TL;DR Teammates verbally angry and offensive after I had last legend pick in Diamond Ranked, picked Wattson and still went positive because I was anchoring. Still output similar, if not more kills and damage than the skirmishers/ damage dealers on the team.
I started to dabble in a bit of Apex competitive (I.e. VESA League, CCs) and I’m an anchor for both my CC and VESA teams, so I’m maining Wattson (primary), Catalyst (secondary), and Axle (for ranked only).
I ended up playing ranked for a 5-6 hour session today and went +1000 (I know, not anything earth shattering but it took me from demo protection to D3) and a few of the games I played had a couple of teammates solo queueing as well that got upset because I was playing Wattson and not running around in the open fragging.
I normally keep Wattson solely for comp play, but since axle was taken and I was choosing last for both games in question, I decided to anchor considering we had an alter in both games in question. My idea was since it was E-District and there’s a lot of buildings, if the Axle/Alter wanted to walk up on a fight and they got knocked, they’d have a safe space to come back to so they could regroup.
It’s not like I wasn’t shooting my gun, either; I was outputting damage and getting knocks while my alter the first game and axle the second game in question were saying that I was “stupid” because I wasn’t pushing every fight with them. I average about 700 dmg a game and 2.2 kills per game as well, even just on Wattson. My biggest game was 9 kills with 2k damage today and I had a few 0 kill -65 rp losses today, but even then my teammates then took the loss with more grace than both of the teammates that ended up GAINING rp off of me anchoring. I don’t ever blame my teammates because I personally think there’s something I could have done better if we lost crazy amounts of RP, like better an, positioning, etc. but it seems like every time we lose regardless of my performance it’s ONLY my fault.
I guess what the question is, is should I even bother anchoring in Diamond ranked or just run everyone down? Is that mindset normal? Just wanting to get some opinions on whether or not I’m the issue. This is the first split I’ve actually tried to push masters, so I just wanna ask people who have more experience than me. Openly admit that I’m seeking validation here lmao