For anyone looking for some gamer inspiration, I’ve never been higher than gold in this game. After going 1-4 in my placement matches, I started Silver 1 and hit Diamond 1 last night. Thought I would give some insights on what helped me rank up!

• Hardware upgrade. Was playing on a potato that struggled to stay above 100 FPS. New rig consistently hits 300 frames, plus I got a 240hz monitor. Pure butter

• Stopped playing agents I didn’t win with. I love Skye and flashing people. But my tracker.gg showed my win % was like 40% with her. Sage and Omen win rate was 55%+, so I only play those 2

• Power of positivity and good comms Always tell teammates “nice try”, “let’s go boys we got this”, etc. Basically always keeping the vibes up even if we were down

• Do whatever to win. I rarely top frag, if it was late game and a close match and i could buy but our demon duelist couldn’t? Screw it, I’d buy them a rifle and take their sheriff!

I know some peeps will think “lol Diamond 1 is low elo”. Maybe it is, but for someone who’s 33 with a full time and a nagging girlfriend, this is probably my peak 😝 cheers guys and good luck in ranked!