Why there are so many good players in bronze?

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I’m plat. main act. and what a bruch situation I saw in bronze last days:

Really good players, who’s really play like gold or low plat. just stack in bronze and just can’t handle it anymore. They really plays good, knows timings, gets camps, knows when to fight, etc.

But…why? Haw is that situation possible?

I created a smurf (mb) for the first time and really get stunned about that - I can’t carry LOW SILVER cause that players are too good!

That situation is really awfull for the newbies, just haw many times should they spend to get out of bronze?

Is that cause of team-oriental Hots gameplay and “50% winrate system”, from which all players left?

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The Random Potatoe Team Generator is awful on them…

But fear not, for stadistical reasons there is better for other players that only get potatoes on enemy team. Those write here in forum “if you are good enough you can carry” and feel good!

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Lots of people play in the lower ranks for fun. Easier enemy players. Zero to hero runs and so on

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Smurfing is super popular in this game. I would guess there are more smurfs in lower ranks than the people who actually belong there which is terrible to say

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It’s because Blizzard bans anyone who criticizes the game, so we all make smurfs.

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There are definitely plenty of smurfs in the game but I feel more often than not their perceived main rank gets exaggerated.

Playing vs a 4 or 5 stack that’s coordinated as solo players is very rough even if they are silver/gold players. It feels like they must be plat and above but you can see poor play a lot of time.

Referencing the timing camps if I as a solo player know how to time camps I can’t always do so if the rest of the team don’t do their job/respond to pings and I’m not a camp clear hero, or people arnt soaking/depushing camps.

I think if people queue up they are more likely to act as a group/respond to pings so if one player knows how to time camps/shot call invades ganks and rotations rest of team will follow wheras a bunch of solo queue players half the time try to do their own thing.

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I think as the game has regressed, a lot of higher ranked players stopped playing. Queues used to be only a min or two longer than QM.

This equals, longer and longer queue times. Combined with increased ARAM mentality with no soaking = more stress about losing rank. Which leads to making a smurf because you think it will be easy.

But now like 75% + of the ranked player base is queuing in bronze/silver. And everyone has made a smurf because its faster queue times, but you end up never climbing because:

  1. Nobody hardly ever communicates unless complaining.
  2. If someone’s pick doesn’t go their way they sabotage the team.
  3. If you start streaking, Blizz quickly puts you back in your place.

Unfortunately, I don’t see a way out of this vicious cycle for our beloved HOTS. When other mobas have much of the market share. It’s like HoTS is Del Taco, but everyone knows Mcdonalds or Carls JR is killing it lol

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People are bored and makes smurfs to mess up the matching and keep other players down. There are more smurf accounts than main accounts.