Hours and hours of grinding, only for seconds to watch as that rank drops? The pain is real, and a tweet just nailed one of those situations: “he would never understand how it feels to drop a rank” with a moody-blurred-out image dripping with frustration. No other context could even come close to giving an idea to anyone who has ever tried climbing up that leaderboard that translates to this feeling.
The tweet gives no specifics, and who needs them? Just those two lines would unpack the abused memory of an ill-timed headshot, bad team compositions, or that 1 that guy who felt like throwing the match did at the last moment. The picture? Possible-looks like for an unfortunate wretch staring defiantly at his screen, questioning all the life choices he ever made.
Insane how common this is; the uninstall pains from League, to Valorant, to Overwatch, and even fighting games. You can’t ever explain it to someone just not in it. They’ll always say, “it’s just a game,” thus glossing over the fact that you’ve lost about weeks of progress in 20 minutes.
Which, so far, is devoid of replies but not likely to remain so. A post that would witness a stream of horror stories from everyone about how their five-rank drop was made in one sitting and demotion due to a random disconnection. Solidarity urges.
If you’ve ever been in the rank-vanishing-into-the-void moment after fighting so hard to keep it, know you’re amongst friends. The struggle is real; so is the pain. And, yes, it really does suck. But something tells me that tweet will resonate.
