Yea, for now I’m just going to recommend a few things: ladder with comfortable teams at the start until you’re more ready to compete and save replays of losses to go over them and identify what went wrong, fix mistakes, improve your range of ideas, etc
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Finchinator
Finchinator
Once you’ve reflected and got your footing straight, I’d really try a fresh alt and only keep/salvage the alt if you win the vast majority of your first 15-20 games. A loss in your first 10 games or multiple in your first 15 can be impossible to overcome GXE wise — it’s different than ELO laddering as rangers diminish over larger samples