Is competitive gaming a mistake if you don't have friends

>>389271216
Competitive gaming is always a mistake unless you can bank money off of it.

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>>389271216
The next poster will be a brapfag.

Who is this braphog?

>>389271216
boy or girl?

>>389271216
>won 3 out of 10 placement matches
>get diamond

I was hoping for silver tbqh

>>389271216
Benis?

>>389271216
Yes

>>389271765
Yes

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>>389271601
>>389271661

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>>389271216
PlayFightan

>>389271321
I spent way too much time playing and the best I could do is in the 1000s (still bronze)

I just don't think it's worth it anymore, I'm putting that many hours into the game and trying to be a better player. Socially I'm retarded and I've never been good at keeping friends so I don't think a team based game is logical to continue playing on competitive.

I won 7 matches, 1 draw and 2 losses. I was doing good getting up to 1160 after placement but then the bad skills of other teams brought me in the 1000s.

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>>389271601
>>389271661

>>389271765
girl, it's otohime.nami

>>389271930
I actually just bought Tekken 7 a few days ago, I haven't gotten into yet.

I got top 500 playing alone

You don't need a team if you're good enough

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>>389271601
NANI?!

>>389271930
This is pretty much the answer. A lot of people like to say RTS is the one on one genre but that shit is dead as fuck compared to most fighting games

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>>389271601
>>389271661
HOW THE FUCK!?

quick /v/ I need your best amateur group sex video links before I get b& for some bs reason again

>>389272069
>girl
dang

>>389271661
>>389271601
NANI!??

Competitive gaming is a mistake for a multitude of reasons, but that is one.

Imagine trying to draft a pro football/soccer team, except all of your players are chosen blindly. They're all pro players, except you're going to end up with a lineman playing QB, or the goalie playing attack.
Now take that scenario, except all the players are amateurs and if they're playing outside their niche they'll fail horribly. Now you have competitive gaming

I have fun those matches where everyone picks a hero that benefits the team and we speak to eachother on voice chat and joke together.

but most matches with randoms are 5 dps because every retard wants to be like their favorite twitch shitter

>>389272112
you're saying you can one man army your way in overwatch?

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>>389271825
>play with friends
>get mid diamond
>they get bronze+silver
>blame lag, shitty randoms, bad system, imba mercy, fucking doomfist
>they cant que with me anymore

be glad. you beat the average trashcan test.

>>389271601
>>389271661
samefag

>>389271216
Not if you play solo games that take actual skill like Starcraft, Quake or Fighting games

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>>389271661
I-IMPOSSIBLE

>>389272312
This is how I feel right now

>>389272441
Look at the time anon, within 30 seconds, you'd have to be pretty autistic to set this up from 2 IPs

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>>389271954
Whenever I see people saying they're trying to improve but are still in Bronze, I always wonder: exactly what are you doing to try to improve? Are you just pouring in the hours, or what's the strategy here?

>>389271601
>>389271661

>>389272620
It's pretty easy to do if you have a phone. Takes five seconds and as much effort as it takes to type a few letters and hit "send".

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>>389271601
>>389271661

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>>389272441
fuck

>>389271601
>>389271661
>next post was a nearly a minute apart
*yawn*

>>389272739
not him but wouldn't climbing out of bronze prove that you have gotten better as a player? I mean you still have to hope you don't get completely retarded teammates but it's nice to have goals

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>>389272441
Caught me.

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>not having friends

what's a not dead fightan?

>>389272905
>>389273043
samefag

>>389271216
If you try to play a team game seriously then yes. Only solution otherwise is:
>Play 1v1 game
But most people will then blame the game for their loss i.e:
>I just lost that 1v1 Quake game because of lag!
>Fighting games are random!
and so on.

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>>389272278
>being a faggot

your shit life tho

>>389273171
That was the fun and stressful thing about Starcraft 1v1. Nobody to blame but yourself.

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>>389271601
>>389271661
At last I truly see

>>389273179
Better than being a frog posting beta

>>389272429
same except my shitty diamond friend and me in master

>>389271216
>competitive gaming
>no team
not possible unless youre playing a 1v1 game, and even then you need a group of people at the same skill level with the same mindset to practice with

grinding your MMR isnt playing competitively either, the only purpose of MMR is to give you an idea of when youre ready to start looking for a team and play in open tournaments/leagues

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>>389271601
>>389271661
N-NANIIIII?

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>>389273171
That mentality is only a modern trait. People used to try git gudder before the flood gates opened and everyone panders to casual always wanna win babies

>>389273289
I enjoy that, too, I got really aggressive playing BF2142 back when it was more popular.
>Titan console 1 gets killed
>Write in chat: Defend!
>Console 2 blows up 30 seconds later
>Write again in all caps.
>Console 3 gets fucked a minute later, I have already died multiple times
>Spam chat as Console 4 dies
>"Dude it is just a game".
>Yes, and you suck at it!
I couldn't play that game anymore. This would never happen in football or any other face to face sport. Online team games only work if the whole playerbase is seriously autistic, like with Supcom.

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>>389273020
Sure, your rank is a rough representation of your general proficiency at the game, so climbing out of any rank is indicative that you're supposed to be above that rank. You're going to have retarded teammates at every rank because humans are just terrible by default, but if you're the only constant in a sea of variables, you will theoretically reach your correct rank given enough games. That is, of course, assuming the ranking system works, which is another story entirely, and not the point of my asking.

What I was actually asking is what steps are being taken to actually improve. Simply putting in hundred of hours is extremely inefficient, but focused training can do you a lot of favors. Are you recording your gameplay and watching it back, noting mistakes? Are you playing characters you don't know how to play because they seem to fit into your idea of a team composition? Are you actively and consciously working on your weaknesses, or are you letting auto-pilot take over? Have you done everything you can to optimize your setup (hardware, posture, good health, etc)? Are you demotivating your team or empowering the enemy team in any way?

In short, there's a lot more to it than "I'm playing a lot," and I have to wonder what people who are trying but still falling to Bronze are missing.

>>389273606
Yes, instant gratification is so common, people will literally play cookie clicker games over anything with depth.

How much of an imbecile do you have to be to just sit there and press a button for no reason? Even chimps at least want food as a reward.

>>389273823
Fair point. They can try to incentivize accountability with commendation systems and such, but ultimately it won't stick as long as you don't have to play with the same people from match to match.

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>>389271601
>>389271661
N-NANI!!!

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>>389271601
>>389271661
N-NANIIIII?

>>389271216
play starcraft, no problem

>>389271216
you only need friends / a team if you're terrible at the game you're playing

>>389271661
>>389271601
Really funny anon.
You can stop replying to yourself now.

Solo queuing competitive is almost always going to end up in a bad time, especially in a game very reliant on team dynamics like Overwatch.

There are examples of people solo queuing to the higher brackets, but you have to seriously punch of above your weight all the time AND have have luck with getting decent team mates.

>>389274167
Voice chat is a good step in the right direction IMO, even though CS shows how this is not always helpful. You could also potentially design a system to reward "social" behavior, but that would be exploitable and ulitmately still just a number.

All in all it won't matter much, the way I see it you have to stick to niche games that attract "serious" players who want to play it the "correct" way. Of course a few people play Overwatch seriously, but the game itself doesn't really require teamwork for a "fun" experience, so idiots play it in bigger numbers.

>>389274462
good luck getting past the first round in a tourney without a team

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>>389271601
>>389271661
N-NANIIIII?

>>389274923
what if everyone hates in the community hates you and dont wanna play with you?

>>389271216
>put a male (male) in costume
>call it a female (male)
Why does overwatch do this?

>>389274570
>especially in a game very reliant on team dynamics like Overwatch.
I dunno. OW isn't very complicated. If you play a bit and are observant, you'll kind of get what everyone does generally. I just turn off voice chat and general chat completely because it distracts me. I'm low GM.

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>>389271601
>>389271661
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

You can tell most of the posts reacting to >>389271661 and >>389271601 are samefags based on the post time gap and the post/IP ratio.

So sad.

>>389275309
find a new game to play where nobody knows who you are or take some meds to make you likable

speaking of comp games whats a good one that is not:
with a top down camera
cs go, ow
rng ridden card games

i need to satisfy my need of competition and domination

>>389271601
>>389271661
Pottery

>>389271216
No, because the best comp games are all 1v1 anyway. I cite fighting games.

>>389275461
>I dunno. OW isn't very complicated

i didn't say it was complicated, only that teamwork is required to do well at higher brackets.

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>>389271601
>>389271661
Magic.
Now, who is that, really ?

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>>389275621
Fuck off

>>389273831
Personally my number one thing to consider is "What could I have done differently in that situation to not die/win the objective?", assuming I could have done better at all. It's better to just assume that you could have, for the sake of improvement.

I also practice aim a lot (I prefer to play characters that need aim), the difference between my aim skill is huge if you compare it to just 6 months ago.

I'm not bronze though luckily, I managed to get myself to master most seasons, hopefully I'll keep climbing. OW competetive is a frustrating experience so I don't play too often.

>>389276926
>mobileposting

>>389271216
>competitive gaming
>overwatch
yare yare

>>389276926
charge your fucking phone.

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>>389271601
>>389271661
>ass threads will never happen thanks to brapfags

thank god

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>>389277314
>>389277496
It's an old tablet that's not on any networks, I post from a wifi IP. I can even contribute to filename threads since I'm android.
>tfw can literally shitpost from the toilet