and a reminder that you lose more points if you disconnect than this guy would lose in an entire season from points decay, and how it affects the ladder as whole
https://i.imgur.com/eCxUTW5.jpg somehow places in master and carries over the 1000 points placement after barely playing 10 games several seasons in a row
https://i.imgur.com/wcHTPVc.jpg and his 23% winrate with 100 games played this season, I had the pleasure of playing with him three games in a row, he wasn’t necessarily throwing, but his decision making was a complete illogical nonsense, such as trying to sneak in to the alterac valley general and solo the 30k hp boss when he wasn’t able to do as much in the 30 min the game lasted
or could it be that he actually is throwing on purpose at this point in hope for matchmaker to find him decent games?
I wonder… how can you stay in masters with 23% winrate? Like… 200 points is a lost game. He won 25, lost 86. That is 61 games for which he lost 200 points. 12 200 points lost. that’s like… 12 leagues. Counting the demotion games, maybe 10 to 11 leagues. He should be low plat or high gold. Maximally.
I I would lose 61 games with my low diamond I would be in silver… Why is he still master?
That is nuts. But I suspect that he got to master with mmr of another player playing this account before him. Now his mmr should be low tho he shouldnt play with masters anymore.
Yesterday I played with a similar player on TL but he just started the season. He was a 16k Zuljin in 20 minutes -.- That kind of player who gets caught, you try to save him but he uses amani rage to die for sure.
First of all, he is not master player with that score. He was placed in master 1000 and now he probably decayed a lot. That master 1000 that is displayed there is the greatest achievement during the season and not current position.
i think things will be interesting when they switch over to visible MMR vs ranks as we have now. i imagine that many ppl are ‘misplaced’. however, if the system starts matching on only MMR things might work out pretty good.
I personally don’t care if u are happy or not doesn’t make much of a difference.
As I can see, images that OP posted are only from 2 seasons. What about season 2 of 2018? Was he master then? Did account even exist in season 2? Was account purchased from a master player? …
So the logical conclusion is that he probably played max 5 games in master all together since he didn’t passed that 1000 points. In season 3 he just got placed so that doesn’t count. The only people that suffered threw this horrible win rate were diamond tiers.
And as I said he is probably now in gold with that win rate. Which proves that if u suck u will end up where u deserve.
The question of how he got placed there, I am afraid we will never know
that one season when ranking system got completely broken, he got into master with negative win rate just by doing placements and kept carrying over his base Master 1000 several seasons forward
ranks weren’t fixed after the whole mess and a lot of these horrible players were able to just stay afloat on their Master standing by barely maintaining neutral win %
it was only last season that the decay got introduced, and it has done very little or close to nothing to remove those players from where they ended up by mistake
team league is even worse off because favor is usually heavily stacked towards the 3-player queue and it just makes a frustrating experience
this post was never about what rank he fell down to now, its about the hundreds of games that were ruined so far for other thousand players
the player himself might not even be aware of how broken the system is and is sharing the thought of everyone else, that he simply isn’t having fun in this environment
Hey dude,
I came from a community where the cheating was a common stuff and i would like to share my opinion about your topic.
In short:
With a high chanche this guy bought his account from a guy, who think he can make money on smurf accounts and sell them (probably not only one person do this)
Where the loose numbers begin increase,from there this random guy bought his account.
I can’t tell you why does he enjoy in this kind of games, but where he won, there what kind of enemies he got?
Don’t think its going to matter. Blizzard’s so called skill matching system is going to work as usual, it just wont have the smoke and mirrors it had before. You’ll still be in a rainbow match like I was with a 3k master on the enemy team and a 16 death 200 mmr malthael player on mine and be shaking your head why.
A HL Master and TL Master player is a huge difference. While the first one got there because of his own skill (I’m not talking about those who seeded QM MMR and played only the placements in the past seasons) and the other one is a product of a failed game mode where everybody who has the “skill” to log into this game can be Master.
There are two reasons why TL is a miserable fail.
5 man groups can play against 3+2 groups and now the thing got even worse with the solo players in TL.
The biggest problem however is that players of huge MMR differences can join up in the same party. This means that a fake Diamond TL player who got there because of QM seeding can team up with his good players smurf buddies with tanked MMR. This way he gets to Masters relatively fast and once he is there his buddies can switch to their main accounts because at that point it doesn’t matter any more. He can play his 10 placements and stay Master forever no matter how bad he is.
There are a lot of guys like this one who are “Master” TL, but in reality they’re garbage Gold/Platinum…
While the TL system stays like this this game mode will always be a clown mode that nobody cares about.
An it considered as cheating according to the Code of Conduct. I reported hundreds of players like OP mentioned but I’m yet to receive a notification e-mail about their suspensions. I don’t only talk about bronze level absolutely zero value players on bought master accounts but I copied chat lines the player wrote and admitted that he is boosting his friend’s account. Nothing happened. I think they trust the warden so much that the cheat report button is just decoration and actually does nothing.
Team league is QM with earnable point.
HL rank has the chance to show individual skill lvl (at least there was a time when it did).
So the guy in the Img is Gold4 (or better yet like high Silver).
TL rank is just a decoration, doesn’t represents the players actual kill lvl.
For one I’d point out that you’re looking at a profile which is showing season highest. Now how that player got that is up to speculation but it’s safe to assume (s)he has tanked that score a lot.
Beyond that you shouldn’t look at TL as any real evidence of skill. The profile itself lists Gold as HL highest meaning this player is more or less a Gold player.
TL is a poor measure of skill because the queue itself is flawed. It grants equal rewards to HL while being significantly less challenging to climb in, especially with this season. As I figured would happen when the queue requirement was removed has happened - TL is basically Flex queue of LoL. You’re essentially playing unranked draft with a ranked boarder.
Personally I’ve played quite a bit of TL this season because it is very relaxing which is just what I wanted from this mode. It’s more fun than QM/UD but I’m not really surprised when I see QM/UD level of players despite being “top 500 TL in EU” because TL in of itself is not a competitive area of the game.
Sure, TL masters, even GMs are joke, however it’s a serious issue on HL as well. In this season I played lot of TL because a friend of mine wanted TL GM and we did it with 80% win mostly in duo but in trio as well.
I inspected lof of uncarriable teammates such as 8 deaths 16k hero damage Zuljin and zero global presence negative team figth value Falstad below tank and healer damage and it was shock. The sole reason for inspecting them was to see their silver/gold HL besides of their meaningless TL master and calm me down. That kind of “don’t be mad, he is just a noob silver, he doesn’t know what is he doing”, but they were masters on HL as well. Not just one time masters, masters since 2017!
I don’t think that a true master can afford such inconsistent performance. Even I’m not doing exceptionally well on a ranked game, I never perform as bad as a bronze. Maybe as a low dia.
And I experience the same thing on HL as well. Up to 7k master you can meet with bronze clowns and they alone make you lose whatever you do.
doesn’t make much of a difference.