I'm currently bouncing between copper 1 and bronze 5, but I had a very good run at the end of my last session that has put me towards the top of bronze 5 and it's been by doing what I've advised above. It's an uphill battle.Īnother thing I've found useful is seeing who's on the top of the leaderboard on your team and supporting them, whether it be through following them into objective on attack, being the Thatcher to their thermite or just watching their back on defense. If someone/the enemy team are making the game unplayable just report, surrender, protect your KD if that doesn't work and get over it when you start a new match. But the griefers and team killers should be fairly evenly distributed. Sometimes you'll be going up against a 5-stack of people who are way better than they should be for the rank, you'll never have that on your team. Giving your team up-to-date positional data during the push can panic the defenders and give your team-mates a big advantage.Īlso what other people have said about "there's an equal chance of getting smurfs on your team Vs the enemy team" isnt quite right. Also sometimes it can be useful to be on a drone while your enemy is pushing, scanning enemies if you have a good vantage point. Drone ahead before moving through rooms if you can safely and check those corners. Map knowledge is more important so if you're really dedicated I'd advise playing custom games or looking at the maps online and thinking about how you want to approach the different objectives. I don't have such good advice for this as I'm worse at attacking. Don't peek, just defend from inside or adjacent to objective and force the attackers to wade through defender utility to get to you. Go on cams early round and try to scan enemies for team mates if they're anywhere near them. Anchor when on defense with smoke, echo, lesion, valk etc and really make sure you understand the layout of the objective so you don't get casually headshot from a window while moving around or setting something up. You also don't need to worry anywhere near as much about giving intel like where you're placing traps away to drones, because the enemy is far less likely to know the map and remember what they've seen on their drone, and unless they're smurfing they're not gonna communicate for shit.įocus on staying alive. If you realise after the first round on defense that no-one hard breached on the enemy team or took a hard breacher, maybe don't bother with the re-enforced wall defense and try to catch them out with a kapkan or some tricksy frost mats. This can be complicated by the fact that, at least at low level on console, some teams never even bother with hard breach. If there's no bandit, kaid or mute, you know what you gotta do. Pick your operators based on what the rest of your team pick and try to fill any hole they leave - if there's no hard breacher, be a hard breacher. So you gotta play like you're carrying the entire team every game. So say you would be in low gold if you had a team, you're probably not gonna get out of bronze in solo. Your solo Q rank is gonna be much lower than if you had a team of people your skill who were average at communication. You have to accept that, without a team, you're never gonna raank as high as you would otherwise. There are just people out there that have such poor mechanical skill and game sense that not even cheats can save them. However, while it may be rare, cheaters at a low rank are a thing, even as low as copper. Yeah, there might be hackers at that rank, but VERY VERY few compared to Plat/Diamond eloįor sure, trying to do anything at high plat elo has been impossible this season due to the insane amount of cheaters. That's a banned cheater with ESP and aimbot that is unable to win a large chunk of gunfights, and even lost quite a few matches while quite blatantly locking on to people. Then take a look at their match history and look at how much they struggled in many of their games. Just an example, but here's a clip of a cheater I ran into at silver elo on EU on a smurf in early May. Most I've seen don't seem to be auto-firing for em, so there is still some user limitation there. Guessing that even with gun locked on and tracing, they just didn't have the reaction time needed to win the fight. Seen a few struggling even with ESP and aimbot at that level. They must be less powerful hacks then, just ESP.