I'm personally probably not playing S2 much since it takes sooo many games to either get to GM, or get enough CP for the next gold wep :C Also I wouldn't worry too much about not getting to Diamond. From S1 experience, 60s are better than 50s, but ultimately I don't think going for 60s is really a big deal. It looks good and that's about it. My games in S1 have been slightly better in 60s but it wasn't that huge of an improvement either.
I guess if you really wanna, setting yourself the goal of Diamond isn't a bad thing. But don't feel bad if you can't reach it imo. I personally don't use their ranks as a judgement of how good they are, since I've personally played with 70s that felt like 60s -__- and conversely had 50s play like 70s (that was an actually fun carry vs carry game where both sides basically didn't cared about the other half of the team xD).
I haven't really explored S2 that much, so what do you guys think about laddering in S2. Does it feel very grindish and how would you compare it to S1 and PS ladder in terms of how grindy it is or maybe quality of ladder. Some opinions would be nice to hear out of curiosity.
I think I mentioned before, but I liked streaks as a personal preference thing despite knowing that it isn't actually a good thing lol. I liked abusing it in S1 to basically gain rank quickly and get out of the rank pit though we all still lingered at 60+% winrate but we couldn't be bothered playing more games since we already could get gold weps ! But for people who soloq, streaks and probably positive win streaks are less common due to how much random factor there are. Don't get hung up on rank or whatever. Just play for the gold weapons is my advice xD You should be able to know for yourself how good you are or how well you've improved without having the rank judge for you. Being able to judge your own skill without bias for yourself is what you should aim for rather than a certain rank.
I know. But season 1 and 2 proved otherwise. I play a lot, I record and review myself, I read competitiveoverwatch and watch gameplays daily to improve positioning and map awareness, I do practise range and bot train often.
After four huge lose streaks (over 10), and I still haven't got back to my peak on day 1 of the season. I mean, I'll keep playing my best and trying to improve, I just hardly think I'll get much further. I'm close to 300 hours in the game and my s2 average rank (2300~, peak 2580) is below my s1 average (49, peak 51)...
Would not recommend taking reddit sources as reliable guides or whatever. There are a lot of things that gets mentioned that are very over generalized, and probably not good if you're looking to improve to much higher levels. If anything, I'd recommend watching like the top few teams if they're playing tournaments and have VODs. Just to note that both teams should be good and equally good if not you'll learn bad habits from the winning team when they can just do whatever they want and win if they're significantly better lol. Also pro streams are pretty helpful. I personally feel Seagull does a good job throwing in random knowledge here and there in his streams, though not a lot, but probably more reliable at the least.
Also due to how I *think* how grindy the ladder might be, I might suggest you aim for high Plat first before going for Diamond. Gold-Plat seems like a really clustermess of people there with really huge variance in skill. It'll take quite awhile to get out of there even if you're better than most people there. Just give yourself more and lower aims to contend yourself with, I think that will do you better in the long run. And lose streaks sucks :(
While I'd say that rank 50 to 60 from S1 isn't that huge of a jump in terms of skill (but still a noticeable jump), in terms of ladder, it's not as easy to breach to either. Soloq makes your rank more volatile too so yeaaaaa. Take it slow and don't bother about how high you hit in the end lest that only discourages you. Self awareness is more important.