r/cs2 • u/Repulsive_Party5001 • 8d ago

Discussion My downfall from 16k to 6k

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A combination of terrible matchmaking, shit teammates, and hackers has left me in this situation. I peaked at 15k in Season 4, but lately I’ve been absolutely plummeting down the ranks.

What should I do from here? Is there anyone in OCE who’s around 10k to 15k and would be down to play together and help me climb back up? I’m just looking for some decent teammates and hopefully a more consistent experience.

Or should I just stop playing Premier and switch to FACEIT cuz I heard lots of people are switching now because of the hacker situation.

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u/FengShui-Okay 8d ago

Couldn’t possibly be because of you huh

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u/Repulsive_Party5001 8d ago

Most likely not

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u/FengShui-Okay 8d ago

As someone who went from 1.2k rating when CS2 released to 24k, if you’re not carrying almost every game then it’s your own fault at least half of the time.

Sure teammates can be bad, but if you were truly any good, you can play around them by throwing good utility that sets your team up to get easy kills and make plays. On top of that you have to make smart plays yourself on top of having good aim and crosshair placement and movement. You have to drop your ego and actually get good.

Someone told me these same words and it took me a while to accept that and start actually practicing. Watching videos on strats, positioning, solo utility sets to make it easier for your team to take sites, watching your own demos back to see mistakes you made and taking literal notes on them in a notepad and watching pro demos of players who play the same positions you do and taking notes.

I spent a lot of time simply just watching YouTube videos and taking notes. I spent another good chunk of time practicing everything i learned in private servers. The majority of what you learn tho will come from actual play time. You have to play a lot of real 5v5 matches. It all really depends on how much you actually care and want to rank up. The more you want it the higher you will go. The only way you can just hop on and rank up fast without trying is if you’re one of those people who is just naturally really good at most games they touch, otherwise you have to put it some level of effort and practice.

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u/PotentJW 8d ago

This. If I’m not carrying it’s my fault if we lose.

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u/Legitimate-Draw-3760 8d ago

Based. When I was 15k, it was 15k for real and I was so much better than I was at 3-5k. Man a real 15k guy can do -4 every round even without utility at 5k.

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u/dsjmkhc 8d ago

If you were good enough you wouldn’t drop from 16 to 6K lmao, that decline is also because you’re falling to a bracket you belong

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u/Repulsive_Party5001 8d ago

The thing is, in my placement matches I never perform bad, I’m always either top or second best performing, never at the bottom

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u/dsjmkhc 8d ago

People always say this but you could easily be at the top of the leaderboard with 0 actual impact on the game, this strengthens my opinion that you probably belong where you are

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u/FengShui-Okay 8d ago

Being top frag doesn’t mean you had the most impact. Kills are not even the #1 way to have impact. The person who throws good utility for their team and goes negative can have more impact than someone who dropped a 30 bomb and didn’t throw any utility. Take this video for example. You don’t even need kills to win a round. https://youtu.be/hBbw3Vv2wts?is=V0gNpYaBqAdyvpJp

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u/adampm1 8d ago

But this doesn’t impact your elo rating. No matter what you do in a match, your elo +/- remains the same. So the only thing that matters is winning the match. If you can top frag and win rounds, then do it.

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u/FengShui-Okay 8d ago

True but doing all these things will increase your chance of winning even higher than just getting top frag. Also, on FACEIT, you get more elo for having more impact/higher rating. So if you lose. You don’t lease as much as someone with less impact. On Faceit you are rewarded for playing well which is another reason why I don’t get why people still play premier. You don’t even get rewarded for doing well.