You need to keep the silver player anonymous, then have the other players guess who the silver was at the end. Also lifts some pressure off the actual silver player because not all the eyes are on him.

Honestly this shows how useful high elo comms are, coordination is very important and he can really shine with info, silver players just don’t talk man

this would have been an amazing "Can 9 diamond players guess the silver player?" video

For anyone wondering. dstn stayed in silver until E4: A3 where he hit Gold 2. Then through the entire of E5 dstn was Plat 2. He has not yet placed in E6: A1 but god bless we hope he climbs up that ranking ladder if he does. God bless dstnlive you finally made it out!

"if theres no support, be the support" what a great mind this man has

The silver got a great aim and a decent game sense. He just needs to be more consistent and i believe he can peak diamond with his potential. I was SPEED Exalt and i was on the silver’s team. Thanks for the opportunity to let me play in this event. I hope your channel will grow bigger, Eggwick ;).

Legend says that Dustin is still hard stuck silver

I think he did good. I’m a low elo player but the fact that he held his own is pretty amazing hope he gets diamond

The fact that he performed well under pressure is something in itself

im an iron 2 and I think I deserve wood 1 Edit 6/27: i an now bronze and I think I deserve air 1

22:44 he flicked on him through a wall

I’d give him high gold/low plat. He wasn’t consistent and even though he bot fragged the last game he had 10 assists, so he was still contributing in some way.

finally sombody who thinks that he deserves a higher elo *and* can play like it

I think something that helped him play in a lobby is trust. Knowing that DIAMONDS are watching your back or holding angles for you gives more ideas. update: diamond 3 now, i was silver when i made the comment. yeah diamonds r pretty much glorified silvers lol

This is the best advice. Whether it’s your team or not, all you need to do is just carry harder

Subbed. Loved the video!

I can't believe killua performed so well in the diamond lobby. So proud of his journey

Man’s playing like 3 ranks above him and isnt 0-55. That in itself is impressive

I love your little avatar so much, it's perfect

"If there aint no support, BE the support"

We are silver hardstucks: -we have decent aim -we have decent game sense -but we zone out a lot -get killed while looking at the map -watch the same spot every round hoping to make some clips -focus to much on one angle while exposed to others -ego peak too much if we get tilted in a game -think we are good at one agent if we frag out of one lucky game -we know what mistakes we do, but forget to implement/correct them on the spot

Me watching this realising that the "smurf" I got to play against a few matches ago is actually hardstuck and supposed to be diamond

Gratz on Gold 2 Dustin!

been a while, dstnlive is an eggwick channel legend

He was very impressive for his rank, for sure. I think he was making too many mistakes for diamond, but I wouldn't be surprised if he gets it soon. His aim is good and he knows how to play off of his team and utilities, but consistency and I think agent experience might be a downside. I'm thinking low to mid platinum might be a better placement. Still, he didn't really hold his team back and that's worth a lot.

I didn't expect Dustin to be the silver in this video and I can say from personal experience, being one of his friends and being in a stack with a friend group, he's pretty consistent and I believe he should be in a higher rank. I believe the only reason he can't rank up is because his teammates from said stack, which also include me because I know I suck and our stack drags him down. Not to say our stack is crappy it's just he preforms better than us. His comms, mechanical skill and game sense surpass his elo, so I do hope him the best at ranking up Edit: dstn has now gotten above silver

Valorant Curious is a great channel but your commentary makes this way more engaging and entertaining!

I mean aims pretty good tbh, early on when he's playing with the team he seems ok, when he's doing his own thing he looks lost, he stands in the open a lot, he makes a lot of noise, he takes fights when he should hang back, there is a lot of game sense stuff he's not going very well and his utility he just seems to throw whenever he has it.

He didn’t do too bad. I think he could really progress fast if he worked on gamesense and util a bit more. His aim seens pretty good!

He did bot frag on the last game, but he was making an impact on the game. He had 10 assists, which either means he was helping his team with util or getting good damage off

Ranking up from a rank is more than just getting good, you need to be able to adapt to different teams, which might be difficult if a team doesn't play exactly like you want them to, so that could cause you to lose games.

What he said about low ELO being unpredictable is really true, weird shit happens down here

"its literally no support, like my family" he deserves more than diamond but fr his aim and game sense is decent, can't wait for his glowup

"better than getting no support , be the support" I can feel the pain

5:14 and he sacrifice...THE KAY/0!!!!!!!!!

DSNT: throws a normal fade eye. Eggwick: what is this lineup?

Killua mentioned an issue dstn has in the 3rd game, referring to his 'movement', but I don't think that's really the issue, it's his 'pathing'. It's catching out high-elo players because his position isn't expected, but it's only working because the rest of his team is expected to play 'properly'. It's not necessarily a bad thing, knowing what other people expect and subverting their expectations in surprising ways is a legitimate tactic in high level games. Knowing when and where to apply such tactics is the key factor. Anyway, despite what I was saying, I don't think the silver was doing this deliberately or consciously. If it's not a decision he's actively making, it's a mis-play to hold some of the angles he chooses to hold, and to push up into the places he takes gunfights from. Due to the chaotic nature of silver, nobody is in the right position, so holding extreme off-angles isn't particularly useful. Dstn's gamesense and knowledge of how to entry/clear/retake sites needs a little bit of tightening up (i.e. frantically clearing corners while continuing to run, rather than methodically isolating and checking angles quickly with good counter-strafing,). I wouldn't say dstn deservers diamond yet, but it's not a stretch for him to get there either.

It’s his decision making, running with his knife out 24/7 and approaches to situations that make him silver…he just has good aim

First couple seconds of the round mans getting that gawk gawk 3000

Back when i used to play i was hardstuck silver forever, when i finally got to gold. it was basically immediately to plat. people say it's not your team it's you, but it really honestly is the team sometimes.

"nobody seems out of place here" Meanwhile, Mega Knight dying repeatedly in the most ridiculous blunder possible every time he is spectated

YESSIR SO CAN I GET THAT SELF PROMO 🥶

Egg sounds like fry when he talks with surprise

at the beginning *breathes in* "les go" in a high pitched voice

From a pure spectating perspective(I'm not particularly high elo, but I've taught several newer players and I watch coaching vods a lot for fun), some things that stood out are 1. He's a really good shot, definitely more consistent than me... Though sometimes he takes fights he doesn't need to/shouldn't take(several times ascent mid) 2. He uses utility with team pretty well(on Kayo), but his positioning/awareness needs some practice(several times he is going really wide or standing in the open for no reason 6:21, 6:53, 9:36, 12:40, 16:00, 17:27) 3. Stop swapping to knife for no reason - you see high elo players do it but only when they are very confident they won't need to take a gunfight, but dstn seems to quickswap for no reason in the open or in the middle of gunfights. Pulls out utility a lot while in the open, tho some of it is just unlucky timing(9:20, 11:47). Overall for sure plat - utility usage, aim, teamplay for sure, but game sense and spatial awareness just needs some practice against higher level players(a lot of the issues I pointed out I see a lot with lower level players because they don't/can't punish them, so playing consistently with higher elo players will force him to learn and he should be able to get diamond no problem) Edit: added some timestamps

The difference between high rank and low rank is consistency, thats what the ranking system works well for. 100 games and being diamond doesnt mean shit, 1000 games and being diamond does however. You were right about him possibly having a good game and others perhaps not, if you did this with him 10 times you might see him start to fall off and the others outperform him because they are more consistent with their plays and aim across multiple games, which is probably why they are diamond and hes not. Also, you dont know how he reacts and works with other teammates on a regular basis. Clearly he already has the mentality "my teammates always suck and im just better" which is enough to ruin any team play. He cant do that here because they are all diamond and hes not. I think he might be gold or plat because he has issues in areas where your little experiment doesnt cover.

I love the rgx vandal its so clean and nice

As a silver player. This man's aim is better than almost any teammate that I've had in a game

Sticking the spike through the sova ult was honestly pretty pog. He was either forced out to an angle a defender could shoot him or he could of stuck the plant amd put pressure on the outnumbered defenders to push in. I liked that play a lot.

Something he could work on that’ll be a huge help in the long run is isolate angles and make sure you are visible to the fewest angles possible. That is one way he died a lot this game was peaking one angle but doing it wrong to where he was visible to another 2-3 angles and died cause someone was watching the other one

Getting some “support” from Jett already 🤣🤣

I relate to him, I get teammates who are just SO bad and people who throw, whilst I'm up against people with God like aim. Me and Dustin have similar skill set, I'm silver 2 and have been playing 2-3 months.

20:40 Where you mention predicting lower elo. As a new player coming into silver, what I've noticed it comes down to if your opponents are observant and thinking. It's hard to trick an opponent if they're just playing random and not paying attention to when you dart, nade, place your viper wall etc. You end up outthinking yourself in the end. But in higher elo where they're paying attention to more details about positioning and utility (and have better coms) and are attempting to predict your play is where you can play more mind games.

He's probably worse in an uncoordinated environment. In a 5-stack with 4 players that mostly know what they're doing, his decent ability use and good aim get to shine, probably quite a bit more than in a regular game. That'd be my guess.

this is what im doing: main brim smoke, winstreak climbing ranks. "it's not all about the kills", "you can go omen smoke and delay for your team to get picks" you just have to choose your battles

I think a lot of hardstuck low ranked players would not only fit in, but pull their own weight in a higher ranked lobby, because they possess certain skills that don't neccecarily help them in the lower ranks, be that from playing other fps games or whatever. It's just hard to get over that roadbump, but when you finally do, your rank skyrockets

Feel like this dude deserves gold or plat maybe even diamond as he said, he just needs some game sense

I'm Bronze and I think I deserve Iron.

I think he deserves more than silver to be sure. Playing this well, with his team, consistently and having a heavy impact on the game says a lot by itself. Having said that, the whole jumping, flipping his knife out, then gun, got him killed a few times and is habitual. Not sure he deserves diamond but I feel like he'd improve quickly in Gold and/or Plat and would consistently do well. Diamond might be a stretch.

You should’ve made him play two games. One game full of silvers, and the second game in the lobby with diamonds

im a team player, i tend to follow the consistency of what helps my team. i think this guy has really good team work, which is what makes him so much better. he has skill along with the ability to help his team REALLY well without trying to out perform or show off.

Egg is the type of guy who would roast a egoistic person about their ranks and gameplay on regular basis, but this vid is so different from his usual doings, that it is fun and lovely to watch

29:20 I CANT HAHAAHHAHAH THIS ,,hi daddy” IN THE LEFT CORNER BHAHAHAHAHAHH

i would really like a section at the end where you give your thoughts and feedback, great vid!

You should do a stream where you can only use guns that ur agent uses in trailers or offical valo art

I feel that the sliver has great potential but when he holds and angle he is exposed to 2 or 3 angles so he is at a disadvantage

Great Video, I think the content is great only thing i will say is that when you are deciding if someone deserves a rank you should try to move the player between teams to gauge his impact on maps with a team. So for example its great that you did a best of 3 but if you were trying to see purely how he plays in the rank it would be best to move the player between teams for the players who play the same role as him. Its a lot like seat racing in rowing. because its hard to tell how well people can preform on any given day. you use the two teams to show the difference in play, by swapping the player between teams and seeing if the team starts to roll the other or not. If Team A had the silver and barely wins a BO3 but then you swap him for the initiatior player on team B and then Team A rolls a BO3 2-0 with 13-0 scorelines both times then he wasn't having as much impact as the diamond intiatior player in the lobby. Then its just down to school of thought as well, you want maps that are well known so that players feel comfortable and you want to play both line ups on those maps. Still a fun watch keep making content i am sure you will find a way to translate your brand to new games.

This video is a prime example of how people actually performs with the right comp doing their jobs whilst yes the ranking system is flawed any team doing their jobs can get to the top ranks and thus the people who don't do so get stuck in the lower ranks Also he was kinda like me on r6 solo que stuck in gold yet the moment i get a competent stack to diamond i go

Dstnlive is a rarity of "I'm X low rank but deserve Y higher rank" actually being able to back it up, but maybe not diamond just yet. Certainly above silver level, I could see him getting to plat 2/3 with his current state. Fix the gamesense issues, and for sure he gets to diamond

I think one of the main things I saw from this is that he needs to not use his util out in the open as much and understand that if he plays the same angles/peeks everytime it won’t always work the other team (if they’re good enough) will adapt. But ofher than that he impressed me a lot it was really cool to watch him actually do more than expected. Good job man 👍🏼

his intro is very hilarious and funny. BTW love your videos.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

31:00 that’s what happened when dustin turns the cheats off🤣🤣

I like this idea of playing a silver in Diamond lobby. Keep doing this often :D I loved the convo between Reyna and Kayo haha

As a wood player, i can confirm that we are just seeking revenge everytime on the same spot

Love the video

As someone who played over watch for years, some people are genuinely stuck because of teammates

This man is like one of those anomalies explained by the Architect in The Matrix movies. He actually has the chance to get the rank he thinks he deserves

Storytime, i used to say it was my teammates fault in silver so i desided to play with a imortal friend and we still lost. After that he told me,”play reyna like your going to get a ace every round. The next game i made 27 kill in 14 rounds, we won 13-1. So tbh with you, some teamates are trash but if you give positive vibes and hypes them they are also gonna play a lot better. Edit: im now in gold 3 on my way to plat

One potential problem I saw (I’m iron 3 so I’m probably wrong) he swaps between his gun and knife too much during the middle of the round. Very impressive performance and gunplay by dstn defiantly above silver in my opinion

it’s funny watching dia from different regions lol

This was another really fun video and set of games to be apart of. Thank you so much for the invite. Thank you for being an amazing creator Mr Eggwick and I look forward to seeing more amazing content

There's a difference between being able to play in Diamond and being the difference to climb from Silver to Diamond. Like it or not, if you want to climb you NEED to be the difference aka carry. And by carry I don't only mean kda wise, but communication, IGL abilities, strategy etc. By watching this, his mechanics is definitely there, but his awareness of the enemy position and game sense is just lacking overall. He definitely CAN reach Diamond, it's just a matter of how hard he tries to fix his shortcomings.

This guy definitely deserves high gold - low plat for sure

31:48 thats quite funny coz as long as you can aim and cooperate well and know your rotations without feeding then you can make an impact even if you wont use your utils at all.

love this, finally content that does not screw up ranked games for people

i pretty sure he doesnt deserve silver but also he doesnt deserve diamond too, maybe he deserves gold 2 - 3 For Dustin if you're reading the comments: - you need to stop peeking with abilities in your hands - you need to be more aware of your team's positions - stop pulling your knife in areas you don't have control of - stop using your abilities without taking advantage out of it, its not about using abilities its about using effective abilities and building an edge out of it - stop crouching before shooting and use the scope less so you can strafe quicker between bursts - stop mixing the W key with the A and D while peeking - use the slicing the pie peeking technique in areas where its common for enemy to hold and track corners in areas of potential off angles, and get used to stutter movement

Excellent storytelling. Bravo, mate!

ok my dog just pissed on my chair got me😂😂😂

Honestly, the skill of every player is just so hard to determine by just ranks... Sometimes, getting hardstuck isn't necessarily your fault for not being better. This vid took me back to when I added someone a few months ago after I played with him on a Spike Rush match... We were both at bronze then... Now I'm Silver 2 and he's Immortal 1. Player skill growth is just astounding sometimes

If he finds an LFG team to play with, he can definitely reach diamond. If it’s actually bad teammates, he just needs to find good teammates.

Should do one where they are put in one rank above to rlly reality check people 😂

"my dog p***** on my chair brb" bruh mans said that without hesitation.

I was hardstuck silver, now diamond and I can say theres still alot to learn if youre stuck in silver. Eggwick did say he did better than usual and I assume this was the comms and maybe a bit of mid-game coaching

I've looked at his profil and he reached Platin 1 this act. GG's

The second he said “ on god” I knew it was “cap”

definitely noticed alot of things where im like "thats a silver thing to do" but he has good aim and plays fairly well as far as team support. He should be in gold and from there i think he would have slightly better teams and would improve where he needs to alot quicker

He definetly deserves a higher rank , not diamond but a gold 3 - plat

I always find things like this interesting because guides will tell you to do things to improve but those things are irrelevant in low Elo, people don't play by logic its like ace or lose in low elo solo queue haha but , i imagine that he's spent a long time trying to improve through guides as he has some good habits and bad ones mixed with teammates who actually communicate and actually play their roles has a large impact here but you can still see the difference in the players but its the little things that really make the difference between silver and diamond, he can easily hold his own and that's really impressive!

Win or lose, he knows what he is doing.

He has a w mental for support like if u can’t have the support be the support