Competitive Ranking Confusion?

Competitive Discussion
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Hey all!

Wanted to enter the world of competitive play in HOTS with my friend. We have played together for a while (he is in the ~400 ranks, and I am mid 200’s).

Neither of us have been competitively ranked in the past 1-2 years - and when we were ranked, it was mid silvers/low golds…so we queued up and did our placement matches,

We both performed fairly well (he tanked, and I healed all 3), all the games were victories, with me on highest healing, and him on highest tanking. KDA’s were similar for all the games.

After the 3 required placement matches, my friend was placed in Platinum 3, and I was placed into Bronze 1 - and I am absolutely floored considering we both performed equally effectively and now I have to spend hours climbing my way up to hopefully be able to play with him in a few weeks,

My question or comment I guess is - Why would this happen, and does anyone understand the factors that go into the placement matches to cause such a severe disconnect?

Thank you all for your help in advance,

-TorturedSoul

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Your accuracy per action, how fast you react to situation.
Ex: if you pick auto heal and win mean you get less mmr than other.

3

Create a new account and place again. You aren’t getting out of elo hell.

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Only wins and losses affect MMR. Kill death ratio, mvp awards, healing, damage dealt or tanked mean nothing.

OP also started out at a lower MMR than his friend, whether they played their placements together or not has no bearing on his final rank.

You can’t take a Bronze account, win 3 placements with a Diamond friend and place into Diamond yourself. Nobody in their right mind would even consider this a possibility.