPS". The other DPS in that game scored two kills over 5 rounds, but targeted me. I think I'm done with OW2 comp for quite a while until they can figure out a better way to judge skill, or I'll wait for a patch and give it another go.
**Edit** Played four DPS comp games tonight, Gold 4, 4/21/25. Three losses by a huge margin, all three games lost there appeared to be a smurf on the their team healing which was strange and really stood out. I played my best, got top kills, but the team selection was all over the place, chat toxic, and had to turn my mic off because someone was making clicking sounds and singing spanish music. One game, the first one I played, was a push map and everyone was great, both teams. Felt like a masters game to be honest. Great coms, huge pushes, awesome ults, I felt good losing since we played such a great game. So all over the place. The only way to play comp (and the only way I got as far as I did before) is to have a team of people you know who have a specialty and are on coms at all times.
**Edit Part 2** 5/4/25 It's been two weeks since this post, and I gave it another go, and its WORSE. Way worse, as bad as it's ever been. The front page of reddit is a buzz with the issue, and it's making climbing out of bad placements impossible. I'm now after just a few games in high silver. The last 4 games were 100% steam rolls. Previous to that we lost 75% of the games and they were not even close; the other 25% we just steamrolled the opposing team. 12 games, and zero really good matches at all. People not leaving spawn, other team is obviously on another level with one or two strong characters. I starting snooping the players, and some of them are in their first comp game ever, just plowing people. Smurfing? Poor matching making? I have no idea any more. Comp is no longer fun, and the performance issues of Stadium caused me to quit after one match. Either I stop playing for a few years like I have done before, or just have fun in QP and not worry. The stress of having to perform well and make up for terrible players in bad games in comp is no longer worth it. I use to like being in High Plat on DPS, hang around there and go up and down a little. The climb in Diamond was super stressful and required all my attention and full mic up at all times with no one in the room with me, which is at a premium these days, so it was fun to hover in high plat. No leavers in plat, everyone communicates hero choices. Anyway, this rant is now over, and I think it's uninstall for a few more years and play indie games.
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