Another matchmaking post

ye guys i know im not original in this matchmaking issue the game has, but is so sad cos i wanna play ranked but at the same time i feel is gonna be stompwatch again

do u have any tips on how to improve my mental in this game???, cos right know i feel so unmotivated cos there are so many games i feel i cant do nothing but i enjoy playing the characters and i wanna improve

so yea , right now i feel kinda lost with this state of the game, cos maybe i should stop playing and wait they improve something? idk what to do :’(

Maybe try and put more focus on improving and what you’ve learned in a match, rather than whether or not it was a win or a loss.

Because the irony is, you learn more from losing than you do from winning. All winning a match does is tell you “hey you’re okay as you are, good job, keep it up”. But I’d wager your goal probably isn’t to stay “okay as you are” you want to improve! And you learn those lessons more clearly from losses than you do wins.

Also, I dont play comp, but I’ve always heard the match making is more rigid and there aren’t as many stomps, but someone who actually plays comp will have to comment

This is only really relevant if the loss in question happens in a close, evenly matched game. There isn’t much to be learnt from games that are just constant stomps.

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Yeah my reply was an attempt to help OP reframe the concept of a loss in their mind so they see it as an exciting ‘skill gap’ they get to plug, rather than a painful loss they cant do anything about.

Because at the end of the day, I’d still argue that you’ll always learn more from a loss (regardless of whether it was a total stomp or a close match) than you will a win.

If you, personally, suffer a devastating loss and want to just move on and put it behind you, that’s fine do you, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t something that can be learned if only you take the time to try. But again, it’s totally up to you, if you disagree, do what works for you.

You need to absolve yourself of care. Once you realize the game is rigged and you are only playing for lootboxes, you will either quit (best case scenario) or continue with the knowledge that you are the one putting yourself through samsara. Once you understand that you ARE the bad matchmaking, we all are, it becomes more difficult to get frusrated at individual cogs. Enlightenment is key. It will never get better. Accept the cycle.

Focus on that. Enjoy your hero and try to get better without the expectation of results as they will remain the same nevertheless. Once you realize that, you will not be disappointed.

Yes.

No. That will never happen.

What do you WANT to do?

Focus on what you can do to help your teammates do what they’re trying to do even if you think what they’re trying to do is stupid. A team doing something stupid together will usually win if the other team isn’t doing something smart together.

ive been playing comp recently and i feel like quickplay is just a better experience in general. my experience i mean. when i was playing comp i didnt derank BUT i lost a lot. thing is when i lost i would only lose like 20 percent of the rank adjustment thing and when i won i would get like 40 percent… so basically i would lose to be almost negative out of rank and win a couple of games too start over. would last a while

guess that mean i belong in that rank but still i was losing more than winning lol.. at least in quickplay i can have like 6,7,8 or even 9 game winning streaks. of course loss streaks happen as well but its all even 50/50 unlike my competitive experience

Stadium Comp is similar for me. Last season, I lost a lot. I never got that Drive Sig like i did in previous seasons…

it is strange in a way where i was losing less points than when i won. so basically i would never derank but lose a lot then when i almost derank win like 3 games and start at top then lose like 7 games .. then win 3 … etc

that was my tank silver 1 d.va experience hehe

marvel rivals was the same way for me where i would get “no derank” shields or “no points loss shields” but then use them all up but it was a lot of losses then win a couple of games but i would stay the same rank… im like are these shields a “my turn to lose” thing hehe

quickplay in overwatch is more even for me even tho i have big win streaks or big loss streaks

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Its a game at the end of the day and if ur not having fun, then don’t play lol. Matchmaking isn’t going to “improve” the way people want it to because it’s not broken the way people think it is. So if you’re waiting for something to magically change then you’re going to wait a long time.

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Simple really.

1st. What’s your goal?

Improve and climb? - focus on improving your own game play. Work on fixing mistakes.

Play for fun? - focus on your own game play and laugh at the chaos.