Any Chance for Win Streaks to come back?

Competitive Discussion
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Hi, So I know a while back Winstreaks were essentially toned down. I am wondering if the team would consider bringing them back. I recently played with 2 other Silver and Gold friends and we won something like 14 games in a row. Our SR gain was very low. What was the reason why gains were low, especially when most games I had very good stats? Was it because we were a three stack?

Also if you brought back the win streak gains it would get smurfs out of an elo much faster and remove a lot of the complaining posts around here.

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I think the original idea was more about moving smurfs than anything else.

I’d have to go back and check the patch notes but I think it was toned down because if you just got lucky and went on a streak you would end up way above where you belong, and vice versa for losing streaks. It feels bad when your awesome win streak leads you to losing 70% of the next 20 matches because you’re out of your depth. That’s what happened to me the first time I made it to plat - it was an 11 match streak that got me there and then I barely won any for the next 2 days.

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If you did this you would need to bring back the loss streak consequences, right?

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Yea ideally - I am fine with that

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I’m not against it necessarily

I wonder why it was removed in the first place

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Did you write down your loss/gain for the streak and some games before and after? Win/loss streaks are back in the game, but I’m not sure exactly how to activate them.

See How Competitive Skill Rating Works (Season 14) → Win Streak Bonus / Loss Streak Penalty.

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I wasn’t sure, but from memory it was basically what I wrote in my first post.

I.e. it feels bad to lose a bunch after the win streak bonus puts you way too high. And that it feels bad to lose tonnes of SR on a losing streak. Basically they wanted to remove some of the feelsbadmans.

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I went on a 9 game win streak yesterday and climbed back to 3575

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Yesterday i got 7 wins in a row on my tank account.It’s just lucky

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It’s just that winstreak gains will also put lucky ducks higher than they should be and unlucky ones lower than they should be. At the end I think it’s better the way it is. Make it harder to climb but also harder to fall