Most people who say this will be the first to complain that their win limit for the first half of the month is now ~zero in a system where there are ranks and no MMR.
Yes and no.
No, because: I can avoid playing wild for months, then start playing again after a break and still never see more than 3 digits in this mode.
Yes, because: if you look exactly for top-1, not top-100, or for top-500, not top-1500, especially in the standard mode, you’d better avoid taking long breaks.
They don’t need to have a good one to catch you in a chain:
When I climbed too high, I faced former champs and they were extremely hard opponents. Like once I didn’t know that my opponent was a champion, but I had such a difficult game that I complained about it to my friends and they told me who was that monster. I’ll definitely have a losestreak if I climb high enough again.
When I fall too low (like now), I face players who finished somewhere near top-5000 and they do a lot of mistakes. Like yesterday someone wasted 10 mana Warrior’s spell without checking my secret (it was Ice Trap). Ofc I have a winstreak.
So the different ends of the chain can be quite far from each other, but you will be between “I can’t win against these very strong opponents” and “I can’t lose against those very weak opponents “ anyway. If you are not among the strongest or the weakest.
Don’t forget pls, here we are not talking about whether your skills are estimated accurately or they are not. We are talking about whether you can be catched in a wins-loses chain without rigging, just by the MMR system, or you can’t be.