Advice for my Upcoming Gatekeep Matches Tonight

[S23-11611]

@anon821165

I’m not naive. It’s how you play with the hand you’re given which makes truly skilled player. For example, a good poker player can be dealt a terrible hand and still win with a good bluff or mind game on their opponents.

I realize my skill is probably Silver. Getting into Gold and staying there as a Silver skilled player is not impossible if I play my hand correctly. It’s all about playing smart with the team I’ve been dealt, even if odds are against me.

Blizz developers have explicitly stated the MM can match you with a below optimal chance per win. Therefore, the MM explicitly riggs your matches whther you agree or not. You’re chance of winning near tier upgrade will be below 50%. It’s how you play to beat those odds that makes you a skilled player.

Lightz, have you run your gateway matches? What happened? Also, did you see my post above explaining?

[Kaveren-1483]

Note how nobody in Masters or GM, and the vast majority of Diamond players don’t believe in gatekeeper matches because they aren’t real.

[anon821165]

Yeah I’m about mid-1700s now. I lost about 70 to 100 Sr last night. Came across a couple Smurfs but luckily no throwers most of my teammates were actually pretty solid last night. I would say most my losses last night pretty much happened because our team just got outplayed by their team. Towards the end of the night I got so fed up with playing my main role that I just switched to DPS and just picked Sombra and torb and I actually won all of those matches