This PLAT Stuck in Elo Hell *PROVED* He Deserves A Higher Rank... (In A MASTERS Lobby) 

When you get 5 people who you think are in "elo hell" you should put them in the same team against a higher level team to truly test their abilities

With this description I’d want this guy on my team too

Hey guys, Kaks here, Just thought I’d say thanks for all the support + tips in the comments. Is awesome to read through! Enjoyed the experience 3)

He’s like allergic to using his shield lol

I love how the guy writes "disgusting metallic grey" on his essay even though that's the color of Reinhardt's armor

You need a tank with high mobility on numbani defence because your supports are probably going to want to spread across the high ground and the tank needs to be able to peel for them. If the tank can’t move between point and high ground quickly, the moment the enemy team push the tank to drop, the supports are vulnerable.

The fact that jays chat switches at the end on the plat rein because of a mistake its crazy ,it was a clear team diff and that guy should be higher than plat . Do more plat players ,plat is mixed with either cracked people or terrible

Despite key problems like lack of shielding and only one hero really, he absolutely held his own in the lobby and even made some great plays and comms. Definitely did not seem like a plat player.

I think when you find someone that is a talented as Kacks you should get a top level rien to chat with him and give him a few tips and tricks that would further elevate his gameplay.

SO impressive out of of Kaks. If he remembers that he IS the choke for his team, and that it's his job to create and hold space for his team, CREATING OPPORTUNITY for THEM to make plays, and not always make the plays himself, he can climb very fast. Tank is a selfless role. Overall, we found him. He is the one.

I think this guy just had really good supports in the first game. I think they could make it to diamond but unless they start playing more like a tank I don't see them progressing much further.

“Listen to the comms. Listen to the communication!” The comms: YeYeYeOhEhEhehehEhapeyesissjdd

The sole thing keeping this guy from climbing, is discipline. And mind, many people correlate discipline with playing more defensive - but discipline at its core is all about understanding priority and value. His playstyle is great for ladder play and climbing, and what he needs is the mental discipline of prioritizing what value to aggressively pursue. For example, discipline of paying attention to enemy intentions ahead of team fights, so he doesn't get walled by Mei every fight and his Bap has to waste lamp early. Discipline to check enemy Rein position and ult track, so he isn't miles deep in the enemy team 1v5 leaving his entire backline open for ez enemy shatter, etc. Discipline of understanding how to be aggro when he doesn't have a Masters lvl Lucio player speeding him around and also actively comming to tell their intend 24/7. All of this he should be able to accomplish on his own, in a lobby of no comms, with subpar team mates. He must have the discipline to know what value to pursue and when to do it. High effort comms filled custom lobbies like this one will always provide a far better foundation for good plays than a random rng rank lobby ever could. But it's the rng rank lobby he's trying to climb from, not the custom perfect setup one.

As a Rein main myself it is obvious that this Reinhardt player has good mechanics and understanding of Rein's playstyle. He held his own well in the mirror against his masters counterpart. The problem occurs when we see him on maps that do not favor Rein. It appears that his hero pool is lacking and that will sadly keep him in lower ranks even if his *Reinhardt play* is deserving of a higher rank. In a game where there is only 1 tank flexibility is king. It doesn't matter if your winrate on king's row and Lijang are 90% if you're going to be queuing into an insta-loss everytime you land on Numbani and Gibraltar.

This whole video gave me chills bro. Your sense of community is overwhelming and so joyous. You even brought duck out to watch zis glory! Vunderbar!

The prophecy is true. We have found the true hard stuck from ELO hell!

Its a rank based on a role. Not a single character. What happens if other team stayed bastion? Or other tank switched to ram or orisa? I think hes better than some plats but not better than plat.

He plays so aggressively that plat healers probably can't keep up with his style.

His biggest issue is that because he's stuck in Platinum, he can abuse aggressive gameplay in lobbies that generally don't expect tanks to be that aggressive. He carried that over in game 1 but to his favour. The other games, he got diffed hard by the opposing tank and DPS. KAKS lacks adaptability. The enemy team knew to switch things up but he kept forcing Reinhardt and it ended up being his downfall. If he can just learn to swap and adapt where needed and combine that with his game-sense, he could easily hit Masters.

I'm curious, is it that in Plat because of his aggressive play style not many people he's getting on his team are not very good with an aggressive playstyle and unable to support Rein? I know I've been on teams with an aggressive Rein and we demolish the enemy team but then I get a team that can't handle pushing in with the Rein and are very passive. It also is a pain when they one trick and can't play heros according to the map. Like if you're stuck in an elo, playing 1 character, maybe it's time to learn more characters and adapt?

I really think the ping was hurting him more than originally thought. On Lijiang, for example, he had a lot of interesting charges that seemed like a whole second or two late. And on Numbani, I can't imagine why he would've deliberately NOT used his ult when demeched at the end of the round, so I think ping probably messed up the timing of hitting Q. I (NA) sometimes play with my EU friends, and the increased ping can sometimes really throw you off. Sometimes I just straight up don't queue dps when playing with EU people (I'm a support main and my dps is mid at best normally lmfao). This guy has amazing charisma and shot-calling, and paired really well with that Lucio on Kings Row (who had some amazing beats). I think his losses were a combination of the following: ping, team synergy diff (you're going to be hella lucky if you find a comp game with comms/teamwork like that Kings Row even once a week nowadays), and obviously map diff. Kings Row is favorable to Rein. Numbani is not. He should have gone Winton or something much sooner on Numbani, but tbh he probably gave himself and his team too much benefit of the doubt in being able to pull off that necessary rotation to high ground with Rein. Anyway I think he can climb 100%.

7:53 bro had some personal beef with that Lucio

The more I hear jay3 read of this guys intro, the bigger and bigger I imagine his head to be, but then watching his gameplay, I take it back

this guy is very specific on his details in is games

Other than the fact that he needs to use his shield more, I think he needs to pay more attention on tracking the enemy’s ult, especially rien/tank ult. Also he needs to be more aware on there important abilities for example mei wall ana sleep and nade to avoid them.

Id say he is low to mid diamond , he needs to get pumped with constant heals like the first game to win, and only seen 1 significant shatter out of 3 games

honestly this is very much a lucio diff too. The other guy did not understand that ur supposed to basically perma speed in brawl comps and he wasnt rly sticking with his rein in the mirror...

Not in elo hell, he is stuck exactly where he belongs. He isn't bad as Rein, and his hyper aggression and no shield will work on some maps that Rein is good at, but when he gets maps that are not good for Rein, he is outplayed and doomed. If you rank individual games, he will rank high on some maps and low on other. But you can't choose to play only certain maps.

Feel like this guy is playing as a 3rd dps rather then tanking for his team (this is coming from a fellow hard stuck plat Tank)

Can't tell you how many extra fights he would have won (including a bast ult during first game) if he just held block lol. Good stuff tho

Little did Jay3 know that 2 Months later he would get diffed by Kaks on Watch Point Gibralter in this video ``I Secretly SMURFED in a GOLD Scrim in Overwatch 2 (THEY HAD NO IDEA!)``🤣

I don't know why some people are saying he deserves to be higher than plat. If anything, this video proved he deserves his rank. Yeah, he did well on game one, but only because he had a good team and his supports constantly bailed him out when he got in sticky situations, especially Lucio. Look at the second game. Disastrous comms, wasted half the game playing Reinhardt, didn't even know what to do when he went Dva. And when he lost the first round, he barely tried and went Rein again. He has virtually no hero pool, of course that with this he'll never be able to adapt to the people in his ELO, and by extension, never climb. He deserves his rank.

Bro hyped himself up more than anyone ive ever seen

haha that description was beautiful

You said it, he def needs to shield more. He had some really good opportunities too and just never did.

his intro rivaled meek mills dreams and nightmares,my god that was fire 😂😭

See this is exactly how I play Rein too, but I get told I’m “off doing my own thing” or “not helping the team” but I’m literally telling my team here’s what imma do.

For Numbani, Lifeweaver can help Rein so you can say he's a viable pick here.

when my friends say let me cook i tell them dont burn the rice but this guy hes better than gordan ramsey

Jay was so impressed he pulled out the duck

Out of all the paragraphs I have seen... This was definitely one didn't seem as handmade, just because of such exquisite vocabulary. If it truly was forged by such a wonderful writer, then amazing job.

I don't think he blocked a single shatter

He played well definitively above plat but not quite masters

His play style would drive me nuts.

he held is own, not only 2 ranks above his current, but also on probably nearly 200 ping. as a fellow brit i picked his accent up a mile away so playing on us east is tough, but he still played well despite that

This dude has to be the official Reinhart himself.

Jay3 is so handsome and buffed

It’s really simple! He deserves low elo, because he is not a difference maker, meaning if his team wins a fight it’s not because he did smth but his teammates

The reason why he cancels his pins on those lucio pins, is bcause he has high ping and thinks he misses his pin, so he cancels to get the swing damage. Thats a ping dif, not a rein mistake.

To be honest, I feel like he did very well for being a Plat player, I definitely think he deserves the rank up, his coms and aggressiveness are solid, he can definitely learn to play a bit more passive at times, but he did the most he could for the 2nd team, I barely heard much from the 2nd team in terms of comms, and I can tell it was definitely a team diff. Well done Kaks

3:34 |"I will say HeE gOt walled off- "

Just the reaction to block shatter as soon as he hear hammer down!

if this video was shown to anyone without context they wudnt make out that the guy was in plat

I think I’m a really good Reinhardt too, but what I’ve learned is that Reinhardt needs communication between his teammates. He’s one of the heroes that actually requires a lot of controlling of your teammates ults and when to aggro and when to back out.

im ngl, his first team support were insane w him. second team didn't know how to support him.

guy probably never puts up his shield bc he would play with plats who couldn't do as well with it compared to a masters player. he most likely developed some habits from playing in plat for so long

Hear me out, hear me out. Yall ever watch finding Nemo 😂😂

Kaks really wrote that letter like a he was rein himself

That opening reminds me of [REDACTED] when he played Reinhardt... before the bad things happened...

based on these few games he did fine for a plat especially that first game, he could probably hit diamond but then again, if others could solo climb out of plat, or even me then why he cant? it just makes sense to climb if you diff enemy plat tank every game, but maybe he just struggles when its not rein map or perfect comp for rein like in the first game

5:50 I noticed that watching the first 5 minutes he barely uses his shield. Just flashes it so not blocking much dmg from team

I got 11 hours in Reinhardt, second to brig at 13hr, the only thing Kaks did better than I was communication. Platinum is generous.

what a great experience! super fun and wholesome. i learned quite a bit from playing

They way jay spiked the duck had me dead 😂

That description was the best.

I was hard stuck plat for so long back in OW1. The new ranked system with shitty matchmaking didn't help, but I started queing with my friends who are Masters and Diamond elo. We literally win almost every single game, and I am no crutch. I pull MORE than my own weight, and do significantly well for a "Plat player". I started playing on my friends accounts and quickly got more than one role through Plat and into Diamond. I am finally making progress. So yes elo hell is real, but just on my main account LOL

Definitely not the worst Reinhardt I've ever seen. Could make it out to Diamond for sure. Needs a bigger hero pool for Masters. Reinhardt I think is... kind of terrible right now. He gets beat up so often by multiple DPS and Zen is played much more often now, not to mention the other Tanks themselves. I mostly play Sigma now and have had multiple deathless games/rounds in comp around that level. Things to get better at: Shield more for your teammates. If you play support a lot, you know what it's like to be on your own after the Tank leaves you to DPS during a team fight, ESPECIALLY Reinahrdt. If you keep track of the kill feed and know your team is ahead, you can straight up stop DPSin' as Rein and hold shield for your teammates to kill or supports to heal. It's often way better because Rein's swings are slow and even if you can kill them in 2-3 swings, it's like 10 seconds the enemy killing your teammates. Better to have more teammates alive for tempo. Charges were pretty bad, specifically after shatter. You could swing hammer to a better charge position and then charge. You didn't charge the stunned enemies out of your teammates shooting which was good. Learn corner swings for Rein and know which side the hammer is going to swing on so you can get faster hits in. This is essential at higher levels so you can get kills faster and DPS before the enemy supports can heal them up or Moira fade. It makes a huge difference. You can't really one-trick tanks anymore in OW2 and for sure can't do it as Reinhardt ** I posted this and then saw Joystick and another at Rank 21/22 only Rein.

you should take 5 people who were actually in elo hell and let them group up and rank up

7:55 it’s Reinhardt instincts I I play support I know well enough

If he don't deserve masters one thing he's good at is speech and drama lol

You're never doing these when I watch twitch, so I just watch here. Still good!

His supports are crazy

I read a comment “He shattered their ego” LOL

Solo ulting the fleeing Lucio was hilarious

He plays like the rein in the lore, and in kings row he did a better job but it showed a lot of weakness on the other maps. Once he finds a good balance, he’ll be really good-and he definitely made a few mistakes with charges and shatters that cost the team for sure, but that could be attributed to ping so I won’t critique any of those atm

The only reason he stuck in elo hrll is bc he doesn’t use shield and mostly relies on his supports but since this is master the supports are better so he can actually play like this

Mei and bastion are 2 amazing counters for rein and he still did quite good no cap

Bro, Kaks’s story was fantastic

12:11 this right here is what sets him as a plat and not higher, had plenty of time to react, had a full health shield, team all grouped on cart yet he doesn't put shield facing up to block the bastion ult damage which ends up killing him. This twitch guy was overhyping the rein way too much, he has potential but from what I saw he deserves the plat rank.

Honestly there are a ton of good players in every tier, the difference is usually that the higher you get the less mistakes you make and the more you communicate.

Three very convincing wins for one team with either tank seems like a team dif

i wish ranked was like this all the time when people talk

As a moira main id love to play with this kind of Reinhardt😂

he's def at least diamond, if he was more passive in some situations he'd be masters, but I think he's developed the agro play style for playing in plat and KNOWING he's better

If I am always watching 3 weeks behind, then I'm always right on time!

Tbh i feel that his aggression is only permissible when he has those great heals. Good comms and atuff though, but he needs to shield more, def. Perhaps he gets too excited sometimes and whifs shattere

The moment the plat said i firestrike pharahs and mercys i knew he didnt deserve masters

I recently got into masters but never had a lucio/bap or ana i always got moira and mercy

I think lower rank reins are used to being aggressive asf and not really needing their shield. Allies just pocket the tank and the enemy team panics and fights about how good the rein is lmao

havent been the biggest fan of the elo hell vids but this one swayed me. Someone actually punching up for once

His man problem then is flexibility right? Limiting aggressiveness to a point where his team allows him to play as well as the other team. Can’t play as aggressive against mei and if you don’t have great healers or support selections etc. then being a 1 trick rein on top of it likely is what holds him back? Edit- I did comment this before the end of the video lol

He reminds me of bumper, the ex vancouver titans/runaway main tank

3:00 my man doesn't change camera direction to hit that mei with the tip of his hammah :c

He sure is a great storyteller

nah he whiffed a bunch of shatters and mains rein so he will be stuck there

Not using shield and not swapping isnt the main issue. Positioning/ playing the objective and playing atound ennemies cooldowns is what you need to work on. Change your perspective that you need to catch kills to playing for space. Doing so will make you understand a lot better that you can commit/slowly push instead of afk at choke and then charge into them. By pressuring pushing to hold space will allow you to see clearly how easy it is to punish players using their cds being out of position. So simply put, play for space and dont waste your cooldowns. Your gameplay will look calmer and smooth. You will realize how you are getting kills without dying at all. Watch top1 rein getting there in challenge not using shield once. Its all about positioning and cooldown management

the intro made sense when i heard the australian accent😭😭

Let’s go we finally see someone who proves it

This guy has it all he might be higher than masters. If KAKS sees this keep up the amazing gameplay and grind your amazing and I know you will get higher ranks soon.

He’s giving up a lot of free value by dying before shield runs out