On a Arowana Mall Tower Control match, my entire team gets splatted before either of us could get on the tower. Me, being the only one left took out the enemy team by myself, and got ourselves a good lead.
In S Rank Lobbies, fun is possible!
Arowana TC was lots of fun last night! That's awesome!
For the first time in my lil squid kid life, I have finally become S+. Be nice to me, guys!
I just wanted to elaborate on my journey just a little bit since it was approaching 2am last night and I had been playing for 8-9 hours.
I really didn't expect to grind all the way through S Rank in one sitting. I came home from work and wanted to play a little Hammerhead/Ancho-V Zones since the former is one of my weakest stages. I ended up doing better than expected on it. I also decided I wanted to focus all of my weapon practice entirely into my main (Splattershot Jr), where before I'd often rotate depending on the scenario for Rainmaker and Splat Zones matches. I wanted to become even more versatile with my one main instead of dividing up my experience among multiple weapons. So it went alright. But ultimately the Splat Zones rotation ended with me in the negative (I started at S 29 and ended at S 14).
I played straight through the next rotation, Walleye/Moray Rainmaker, with no breaks whatsoever. I had a lot of ups and downs, a lot of rough matches with poor team coordination (as is so often the case with Moray RM in Solo). I reached S 56 but ended the rotation at S 30.... back where I started. I'd have more to say on this bit but honestly it was all a blur. I didn't really have any matches that stuck out as memorable or impressive. It was kinda rough.
Along comes Arowana and Bluefin Tower Control. Bluefin TC is one of my top map/mode combos. I believe its the combo that originally got me into S Rank many months ago. But Arowana always makes me nervous. Sometimes the whole stage seems like one giant chokepoint. Certainly my lil short range Jr doesn't help that. But TC is my specialty. So I had confidence. I averaged 8-12 kills per match, and found that many of my teammates had similar scores. Chalk it up to luck, but I had a lot of teams who worked really well together. When I play TC, I am a tower rider (a good one), so I find that it gives my teammates possibly a sense of comfort knowing that there's not going to be a "nose-goes" situation for who has Tower duty. I'm already on it. And with my trusty Stealth Jump shoes I always jump to the tower and try to hold it where it is, if not push even further.
Anyway, from 11pm-2am, I climbed the S Rank. I don't remember how many losses I faced, but they were few. I know that I lost 3 times from S 60~ and up. I ended with a +19.0 on my SO HAWT thing. So it was my biggest win streak ever. Honestly, when I began playing, I said I'd stop when I reached S 60, since I'd never been much higher than that and didn't want to risk a fatal losing streak creeping up. But when I reached S 70 fairly quickly, I decided to just go all in. It was unprecedented. Like I said, I didn't plan a fierce grind. But it was a pleasant surprise.
I know a lot of people can breeze through S Rank with little trouble. But I've been stuck here for 3-4 months. I wasn't sure I'd ever reach S+. But here I am. So take this as a lesson, my squid friends, if you feel stuck, or hopeless, or that your skill has plateaud, MIRACLES DOES HAPPEN. You too can woomy with the best of them.
now i'm terrified to actually enter an S+ lobby....
:D
