The best part is that you don’t even see the inconsistency.
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What inconsistency? We all know that Front242 is the only human that plays Heroes of the Storm, everyone else is just a bot designed by Blizzard to quantum-calculate an exact 50% winrate for him. Unfortunately, the bot sucks so he has a 52% winrate, but it’s still incredible proprietary technology.
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There have been many well articulated posts about why Hots “failed”, but the one you linked to isn’t one of them.
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Imagine being stuck in B5 vs bots.
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yes not one of them it is first of them… bad matchmaking is the core of all problems!
Then explain to me why some people are stuck in bronze forever while others climb out. Complaining about MM is first sign that you properly cant climb because of various reasons.
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Oh that’s easy; they weren’t born as Fan
Jokes aside though
Let’s not pretend that this game has no issues with it’s match-making despite climbing being very much possible with enough effort applied in the right direction
Even Call of Duty Mobile has a better match-making system than HOTS does
A literal mobile game!
If you said to me that MM in the old QM was a disaster before they updated the roles so at least both teams would be matched for tank/healer, I’d take that onboard.
If you said the old method of using MMR seeded from QM, where players deliberately created new accounts and artificially inflated their MMR, so they could rank into Diamond (I think even Master Rank), then you would have a point.
As others have pointed out, even with these issues people climbed ranks, I started as Silver 5 and climbed into Plat, others were in Bronze and reached Master rank.
I’m not someone who will say to you “Fan can climb from B5, so of course you can too.”, because the majority of us don’t have Fan’s skills.
The counter to your argument is many players, who aren’t celebrity streamers, have shared their experiences solo climbing on the forums. A good place to look is RCW’s Hots Replay Thread.
I remember following Sami’s journey from Silver 1, to Master, or high Diamond, where they mostly played the majority of those matches solo and a great deal of those games were played with Lucio, a hero few people list as an impactful hero to make climbing ranks easier.
RCW’s thread is also a great place to post your replays to receive feedback, most people on these forums are generous and will give you feedback on your performance, without being negative or rude.
I get it and know how bad Bronze is. However, we are in 2023 now, Hots is in stasis, the player base is declining, so naturally the MM will suffer. As much as I think SL is badly designed allowing players to group as any size, and two ranks apart, players are still able to climb. I have a friend who has only been playing for about 12 months, and they climbed from B3 to Gold5 solo. Melke (Battleooze) recently climbed from Silver into Gold, I’m sure he would give you some tips.
My advice to you is just not to worry about your rank at all, very few people even care about what rank you are in Hots, especially now. Try to simply enjoy your matches, or if ranked gets too annoying (It did for me) just quit it and play QM, ARAM, or even vs AI.
Best of luck.
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i dont care about my rank but im unhappy with random 90% teammates…
YOU report afk who has 0 kill 0dmg 0xp and next game genius matchmaking pairing with this … ROLF
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I play ranked, and I get it, this kind of behaviour is really annoying. It’s baffling to me that anyone would queue up, often for five minutes (or longer), with the intention of trolling multiple ranked matches, to me, I can’t understand the appeal of this behaviour.
There is no avoid player option, and the player base isn’t large enough for one. Just report these people for AFK and eventually if enough people do the same, they will be suspended.
The system does work, as I had a friend who was new to Hots, and they received a suspension for “disruptive gameplay” after they were reported for dying too often in ARAM.