[Rant/Help] Skill Tolerance in Comp Placement
Is it normal to get absolutely flamed in placement matches when the algo decides you, a silver/gold, get put into a match with a 4man hyper sweat group?
I love tank. Specifically Orisa, which im pretty good at in my unranked games generally (when the healers arent dpsing a sombra in a corner).
So, I go into comp as tank. I stomp several matches with my mains, Orisa, Ram, and Winston.
Then on my 5th game it puts me into the absolute sweatiest 1000+ hour purple glitter named players in existence. Im doing -okay-, but the enemy tank is taking like 0 damage per second due to god-tier healers and my team wasn't picking them or the dps off when I held the car.
The zenyatta was focusing me and hitting me with discord when I peaked, making my own health plummet even with my healers. So... I back up, find a wall, you know let it go away.
Then I get FLAMED in chat by my dps saying "Tank should NEVER be behind the team" and im like... Okay, so I explain the discord issue and he juat repeats himself. I say "Hey so im probably not good enough to be in this lobby with you guys, but im just doing my best im sorry" where he then responds "At ANY rank even silver you know not to go behind".
But like... they weren't picking the zen off. The healers couldn't outheal me while discorded. The whole enemy team was focusing me anytime I peaked. What was I supposed to do, die?
So he says to push. Specifically "dont be afraid of damage, just push".
So I respawn, whole team on me, and just hold freaking W. Full send, all gas no breaks. I think I lasted about a second and a half after my spear spin ran out.
Then he starts flaming me for "Pushing without the team" but like...?? We spawned together? You just told me to send it? What? Where WERE you then? You know thats what im thinking but I said nothing.
So then he tells me to switch to a shield (Rein), which I have no experience with but I did okay and we made some progress. But then they adapted and started crushing again, where he told me to go Ram because he counters the enemy composition (I have no idea if thats true but Ram is my off-main so I was excited finally)
We make a looooot more progress and really stall the team when it switched to defense, but we still lost.
Then the guy just keeps freakin bagging on me the entire EG about how I suck.
I didn't choose to be there. The algo put me in that match. It was -almost- helpful if it wasnt so rude, as I did sort of get to trust the healers more (used to unranked healers in corner of map soloing sombras), but it still didnt work because I told him about the Zenyatta issue and he didnt even attempt to work with me keeping that suppressed.
Idk. Like on one hand yes I totally should not have been in that lobby. But on the other hand, HELP me then dont just flame me. I dont want to lose either yk? I just dont wanna even try going back into comp now after that because what if I ruin another game for people. I really dont think im bad for my skill level, but the algo is... finicky.
Posted Aug 14, 2026, 5:48 AM UTC