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Games, Ranked Play, translated from Japanese

Kagariya Renma Eyes Overwatch’s Champion Rank After Five-Hour Ranked Session

The Uniraid! streamer said he sits at Grandmaster 5, five promotions short of the top tier, and finished the night on Soldier: 76.

Kagariya Renma during “【 OW 】あと2勝で今期もグラマス!【ゆにれいど!/ 火狩夜れんま】,” a broadcast that ran 5h 22m. Press to play from YouTube

Kagariya Renma, of the Uniraid! group, played more than five hours of ranked Overwatch on Thursday night across support, damage and tank, then closed the stream by saying he wants to reach Champion, the game’s top rank. He said he is at Grandmaster 5 and would need five more promotions to get there.

The stream was titled as a push for two more wins to hold Grandmaster again this season. Most of the early going was on support, with Kiriko the hero he said he plays most. He called Overwatch the hardest shooter he plays but also the most fun. About an hour in, a Super Chat congratulated him on Grandmaster, and a second one arrived as he signed off; he read both aloud. Later on support he said he had posted 24,000 healing in a match for the first time, and he put his support Challenger Points at 1,767, adding that he would like to make the top 500 if he can.

“I want to get to Champion.” — Kagariya Renma, near the end of the stream

Late in the night he tried tank, a role he plays rarely. He said tank can be fun once it is learned, but that it is hard to do well without a group. By his count he had lost about four matches since first saying he would go to bed after a win.

After a short break he switched to Soldier: 76, a fast hero he said he loves for his speed, and joked that he would marry Soldier from then on. The last match put him against an opposing Soldier: 76 player he said had about ten times his hours on the hero. His side won, and he said he had died 14 times, more than he had in a long while. He ended the stream after that match.

Reading rank figures aloud near the end, he said Grandmaster is about 0.3 percent of players and Champion under 0.1 percent, citing official data published in July 2025. He said Champion will have to wait, and that he planned to play a Zelda remake he bought that day around 7 p.m. the next evening, and Valorant if he wakes early.

This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.

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