How to Climb Deadlock Ranks Fast: Key Strategies for Ascendant

2 months after starting Deadlock, I went from an initiate player, and I recently hit Ascendant one with 90% win rate. And

when I was queuing through those games from Archon all the way up to Ascendant one, there were a few things I noticed

that made it so much easier to climb, and that's what we're going to talk about in this episode of Shady's

Obsession. And if you guys are new here, this is a series where I yap about a topic, and you turn me on in the

background while you do something else. Or, if you really want to, you can watch the mid gameplay. Let's get right into

it. Now, first thing a lot of people have to understand is the vast majority of players in this game, respectfully,

are bad. They don't understand the game. They don't understand how to play the game. They came from a hero shooter or

Dota or whatever, and they load up into this game and just kind of do whatever they want. Maybe they're playing team

fight the game, or they're playing farm the game, or whatever. Most of them aren't playing Deadlock. So, you have to

realize that a lot of the weight when you're solo queuing or duo queuing or whatever, a lot of the weight is on you.

Because, from experience, if you're not bad, you'll still rank up, right? If you're above the rank that you're

playing in, for the most part, you will rank up and you'll be fine. Now, don't get me wrong, you will still get

government mandated losses, but you have to understand that most people are bad, most people don't understand the game,

and there are plenty of people, even in Ascendant or whatever, that have a thousand plus games that do not deserve

to be there. They're bad, they got rank boosted, they got whatever, and Ascendant doesn't mean that they're

good. Phantom doesn't mean they're good. Oracle doesn't mean they're good. A lot of the players are bad. So, when you

hear that, you're like, "Okay, what am I supposed to do with this information?" Few things. One of the first things, it

starts as soon as you start the game. You should be playing a gun carry, in my opinion. Now, don't get me wrong, if you

can duo with someone, duoing, I think, is the best way to climb in this game, by far. Because, if you're duoed, you

guys can cover different roles. For example, when I duo, my duo's usually a spirit nuker kind of player, or he plays

a roamer. So, what I'll be doing, usually, is I kind of just hard farm. I'm allowed to just pretty much hard

farm, and he is the one who will roam or get picks in other lanes or whatever. And since I'm usually a gun carry, I can

get all the objectives, I can worry about not having them buy one resistance and countering our whole team, and it

just puts the game more in our control. Now, the reason why I say, even for solo queue, to play a gun carry, is because

if you understand, let's say, League of Legends or whatever, not queuing a gun carry character is like playing a game

of League without an ADC. It just doesn't make sense. You don't have a carry. You don't have someone that can

melt walkers. You don't have someone that can kill objectives, melt mid boss. Even the fact that most of the roster

are spirit, and most of people that play characters are people who play spirit characters. Most people just buy, let's

say, spellbreaker, spirit rezell, and you're useless. They buy dispel, you're useless. But, if you're buying a gun

carry chances are most of your team, if not all, will be spirit characters, which means you'll be fine. They can

handle the early game for you, and you scale, you farm, whatever, and you just start getting every objective, you start

melting people because they don't buy resistance for you, and you pretty much just scale and win. Now, some examples

of gun carries are, let's say, Venator or Haze or Wraith or Yeah, and Wraith is a good one because she also does spirit,

too. So, that's pretty helpful. Or, let's say, I guess Viper, but I don't really like Viper that much. She's not

bad, I like her in lane early, but yeah. But, anyone who does primarily gun damage, even Warden's really good, and

he does a lot of spirit, as well. A lot of different characters. But, once you've chose your character, the

carrying starts in just lane, right? Try to get yourself against the worst lane, if that makes sense. For example, if you

see, I don't know, Apollo Graves as a lane, you should go there. If possible, right? If you're a character that

actually just gets destroyed by Apollo Graves and there's literally zero chance you can do anything or have any impact,

fine, don't do it. But, you don't want to risk giving the best lane or the strongest lane or whatever, or maybe the

hardest scalers, a random. Because, if you give them a full random lane, that means you put the future of that game or

the way the game scales into a random's hand. So, if they play bad or they somehow magically leave lane with 10

deaths, which I've seen before, you could have stopped it, right? Let's say you get stomped in lane, right? But, you

have a brain. You don't push out of guardian 40 different times expecting "Oh, I'll get the kill this time. I got

it." Instead, you sit under walker, you sit under guardian, whatever, you let them take guardian, you push back to

walker, let waves crash on you, whatever, and you maybe end lane with 0 and 3, and they still win, but you get

to farm, you get to stay alive, and you don't make them pretty much unbeatable past the 10-minute mark, you know what I

mean? So, you want to try your best to take the hard lanes. Now, once lane phase is over, some games are honestly

lost before even the 10-minute mark, which we'll talk about in a little while, but once you get past the lane

phase, then it's farm simulator. The biggest issue I see with people who are trying to carry or try to win or

whatever, they're over rotating for their team. Your team, forget them. Good luck. Have fun, team. If they want to

over fight, if they want to death ball, if they want to whatever, let them. Stop giving up your advantage. Stop giving up

your jungle. Stop giving up your two lanes that you could be farming or whatever. Stop giving up all of that to

go help a fight that you probably couldn't have any impact in anyways, because you're 2K farm under and the

enemy team has 10% up on us and we're going to lose. So, just farm. For the most part, and I actually I was admiring

this game's balance the other day. I like the way they did unsecured souls, because I think the game devs realized

that farming, by far in my opinion, is just the easiest way to win a game. You sit there and you farm like an idiot the

whole game. You just play PvE simulator, and you walk out of jungle 10K farm ahead of everybody, and there's nothing

they can do about it. Unless they find you in lane, take that gigantic 2K bag you're sitting on away from you, and

steal it, and then you get out of the fight for 20 seconds or 40 seconds or whatever. So, your game rotation, if all

you care about is winning, now don't get me wrong, if you, you know, you just want to have fun or whatever,

it probably wasn't the video for you in the first place. But, if you just want to win, you want to rank up, or you want

to tell someone, "Yeah, I hit Ascendant or I hit Eternals, bro." Your job is sit there, get in lane, find out what your

spikes are on your hero. For example, when I get Ricochet on Wraith, I get Ricochet, I will farm up for my next

tier four after that, and then I pretty much perma fight the rest of the game. I reset waves if I need to, but pretty

much I'm always fighting or always getting jungle from the enemy team's side of the map the rest of the entire

game. But, you need to figure out what your spikes are. So, let's say you're seven and you just bought unstoppable

and maxed your last point in your ultimate. From then on out, you're looking for team fights. You're saying

to your team, "All right, guys, I got my big spike, I'm at 40K farm, whatever. Let's go fight them." And by then, you

know, your teammates might be at Donald 23K farm, but you use them, you get them in there to the fight, and you just pop

all, you do whatever, and you win the game. Cuz, pretty much, once you get to a certain level of farm, they have to

curse you, they have to molt and krill you, they have to dynamolt you, they have to refresher you, they have to do

whatever to even get you out of the game. And if they put all those resources into you, yes, you could still

die, you could still get killed or whatever, but there's a decent chance that all those resources into you puts

them behind on items that they could have used to scale or whatever, and it puts your team on a little bit more of

an even playing field. For example, if someone buys curse, that's another tier four they couldn't get. But, you forced

them not to get it, and it's not even a guaranteed chance that they kill you. So, your game plan in mid game is

jungle, split push, get objectives. So, what it would look like is, let's say your team's fighting and three people

are in the opposite lane to you, cuz you should be side laning. The opposite lane to you, three enemies are, right? So,

you see that, you push out wave all the way, you get to walker, and you're standing there shooting walker, seeing

if anyone will zip over or whatever. If they start, you just leave. You back all the way back up, you go back to jungle

while the wave is coming back to you, you kill maybe two or three camps, maybe a sinners, whatever, and then you head

back to lane, you kill lane, and you do it over and over again. So, the whole game, you're pretty much pressuring one

side of the map, forcing them to pay attention to you. Now, one mistake I see a lot of people do is either hold on to

bags or push past the midpoint too much. You shouldn't, unless you're Wraith, because Wraith can just TP across the

map in one of usage of her two. Unless you're Wraith, though, do not push past, you know, the bridge on each side lane?

That little bridge, don't push past it. You shouldn't even walk down into that pit where lane is, right past where

guardian stands. You shouldn't even walk down there most of the time. Kill the wave, push it past there, leave. There's

too many chances for ganks, there's too many chances for them to kill you, and a lot of people, when they're jungling,

they're not paying attention to how much of a bag they have, how much of unsecured souls they have. So, either

you need to spend all that first, deliver one 2K bag to the enemy team, the game is over. Chances are you just

lose, because you deliver a 2K bag, that's 2K soldier down, and now you can't farm for the next 60 seconds, and

you put the game, the entire game, completely in your teammates' hands for the next 60 seconds. Now, for more

mental stuff, which helped a lot, as well, two things. The two out of three rule, which is pretty much as simple as

your game should be broken up into best two out of threes. If you get on, you lose the first two, maybe we get off. If

you get on, you win the first two, decide if you want to do more. If you get on and you play three games, and,

let's say, you win one, lose two, or whatever, you should be playing three games at a time if you're trying to rank

up, right? For the most part. The reason why I do the best two out of three rule is just because a lot of people will

tilt queue, and I don't want to tilt queue and just Well, uh I'm just going to keep playing, keep playing, keep

playing, keep playing, and just play till I lose, or play until I'm so far behind that I just don't want to play

the game ever again. I was like, "Oh, no, deleting this account, deleting the game. No, I quit. I don't lost just five

in a row. I hate this game." You know, usually, if I lose two in a row, that's it for me. No. But, if I win two, yep,

no, I'm happy. I won. Goodbye. Get me off this game. And the other thing is, you want to focus on IGLing. And if you

don't know what IGLing is, it's in-game leader. And pretty much, you're just telling your teammates what to do, how

to do. Now, sometimes you'll get teammates like, "Bro, shut up." Or, you're like, "You're two and three, bro.

You're bad, bro. Shut up." It's like, it'll happen, right? But, you just want to focus on, "Oh, we just got three

picks. We're pushed up in every lane. Yo, team, let's go mid boss." Or, "Yo, team, let's split push and let's get

this walker." Or whatever. Just telling your teammates what to do, cuz a lot of people in Deadlock, they don't really

know what to do. They're just sitting there, walking around, "Oh, well, I'll go farm. Oh, there's an enemy on the

map, maybe I'll go fight that." Or, "Oh, Oh, up lane, I don't want to go in walker, I might die. Even though he

doesn't realize six people are dead. You know what I mean? So, just that little bit of a push to help your teammates.

Also, now that we're this far into the video, if you guys want to know five of the best heroes to climb out of low elo,

click the link to the YouTube video in the description. It's a buddy of mine's and he recently started doing YouTube

and do me a favor. Do not tell him that I sent you guys. Just try to leave a good comment or let him know if you like

the video or whatever cuz he wants to try to get into YouTube and I kind of want to give him a little bit of a

boost, but I don't want him to know it's me. And chances are he won't watch this video to this far in, so I'm all right.

But, as for the last thing, most of the games people lose in the first 15 minutes. So, if you want to learn how to

stop losing in the first 15 minutes and dominate landing phase, check out this video right here. I love you guys. Have

a good one. God bless you.