I am currently stuck in D2.
Literally every second game I get some trash player on my team who firstpicks tracer or some other bs.
You could argue that I am the only constant and that it’s my own fault I can’t leave Diamond but I disagree. I main Rexxar (who is currently very strong) and top all stats except healing almost every game. At least the stats of my team.
I got ranked in at D3 which was barely different so I didn’t get to see leagues like Gold and Silver, but I literally cannot imagine my teammates being any worse while still trying to win.
If you have any fun Gold and Silver stories please share them with me. Maybe it makes me feel better about the people I get matched with.
Also for the record I play on EU.
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im stuck in AUTHENTICATION
i cant log in on my main acc
maybe im banned o.O
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Don’t be scared that’s just a current bug.
Either that or devs finally put HotS to rest. 
some ppl can log in normally they play SL now but i cant for some reason
Servers are down here too in EU. 5 min to wait they’re saying. Bli² used to be N1.
Im currently stuck as well. I climbed to master on my main account. But for some reason through Plat, is the worse games, Ive ever seen in my life.
A lot of people ranging from previous high gold to master abused the placement system for free master 1k in NA. From what I’ve heard from few friends it has been happening on EU too so don’t expect it to get any better.
It’s just like old TL except they made it much easier to gain free ranks. All you gotta do is party up with smurf bronze who has done placements and party up with placement people who want to move up. They can have 4 former plats + bronze smurf for example fight all games in bronze games for free and easy 10 wins. They get same MMR gain as they would fighting in games of their level so they end up placing between high diamond and master 1k. The system is completely broken so SL is just as messy as HL/TL used to be if not worse 
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-600 coz blissard connection suc
feelsgoodman
i somehow dodged the game coz of some bug
i had also prepicked hero
i could have gm tomorow but now with -600 not hapening
now i cant even play QM or brawl to disable leaver status even with 600sec seaching time
I climbed from bronze to low master in EU. I didn’t do it be spamming games, just played until the winrate was good and ended the season for myself.
So my experience is that there is no significant improve in terms of matchmaking, playerbase, skill or balance. This game is so terrible draft and team dependent that it’s always sort of a roulette. You can have the best ranged player on the planet, if he/she is forced to play support without the willingness to do so then a in theory balanced game turns very quick to a disaster.
The most fun was in bronze and silver. The people there are mostly very friendly and know that they are not that good and play a relaxed brawl game. The party which brawls best wins.
The most unfun experience is Gold, Platin and high Diamond (not low Diamond). Everyone thinks he/she needs to carry, everyone thinks he/she is at least playing at GM level, the games are mostly salty and often very unfun stomps.
Since Blizzard doesn’t know how to build a ladder all skills are all over the place between Gold and Master. This is very very different compared to LoL. In LoL you see a very significant skill and mechanic difference between a silver and a platin player e.g. In HOTS the difference is mainly the game understanding and experience. And HOTS is the only MOBA on the planet in which you can get into master with a negative winrate.
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No.
I placed in Silver on my account where I practice heroes I’m bad at (or at least feel I’m bad at).
As someone who has got into Diamond every season they’ve put the games in in HL… It’s a prettttttttttty big difference.
Least in the US in my experience. Which of course may not be useful for how things all are together.
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No, they are quite different, but Gold is the most unstable. Gold has players ranging from Bronze to Diamond. Bronze mostly has only Bronze players, Silver has players of Bronze to mid Gold, but Gold is the worst in terms of skill reliability.
Go into Platinum and skill starts to stabilize. You get some people that might belong in low Gold or high Silver, but most in Platinum deserve to be Platinum.
Below that, it’s a total crapshoot.
I’d also like you to note that this season is atypical. Confidence was reset to that of a new account, so there were some previous Grand Masters that placed in Platinum.
Keep in mind this season in particular is highly unstable.
On Asia there is a pretty noticeable skill change between silver and gold so far. I haven’t made it to Platinum yet, but I’ll let you know when I do
every league is full of sht.
The matchmaking in this game is absolute garbage made by programmers who half assed the algorithm.
I imagine being put on the hots team is seen as a dead end with blizzard.
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all leagues are the same including masters
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I’m sure this is the case. They have the worst matchmaker in the industry and literally every game is a stomp of one site. They community told them this 100 million times and what do they do? Change the XP system that matches feel more balanced instead of fixing the real problem.
A bunch of clueless hobby developers that wouldn’t get a job at all at Riot. I bet 5$ that everyone there has no proven experience at all in building a multiplayer matchmaker.
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nah, there are skill differences between the leagues. its just that as you climb you find that ppl still make mistakes no matter where you are at.
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