If I do no mistakes I lose half of the games out of random luck. Surely 6100 rating can’t be already that high skilled.
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Between 6-7 k is when the pace of play really accelerates. Usually right around 7k is when it starts to feel like i gotta lock in to keep climbing lol.
Easiest way to gain an easy 1500 mmr is to swap from mobile to pc xD
I play on mobile now, but was just under 10k when i played on pc. That was when BGs first came out.
I get bored and swap modes every few months
Considering many BG player have never even reached 6K yes it’s a rating that requires you to just start learning a new skill set to keep climbing. In this current meta it’s even worse because you have to recognize exactly what hero is best with the anomaly given then take it one step further and figure out the build for that lobby that is best.
Many times players will see something like Undead and Beasts in the lobby and get offered that early, which is fine for tempo but they have to know when to trade out of that build if they see Demons/Elementals or Murlocs are in. Although if nobody is building them you could be okay. That’s when keeping track of the lobby starts to benefit you as a player.
Tier 7 anomaly is the worst because you can make some VERY degenerate builds. It also happens to be the most common anomaly so that doesn’t help. The change to Sanders helped stop this but there’s still several ugly tier 7 builds out there.
As an example i will start already counterplaying players boards on turn 7-8 because i know they are trying to switch into a power play and if i can disrupt them if i have a good chance of keeping my health above cap and also pushing them below cap and possibly out of the lobby. The best BG players will always tell you to play to keep yourself above cap more than anything else. If you can do that it will ensure you get into top 4 more frequently. Then you can learn the other things to increase your rating.
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No, it is not high.
I am between 6000 and 7000 too.
I watched how high level players play and the difference is great.
Let’s admit that we are just mediocre casual BG players.
It is absolutely OK to be somewhere in the middle if we don’t claim that we know something about BG better than high level players.
Good advice, I’d say its important for newer players to learn this first too.
There are situations or heros where you want to use your health as a resource (going below cap early) to spike in the later game to push for first place. Transitions and knowing when to go for first take reps to really get good at
I mainly play duos now, but I see a common mistake in some of my teamates. They go all in on the tribe they want to play or get first instead of playing the shops and for early tempo or economy.
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Everybody reaches 6K what are you talking about?
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Read what i posted a second time. I said many never reach 6K. I didn’t say everyone does. That was someone else saying that.
90% of players don’t reach 6k. That was based on the numbers blizzard gave a few seasons ago but its only got worst Sure you can argue that at least 50% dont’ try
But Everybody reaches 6k has never been a thing particularly when players try to not reach 6k because it improves there win rate.
That’s subjective. The people who go 10,000 rating and much higher have obscene levels of APM and that’s close or even better to the people who go Legend 1 every few weeks.
Basically don’t sell yourself short just because you’re not the best player in the world.
Are we obviously NOT the best players in the world: yes. Are we horrible: no.
Something that lowers my rating a little, is that I try to always pick the Hero that has the “1st” achievement uncompleted AND I’m F2P so my heroes are about half of the time the worst in the game.
But I really don’t believe that’s a huge factor to the point of not being able to go top 4 if I’m very careful though sure I have seen some top 4s being obscenely good heroes compared to mine.
BG is fun lets say… but i would suggest they add end of season/month rewards the same as standard has… it can be something simple like an emoji or a Bob skin or whatever.
I think a lot of players are fine staying at 6000 and conceding anomalies they don’t like. If it wasn’t for that, they would be higher ranked.
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Yeah if I wanted to ty hard I’d have been out of the 5-6k range a while ago instead of slowly over time, instead I’d rather have fun with heroes and stuff I like.
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It’s the most luck dictated game in the world atm. So, rating don’t mean anything. These stupid anomalies make the game dumb. Adding so much more luck to a game where every aspect was already supposedly random. It irritates me that they make no effort to try to make the game less luck dictated. Still have stupid minions on upper tier to screw people over. Tier 5 for a minion that has a battlecry for 1 tavern spell? Love getting that junk when I’m discovering a tier 5 minion. It’s like they like the game being this completely luck dictated slot machine. Every time I win I know it was because I got lucky. You can’t win without it. Skill wont get you ANY minion. It can just give you more chances to get lucky. Everyone knows what the good minions and combos are. It’s just a matter of who is lucky to get,
I always play the hero that I think is the most fun. That being said the highest MMR I have gotten is 7040. I feel that around 6K I have the most fun. I destroy some lobbies or place about half the time and get destroyed the other half lol. It is fun either way.
If you’re conceding because you don’t like the game, I’d recommend not playing at all. Play a completely different game.
That makes the game obscenely boring to me, mainly because if I drop to 6k then the probability to win skyrockets. I suspect the MMR of BGs is tweaked to give a massive drop to it if you hit a rank floor (ie you are matched with easier to win against players).
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I agree one hundred percent with thia assessment and it is why i will probably nevwr leave 6k rating atm, i hate the murloc and elemental builds and somewhat pirates, but i love menagerie and anvil builds
BGs is like ice cream. The anomalies are like flavors it can come in. If the flavor I was offered isnt one I will enjoy, despite it being ice cream, something I enjoy a lot, Im not going to make myself suffer thru the displeasure of that flavor. Im gonna try again for a different flavor I will enjoy.
I enjoy battlegrounds, but i dont enjoy every flavor it comes in.
Edit: also, my current ceiling/floor ranking is 6000-6150ish.
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I think most people get the dopamine rush from being competitive and seeing how far you can go. It’s a lot of fun to do that, but for the most part, I don’t like to read strategies and watch videos, etc. For me, reading the solution ruins the puzzle. I like to experiment with weird builds and learn things on my own.
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I figured hsreplay has nowadays extremely “pro” guides but sometimes they confuse more than not. Eg they say “get those level 6 and level 5 cards and use them that way” but up to that point it says absolutely nothing so it might be better performance to ignore the guide entirely and just see how it goes up to …even having level 6 and level 5 cards. Maybe they should rethink how they write those because it’s not that helpful to die before even trying the …guide.
Bgknowhow (now abandonded) did it better, eg for “Beasts” it had initial builds and late-game builds for the same run.