So sad the ranked system is pretty bad

years pass by and this system still is pretty bad…not even worth explaining myself…im just gonna keep pointing it out till those meaninless placement matches worth or mean something …and even the matchmaking system. I mean, everything is wrong…too sad it kills the game…cya! =)

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You will keep pointing it out a lot then…because they don’t know how to rank players…
You can’t be master or diamond and just focusing on getting kills…thas just pointless. Some masters don’t care about soaking xp nor getting camp in time…they just don’t do what they are suppose to do. How can they be master then…place them where they will learn the mechanics of the game without make it bad to other…
But blizzard don’t want players to be unhappy so why don’t you place everyone in Masters league…can’t be worst then now…

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It’s a shame because the other parts of the game are pretty good. Ladder used to be decent sometime between the 50 ranks system and 2.0 So it’s not impossible to make happen. Although the talent system amplifies imbalances more than other mobas. Most heroes are specialists in a way and can’t be played in many ways. Meaning that drafting is crucial. This adds a lot of randomness to the matches especially at low to mid ranks where people probably don’t know everything about the game and some only use one hero (don’t draft) that will lead to one team getting a draft advantage even though some individuals might be better on the other team. That will keep the skill measuring process pretty useless and the randomness doesn’t decrease.

If they reset the ladder and made placement matches meaningful, the ladder would gradually get good. There needs to be a lot more placement matches for the initial placement, especially after a reset. Seasons probably don’t need to exist.
Why aren’t they doing anything about it is beyond me. I guess it’s either some agenda to have the ladder chaotic or they just don’t have any human resources/money for that.

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Reason is very simple cause the low-gold/high-silver threshold is a bottleneck of about as much as 40% of total playerbase (I mean the whole S/G have 70% of TOTAL playerbase so…)

And they NEVER REALIZED that they can’t put “MMR implications” (that “rule” that “maximizes quality” on a match, i.e. both team’s totals/averages on skill level be as equal as possible) on what already seems to be a disaster… Yes, high ranks don’t have this problem cause they don’t get as much as 40% of skill level disparity between teammates so “matching by MMR” isn’t detrimental, but for any “native” G/S player it’s a TOTAL DISASTER

And yes, sadly they never acknowledged that problem… Next year there won’t be ranks at all, which could ultimately make things for the better but then again the problem is initially some playerbase would leave as a result on what ALREADY SEEMS to be a somewhat-lack-of-playerbase type of situation

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No rank? That would be interesting indeed.

Personally, most of my rank comes from playing on a laptop at 20 fps with mouse acceleration on. I have since made some major hardware changes and tried to learn a number of pro-tips. My skill level is nothing like it used to be, but I’m still stuck with the grunts if I try to play ranked.
Looking at what everyone else is saying though, makes me think even without my past, I would be in the same boat.

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The day they drop rank and keep MMR is the day this game dies for sure, and if that doesn’t kill it, then merging HL and TL into one will do so

:glhf: all

Its not the ranking system that is so bad its just the placements are meaningless. It takes a hundred games for this game to place you where you need to be.

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Why placement people still get matched with none placement after 2-3 weeks after the season started ?

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No point for playing placements vs placements only.

Reason you see that at the start is that most players are placing.

Rn im at 8 HL games, playing with ranks i ended up on the last season so it doesnt matter for the game if i have a rank yet this season.

If you play ranked, mute your team.

3 out of 5 games you have people either throwing or calling you bad due to your rank THEN throwing, so mute and pretend most of the human beings playing with you are Normal-Expert bots.

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yeah…everyone is in that point that no matter what you do,you will only move between 2 or 3 ranks…or you go up 2-3 ranks …or you go down 2-3 ranks…and it doesnt worth spending time trying to reach higher divisions