Z792 said:Good luck to anyone trying to finish this one before it gets shut down. Thank jebus there was a rank reset earlier this year, or else I probably wouldn't have been able to.
Just wanted to leave a few pointers:
Biggest tip I can give is You MUST win every single one of your placement matches to have any hope
RANKS:
Obsidian will require reaching 2450 MMR. If you ace your placement matches, the game should start you somewhere around 2250 MMR, leaving only 200 points to grind out. If you don't do well in your placement matches (even if you lose only 1) you can start way below 2000, even down to <1500 in some cases.
You gain/lose anywhere from 1 point to 20ish per match, depending on the rank of the player you are against. If you're a plat winning against a gold, expect to see 4-6 points per game. If you are matched with an even lower rank, you'll get less (all the way down to 1 point per game).
This means that in a best-case scenario, you're looking at somewhere around 50 games if all goes well. Not terrible, but it gets old fast.
The Xbox version is pretty dead - I just used the SEA servers and didn't come across any randoms. Make sure to disable crossplay in the settings. Queue time to find my alt was typically between 60-200 seconds, so each full game takes around 5-6 minutes at worst.
GAMEPLAY:
I definitely think the fastest method is to just kill the enemy queen. Can easily finish each round in under a minute that way. I'd be very hesitant to grind out your kills/berries/snail in ranked because...
Idle kick is VERY aggressive. It's like a 15 second timer - if you (and this goes for all 4 controllers if you're boosting), are stationary for more than a few seconds, the game will kick you. It'll count as a loss and you'll get a 15 minute ranked ban. Be very careful of this, especially during your placement matches.
Easy method around it is to rubberband all controllers.
do you know when abouts the rank reset was? when I boosted obisidan in february it took damn near 16 hours total across 3 and some change days doing it due to it refusing to give the right placements and stuff, finishing my stuff up and helping a friend out and might need to make all new dummies at this point to essentially ladder boost it up for him.