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

His play style only works when there are comms. Nothing wrong with that, but in metal ranks there is zero comms so he is just going to get left out to dry in all of his games. He needs to have a little more caution to his own self-preservation. He won't have the lucio speeding him out and the bap always using the immortality correctly in plat. That's why he's stuck.

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)

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

He’s like allergic to using his shield lol

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

This is NOT solo queue, this rein is not meant to be Masters. He's Plat 1 tops. He charges in LOS of everyone taking a shittone of damage, his Baptiste might deserve Grandmaster to be fair because he saved him 1000 times. Same as Lucio. When 5 people are communicating and know your intent and understand it AND not second-guess it, then sure you're gonna have a great time. But try this in solo queue, he would be 4/18 with 6k damage max.

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.

7:53 bro had some personal beef with that Lucio

Max PLAT is no way better ... if you play like this in plat your team will flame you. You forget his team is way better than plat, and they play around him even if he never blocks dmg.

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

They way jay spiked the duck had me dead 😂

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.

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%.

Jay was so impressed he pulled out the duck

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

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

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

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

Bro hyped himself up more than anyone ive ever seen

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.

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

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)

haha that description was beautiful

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

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...

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?

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

that reign showing he just built different in that GM lobby. G fricken G

Love to see my second favourite KZfaqr upload

used to level up lots of accounts, and it was hard to learn to turn down the tempo & aggression on tanks --feeding to take space that metals wont even be aware to use, while they 4 man stack cart making it move that 30% faster.

That description was the best.

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

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

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

Solo ulting the fleeing Lucio was hilarious

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

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

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!)``🤣

Best description by far

love the vids

best plattank ever

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

He sure is a great storyteller

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

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.

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

Great game

His play style would drive me nuts.

Kaks really wrote that letter like a he was rein himself

This dude has to be the official Reinhart himself.

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

You need to watch KR again. Look at the supports pov and see how much that Lucio helped the plat rein. Same with the Bap

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

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, Kaks’s story was fantastic

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

this guy is very specific on his details in is games

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

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

He played well definitively above plat but not quite masters

His supports are crazy

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

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

i get how this guy feels, im a high gold/ plat rein, i feel like my team is bringing me down with bad plays and no comms cus whenever i play with my teammates(who are high silver but have good comms and listen to me) we constantly stomp games but then the elo i get from those is taken when i dont play with them cus they only play for a couple hours and i get matched with the people with no comms, or people trolling/throwing

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

I don't think he blocked a single shatter

why is bro so poetic😂

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

14:16 look at chat 😂

I read a comment “He shattered their ego” LOL

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.

jeez jay bro you needa hit leg day

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.

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

hes cooking

He been watching Bowie lol

How do you do the Eli hell stuff

Jay3 is so handsome and buffed

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

shoutout to ITzSesh for his commend in the chat

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Not a tank player myself but you can see his team carry in the first game. They made up for a lot of his mistakes and saved him. He swings when nobody is nearby instead of holding shield and his lack of hero pool will keep him in lower elo. He has huge potential tho

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