I can empathize with that, as much as I can imagine anyway.
But that 55% winrate is considering all that mess. Real Plat player would likely have higher winrate than that if it were all fair games, but because of the mess you’re describing, he ends up with 55% winrate, which is still enough to climb out.
The only explanation of a player couldn’t climb out is because he doesn’t have 55% winrate shown in the stat page (or, say, 51%, which would be a dreadfully slow climb but climb nonetheless).
All it takes is an untimely disconnect during draft to loss all the progress and you are now back to 0 points.
That’s what happened during my last attempt to grind out of SL. I played about 20 games only to have everything reset again.
That’s on top of dealing with the trolls and emotional teenage boys trapped in that bracket.
This isn’t completely true. Discounting Diamond and above who have active rank decay, all ranks have passive rank decay. This means if you’re Plat 1, but only play 3 games a season total, when you next play, even if you win all placement matches, you will rank about Plat 4 or 5 at best.
While it is true that any rank below Diamond is easier to maintain, the fewer matches you play per season (and seasons can sometimes be extended), the more likely you are to be affected by passive rank decay. I’m in Plat, and when I haven’t played SL for about three or so weeks, my MMR will be more “loose” and I will win or lose more points in my first 3 to 10 games, that’s passive rank decay.
Those disconnects at least mean you will have had point redemption, where you win more points for wins and lose fewer for losses. I’m not dismissing your issues with Bronze 5, it is no doubt a grind to get out of that rank, more so, if you are Bronze five with few points, just how many do you have before you rank into B4?
If you’re Plat, the real grind will be to lift yourself out of Bronze 5, once accomplished you should then be able to climb reasonably quickly as then you will receive 200 points for wins and losses.
In order to nullify all the good and bad luck you have to play hundreds of games so that the system starts ranking you properly.
It’s just not going to happen with a player who isn’t going to grind that out. The math just doesn’t work out in your favor.
Ultimately B5 is designed to be a competitive ladder death sentence for an account unwilling to do that.
Because those people rather want to smash buttons then to wait 30 min for a que to pop up just for someone to leave cause he was afk or someone banned his best hero.
Disconnects only give you temporary point loss. So long as you keep playing games, that penalty gets removed. So this isn’t really an issue.
Zenas, you’ve played more than your fair share back in the day. The game ranked you properly as gold. You’re just not very good. You just have this weird fantastical notion that the system is keeping you down.
It hardly takes 30 minutes unless you’re playing at high rank or at odd hours or on low pop servers. We’re talking ranked, not unranked. I’m sure your explanation is part of it, especially just picking whatever hero they want. But afks happen in every mode. The larger part of it is simply because there’s less accountability in QM. People can choose whatever hero they want and they are free to be as bad as they want and there’s no number that tells them they are. It’s less stressful.
And there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s just then (not directed at you personally), don’t mock ranked for having guardrails and that it’s not accurately assessing your rank quickly enough or calling it a joke mode while saying with a straight face when they only play ARAM or QM.
Harsh : / But might be necessary. I might have been guilty of that as well.
That’s it! I noticed in my forum stat that my most-replies was to him. I was able to find out his other id, but it still didn’t ring a bell. That id however does!
Im content with gold.
You see im not so invested in my performance in HotS that I would think it was some kind of insult to make any claim about how good or bad I am at a video game.
I’m more concerned about how fun the experience is than some meaningless epeenery we could throw around on a game forum.
How do you think a player gets into bronze in the first place? I’ll give you a hint. It’s by losing, losing a LOT of games. They don’t just magically get plucked from the ether so that some maniacal Blizzard employee in the shadows gets to watch you suffer. It’s merely trying to match you with other people who also lose a lot.
And there’s nothing wrong with being gold, it’s the oh I don’t really belong here because the system is holding me back that is comical.
Wrong person to reply to, my man.
And no, it’s not in my intention to demean you with rank. I consider these kind of thing like alcoholic problem. No, not as game addiction thing, not saying you’re a bad person nor with personal issue in that way, but as facing, acknowledging-a-problem issue. I consider that as first step of getting better in a game, so I might be blunt and cold in some way.
I blame mobile forums.
Clearly that was intended to be a reply to Volun.
I’d like to see you get out of the B5 abyss by playing 1 to 2 games per week or two by earning 12 to 30 points per win.
Feel free to post the vods when you finally break out of it in about 5 years.
LoL, talk about a strawman.
I wouldn’t be in bronze 5 to begin with because I wouldn’t lose that many games to get there. You seem to fail to recognize how one gets into bronze 5, which is by losing a lot, which also takes time and many games. And to get out of it, you need to win a lot. If the fact that you can’t get out of bronze quickly by playing 2 games a week upsets you, and blizzard can’t magically design a system that will somehow guess your skill with barely any data and instantly reward people for putting almost no effort, then continue living in that fantasy.
Dude, nobody cares about your epeen.
Go rub one out elsewhere.
You ask me a question, I respond by showing how the hypothetical isn’t realistic because of the amount of games required to get there in the first place. People don’t magically get into bronze, and it doesn’t take magic or your anti commitment of two games a week to get out of it either. That has nothing to do with me.
Showing everyone how big your epeen is.
Nobody cares.
If you somehow feel threatened by me stating a fact, something in which more than 98% of the player population can do is a flex (it’s actually REALLY hard to be in bronze 5), that’s more a projection of your insecurities.
Nobody is threaten by you.
But I am curious how you think what you are saying has anything to do with my post?
Open AI gave me this:
"How many Bronze 5 players does it take to beat a Grand Master in Heroes of the Storm?
Well, the answer is simple: they don’t. They’re too busy arguing over who gets to play Nova and Gazlowe!"
XD
These kind of posts seriously lack the necessary details for them to have any usefulness.
My lifetime stats : I played 1241 SL games, with a 49.6% winrate and currently sits at 8 points in Silver 5. So overall a winrate below 50% and still around high Bronze / low Silver. Honestly, I really have a hard time believing that a legit 55% winrate is in Bronze 5… Something does not compute.
How long will it take you to get out of B5 at 12 to 30 points per win/loss at a 55% win rate if you only play 1 to 2 games per week? Assume an unfortunate disconnect during draft that causes you to lose 600 points at least once every couple of months.