During the Role Queue Beta I absolutely loved it. I got to play my favorite characters as much as I wanted and I could prove how good I really was at the game, I finally hit my highest SR and almost got to masters on both DPS and Support, now that S18 has come around I’ve fallen from near masters to High Plat even though I’m performing better than ever before. After looking at many of the forum posts I now understand I’m not the only person with this problem. A good friend of mine who peaked 4000sr playing tank dropped to Gold on Tank and he cant win games. Blizzard has made a mistake with this game and I dont think it can be reverted or fixed in the sligjtest anymore. I cant have fun on any of my accounts no matter the sr range because of how horrible the games are. During my DPS placements it felt like I was all on my own while the enemy team was playing like a well oiled machine. I’ve had more feeder DPS Moiras on my teams during S18 than ever before, more Reins that dont walk forward, I could go on forever about the horrible things I’ve delt with during placements on all my roles but at the end of the day it doesnt mean anything. I worked my way up the ranks for multiple seasons and after dropping this far I no longer want to play anymore, it seems like a waste of my time. There is no “teamwork” anymore, there has never been communication in anything lower than 3200 so my calls mean nothing. And I knoe that all of the forum dwellers are just gonna say “you’re going back to where you belong” or some trash like that but I’m confident enough to say I dont belong in Plat otherwise I would have never been close to masters and held my mid-diamond rating for as long as I did. At the end of the day I prefered the old system where I could flex and enjoy it but this new system has made me bored and I’m probably not gonna touch it again for a while.
fare thee well
If you got to gm and you cant win games in gold you are hardcore boosted. Dont act like role queue is making you lose, its you.
I always find it funny when people say they always get the bad team and are always facing an amazing team with great teamwork. You’ll get bad games, you’ll get good games, and the vast majority you’ll get are games where your efforts can determine the outcome.
You say you went from high diamond to high platinum. It’s common knowledge that your SR can vary about 300SR in either direction, minus high masters and GM. You’re probably still around a mid-diamond level, but the pendulum swung back for the time being. If you belong higher, you’ll be able to win matches more than lose them, because you’re always a constant for you teams.
As for being unable to climb from gold, I highly doubt that someone who reached 4k wouldn’t be able to climb at all. On my old account I got to 4k playing tank, and stopped playing for over a year before returning for Season 17. On this new account I had to climb from 2.4k after my placements, and in just 4 hours of gametime I got back up to 3k. Role Queue Beta I played more and got back up to 3.8k, just shy of 3.9k. Up until I got back into high diamond matches, I was able to hard carry nearly every match and climb, and I still provide a lot of value for my team on tank.
I’m confident I belong in Masters right now for Tank, low Diamond for DPS and then high gold/low platinum for Support. My SR reflects that. People say you’re going back to where you belong because it’s not about what you can peak at, but what you’re stable at. Like I said above, the SR can swing roughly 300 in both directions. All the time in Masters you get people who think they’re godly because they got to 4k, but now they’re in 3.6k and blaming their team for everything because they couldn’t stay at that level. If you grind your rank out, over many matches you’ll be near where you should be. The matches where your team throws and the matches where your team stomps level out, and so the majority of meaningful matches depend on the one constant, which is oneself in them. You belong higher, then you’ll give your team the edge more often than not and win more games over the season and vice versa.