Tips for Plat Ranked as a solo player
Hi Drongos. I'm not really one for ranked (never got past gold) but gave it a go this season with Valk and surprised myself in getting to Plat in about four playing sessions. Ditching Valk for Fusey...
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It's going to be a blast!
My strategy for gold was:
1 - Drop solo where no one drops
2 - Hide
3 - When the ring is creeping in, load up on meds
4 - Stay out of the ring for as long as possible, healing and opening bins
5 - Find a replicator and craft med packs
6 - Finally come into the ring when there are 2/3 squads left and die
From Silver I to Plat IV only had one game where I had a negative score, and that was when my squad followed me in. Won two games too when a TM survived to the final 2/3/4.
It's amazing the number of swifty-dead TMs who stayed me with up to the end to pick up their RPs. I'd prefer it if Ranked had a no-fill option too as I leave my team a player short, but it's far easier to grind solo.
@EdwardDLuffyFrom what I've seen that strategy won't work in plat. I've been playing it with a friend who normally does the diamond grind solo but has limited time to play. He asked me if I'd play it with him so I have been doing that.
People seem to have realized placement is the best way to gain points or at least not lose them as fast. The amount of people that run away and dont fight early game is mind blowing. 10 teams left going to round 3.
Switching off valk now is probably bad as character selection gets more important the higher you get in ranked. And she is quite important if you dont repostion to game end fast. We won 2 in a row yesterday by repositioning in the final ring with her ult.
What I've found most interesting are the teams that don't do anything until last 4 teams and them ape the 1 or 2 man teams to try for easy kills. They throw away the placement points which increase a lot at that point.
- @hayhor Yeah, I'm kind of guessing it won't work in Plat. I'm usually in the +ve placement points by the start of round three as there are only 3/4 teams left, and me.
Hear you about Valk but Fusey suits my playstyle and he's a lot more versatile than people think. I've learned from watching MATCH1N to carry a dozen or so nades, depending on your backpack. I've roasted several complete squads with the ML, KCs and nades. You can split squads too into the Legends who can get out of the mess (Horizon, Valk, Octane, etc) and those who have to run through it. You can still get a good judge of where they are heading as you see the 35 ... 8 ... 8 ... 8 ... track across your screen.- @EdwardDLuffy I have no issue with fuse and actually enjoy using him. The issue is if those remaining teams see you as a lone fuse they will ape you. And plat players are better at aim than gold.
I have a proper team these days (only took me 3 years finding one hehe) but the biggest general mistake I see in ranked is that some players play like a newly turned vampire, yes we have one on the team but in his excuse hes only lvl 300 so he havent been able to get proper control over the blood thirst just yet hehe. (Famous last words, his one shot, oooooh)
You need to understand what is a good fight and bad fight, in general I notice fights when you land have a high probability of coin-flip wins (radom if you loose or win) because of the loot situation and quality of specific landing spot compared to the other teams, while early game looted fights can be healthy if you find someone who boboed on position or are running big split looting sessions. Late game is bone hard and everyone got everything and youre working for placement points, the last 5 positions are huge point hogs and gives so interesting fights with loads of tactics involved - its a lot of fun and adrenaline.
Going into a fight, understanding there is no such thing as committing to a fight, and understanding when to rotate or just pulling out is key for survival and points. Some fights we go in we see because of the situation, placement and general state of the team is not winnable so we pull out rotate and pick the fight at another time and place where we are at an advantage. When we as a team can balance this properly were normally harvesting plenty of RP, but yes at higher levels the less the bubu the bigger the consequence....
The best I come over is when you see a guy suddenly pushing because he hit a grenade or something and going all bloodrage like a newly turned vamp so we can single him out and just kill him there and then, to turn around and start killing the rest of the team is god sendt for us, especially at higher ranks the bloodrage can kill you soo fast.
Plat up hiding for points dont really work as youre at a disadvantage endgame for the last 5 positions as its not seldom I see 5+ teams on last ring and most of these have purple and red armors. Same higher ranked most actually run team comps so most of them have scanners, murphy says they spot you when youre in your worst state hehe.
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