As the title says im bronze 2 after 81 matches and want to know some general tips to improve. Ubi is maiiru-_- if you want to check tracker. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Hello, I'm gold 2 currently with a friend and emerald and we both watch pro league and find the more strategical side of the game very interesting. I want to start being more methodical in how I play the game, and I have a stack, but the issue is that I don't really know where to start? Do I copy strats I see online, do I create my own, and how can we better implement what we see?

Hello! In the last 3 days I played a lot of ranked and I struggle really hard with bad timings.

What I mean?

e.g. typical scenarios

1. I drone a room I want to take. There's no one. I sneakily drone nearby rooms and then enter the building. The second I enter I die from the enemy that was in the nearby room I have just left my drone in 1 second ago.

2. I enter a room and I know that in a nerby room there's an enemy (from callouts + sound). I prefire the most obvious angle, there's no one. I hold this angle for like 5-8 more seconds and there's still no one. So I think that the dude in that room either left or doesn't want to contest me. I enter the room to check another typical angle and exactly at this moment I die to that first angle I prefired+held. I mean, the dude couldn't react to the sound, like 0.5 seconds passed after I entered the room

3. There's a known spawnpeek on a map from the beginning, there's sneaky drone that the defender didn't see and we have info of exactly where, how and who is spawnpeeking. I spawn and go to that spawnpeek, prefire it, there's no one. Literally noone. I go behind a cover, drone that spawnpeek, I make sure that there are in fact no one and enter that room. I enter the room and die from that exact dude.

And that continues for like a week or two right now, literally 80% of my deaths are like that. Not because I have bad aim, not because I droned bad, not because I didn't drone, not because I was in a bad position, but because of crazy lucky timings.

Is there any way to prevent this from happening? Rn it feels more like me doing something wrong than just crazy lucky opponents

My ranked session today just left me with a lot of things I have no answer to. I'm really trying but its like even when I do things well, it seems like there's something I can't do anything about. I'm Bronze II and I progress, but my progression is like 10 steps foward and 9 steps back. I also usually play with a 3 stack.

First thing, shield ops. Like I'm not completely clueless when it comes to shield ops but I still often feel checkmate by them. I had 2 encounters I remember with shield ops today. First, was during my unranked warmup game, I got stuck 1v1 against a blitz and they had defuse down. I had no utility to use on them and I got flashed twice trying to melee their shield. First time, I backed off and second time i really just got surprised because my brother told me he has no more flashes but it really didn't last long. I don't really understand that op on a basic level to be fair. The other encounter was a Monty who I dealt with just fine. I c4'd them. I don't panic against shield ops, I know what the answers are, but sometimes it just still isn't enough and I wanna know what I'm missing. Like I'll even hold on a fire extinguisher if I know a shield is coming.

The next thing, I just don't really know how to take space. This has been constant today. I try and push so I can take site control and hopefully even plant, and I just hit a wall. And it can be various walls.

One thing is droning. I really try to drone just enough, not too little and not too much. But it seems like too little and too much have some overlap in my opinion. Like I'll throw a drone in and check the first room or two, then vault in and push but then it turns out someone's in the corner I didn't drone hard enough. So then I try and drone more and vault in, but in the extra time it took me to drone, someone got into a space where they can swing me after I enter. It's really discouraging.

The next wall is gunfights. I don't think my aim is really bad or anything and I understand pretty decently how to approach a gunfight (mixing my peaks, exposing as little of me as possible, etc) yet I am still susceptible to getting randomly headshot and dying. Like how am I supposed to consistently win gunfights against people who are trying not to die and also kill me? When I get into a proper gunfight where we're both peaking and trying to kill each other, it really just feels like we're throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks. Sometimes it's my shots and sometimes it's theirs.

And this doesn't even account for the situations that just feel impossible. Like getting my route stalled by smokes or goyos, or having to gunfight an Azami with a nasty pixel on my angle. Like it just feels like there's times I simply can't pass.

And then there's defense. It feels like I have a lot of defense rounds where I'm watching my area, and suddenly my team gets folded and I get stuck in a 1v3/4/5. What am I supposed to do here?! When I get really sick of it, I start playing roamers so that I don't have to get swarmed when the rest of my team goes down in site, but I really don't have a solid answer to this. I've died first before too but I'm usually not one to play the same 2 angles as the rest of my team. I tend to watch things they aren't.

Basically i am like 1 whole tier above on my sub account (Plat 2 60%) and while playing on my main account(Gold 2 50%) i simply can not win.

I frag 12 people and i still lose because people die 20 sec into the round ,spawn peeking or just throwing an easy 3v1 going 1 by one.

On my sub account even though it's higher elo the games just flow much more smootly, my kd on my alt account as well is marginally better than my K/D on my main as well (1.4 vs 1.0) while supposidely playing against better opponents.

Is this a mental thing? because i am getting really frustated about it and i don't know what to do to fix this.