Jason":2gqaxxct said:
I did my placement matches, got put at like 2230 or something, and said fuck it I'm done for this season, can't be bothered with competitive for the most part, too much salt and cancer lol
I noticed that the attitudes of the players drops significantly below the 2750 mark, when I spent time below that level it was really hard to get my SR up as the teams had just awful attitudes. The moment a game starts, people would pick a decent comp, then the last person picks some completely unneeded hero and it's like; We got 83% of the way towards a really solid build that covers the common match-ups that would destroy the attack/defense - then this one player decides fuck it, the team needs a massive weakness to be exposed.
Above the 2750 mark, you'd get some really dumb picks, but then the team would change up to compensate, build on its strengths to make up for the 1 player making a glaring weakness. Everyone tends to communicate and change their heroes up and adapt to make sure the team can survive.
The closer I got to 3000sr the more mid-round Junkrat switches I saw to combat Orisa/Rein/Winston picks, it's like people actually understood the time and place to use a hero.
I have noticed, however, that over 3000sr there are more "mains". I always thought playing a "main" hero was a really dumb thing to do, and I kind of maintain that (considering below 2750 there are loads of "mains") but my policy of learn all the heroes for the maps so I could adapt seems to only go as far as 2900sr, from then on-wards you need to actually git gud with a particular hero - this is from brief observation of my couple of 3000sr games.