The idea behind pinnacle crucible weapons is not everyone will get them. It’s up to you to get better to compete and get them. This season is far easier to rank up than previous with the amount of glory being earned almost doubled. Especially with this shotgun meta it’s easy to predict how apes will play so you have to play to their disadvantages. Learning how maps work will help you out a large amount with this. Also learning strategies for different game-types and sticking with your team even if you can’t talk to them. I solo’d to Lunas the very first season it came out then duo’d and solo’d to recluse and mountaintop this season. The most difficult thing to me was the mountaintop triumph but it’s doable. Play quickplay to increase your skill and gradually go into comp to adapt to the more competitive environment. Bows like The Vow are a great counter for lunas/NF since if you peak a corner and pop out to get headshots, it takes two arrows to kill someone which lets you trade two shots per person without letting the lunas user get the third shot off. Weapons like Le Monarque are incredibly annoying to me when I use Lunas so just think about counters to the weapons
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The main problem isn't exactly earning them so much as it is the game itself. When people who haven't even reached Heroic in any season can face off against a 4 stack of Luna/ NF you have a problem. If you're consistently being matched against people with k/d ratios that are at least 2X higher you won't get it if just 1 guy should be able to hold his own against half your team. My highest was a 2.45 kda, should I be matched with people who don't even have close to a 1.3 in a game mode that in every game should support SBMM? Getting pinnacle weapons is more luck based or if you're truly desperate money based than anything.
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I agree that the matchmaking can be dumb sometimes, however some of these guys with the higher k/d’s can be outsmarted. I have a 1.6 k/d (2.14 k/d/a ) and it’s the highest out of my clan but we’ve gone up against one of these teams running NF/Dust/Ward and we managed to outfox them using tactics based on their weak points and our clan is more raid-based than pvp. Once you get closer to fabled it’s inevitable to match against teams with these weapons with every season I’ve gone to fabled I see them in heroic and up. If you can just get a few people that you can talk to and you keep your cool in a match, that is very important, you can have big upset matches against people who seem to be better. Also right now the pvp comp player base is small so you will run into these sweatier people often but you can learn a lot about what you need to work on from the match if you lose