Overwatch 2\u2019s Top 500 rank includes Diamond players as community fears game is now \u201cdead\u201d BlizzardOverwatch 2\u2019s Top 500 rank now features players in Diamond and the community is fearing Blizzard\u2019s hero shooter may be all but \u201cdead.\u201d When it comes to Competitive play in Overwatch 2, there\u2019s no bigger accomplishment than reaching the Top 500. As the label implies, this spot is reserved for the 500 best players in a given role in a certain region. The cream of the crop, if you will. Throughout the game\u2019s history, climbing to this echelon hasn\u2019t been easy. Former Overwatch League pros and content creators alike all but dominated the top ranks season over season, though that no longer appears to be the case. Players ranked in Diamond, the game\u2019s fourth highest tier, are now cracking into the Top 500 as the player base evidently declines. Overwatch 2 player Remy first circulated the discovery on July 4, sarcastically stating Overwatch 2 isn\u2019t a \u201cdead game.\u201d The post shows the very bottom of the highest rank with 10 Diamond players among the 500 very best in the game. With Master, Grandmaster, and Champion ranks all ahead of it, Diamond isn\u2019t exactly the sign of one of Overwatch 2\u2019s top performers. At least, it never used to be. The Diamond rank sits in the very middle of the ranking system, yet with fewer players engaging in Competitive play, this \u2018middle\u2019 has now been pushed to the top. It\u2019s worth noting this particular set of players specifically falls under the Top 500 leaderboard for the Tank role in the Americas region. It\u2019s not representative of all Top 500 leaderboards around the globe, purely the least-desired role in Overwatch 2 today. Not to mention, some regions are more populated than others. Nonetheless, the revelation has sparked a wave of concern for the hero-shooter once again. \u201cSomeday it\u2019ll be studied how Blizzard could fumble this IP so badly,\u201d one player said. \u201cTime for Overwatch 2: 2,\u201d another player joked. Though plenty of others fired back at the claims of Overwatch 2 being \u201cdead,\u201d arguing the Top 500 threshold is only so low at this point in time as Season 11 is relatively fresh. Furthermore, these days, players are required to get 50 wins, not just 50 games played, but 50 wins, in order to earn their rank. \u201cNot everyone has the luxury to no life 50 wins,\u201d other players chimed in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Overwatch 2\u2019s Top 500 rank includes Diamond players as community fears game is now \u201cdead\u201d BlizzardOverwatch 2\u2019s Top 500 rank now features players in Diamond and the community is fearing Blizzard\u2019s hero shooter may be all but \u201cdead.\u201d When it comes to Competitive play in Overwatch 2, there\u2019s no bigger accomplishment than reaching the Top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}