Since the change there has been less throwing but the teams i’m given are generally 500+ SR lower than myself or if they are the same SR they are terrible
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It does seem there are many bad players. However it’s only beta. Hopefully they can get things figured out.
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Bad players exist. More news at 11. Hint: I’m one of them. Boo!
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I guess I can say I’ve had a couple of weird games, at least SR wise.
Platinum and master players in same comp game, I’d say that’s pretty weird no?
I think I was on the trashing side today. We stomped so many teams.
Watch me play tomorrow and be on the steamrolled end.
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Yes, I thought this was the case until I changed the way I played.
I was miserable trying to work out what I was doing wrong as support for the first 3 nights I played until it just ‘clicked’.
It was me who was not having enough impact in my matches.
Since then I have been shooting back up through the ranks.
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Its strange that I could play 5 games and get utterly stomped on by players who are just outright better than us. Then the following day we do the stomping and a lot of the time it hardly even seems fair.
I even feel bad for the other team, we’ve all been there.
What I have noticed too are people who just give up and throw after just the first round. Diamond players are strangely sensitive
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Yeah last couple days, I’m getting either top notch Tanks w/ poor DPS or Top notch support w/ poor tanks or some combination of that. Never a well-rounded team. I’m sure something is going on under the hood that they’re trying out
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i see either bad tanks or bad dps most, occasionally seeing both be awful at the same time.
there are a lot of stupendously awful DPS mains being pushed lower in the ranks along with a lot of DPS players (good and bad) playing other roles that they’re just not any good at or used to atm.
still a lot more GREAT games since role lock though. i’d say as high as 45% of my games are good to great. before role lock … 30% maybe?
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That happens even in silver. I’ve done it myself.
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Yeah seems I get a total potato team every few games. Other than that, it’s pretty equally awful on both sides. Sometimes I just stop and stare at the complete lack of order in the games I’m thrust into.
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Pretty sure it is the system trying to sort people with a mix of people throwing.
Playing as a tank is such a painful experience. You move forward, create space and get heals …
Then the DPSers are “herp derp herp”, don’t focus target and don’t do squad diddly anything. Playing as Reinhardt or Zarya or even Orisa, trying to coordinate the ultimate with the usage of DPS ultimates, only to have them press Q on their own and die without a single kill out of it.
Hopefully they get their MM system fixed for release, because right now it’s just garbage mode deluxe in there.
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I honestly get the same garbage as before. A ton of dps above platinum have absolutely no idea how to group up. Tanks are better at it but a good portion of them is afraid of an orisa shield, so they stand in front of it and stare it down. Healers are honestly the most consistent group I meet, probably because they have to rely on teamwork from the very beginning, only occasionally you find someone who hasn’t got many hours on healers in general that soft throws your game by being too high in rank. The only difference now is that I cannot fill with off-roles by switching but am stuck feeding as a tank while our dps are having a stroll, or I’m trying to heal suicidal tanks. It’s honestly the most enjoyable as dps, because most of the time simply grouping up with the front line wins you games.
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yes, this is true, but mostly when i play tank or healer
Same thing happened for me with Main Tank. One day a light bulb went off and it just clicked.
I don’t know what “IT” is, but I found it.
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maybe, but it begs the question. does the carry outweigh the throw? i would say that i’m bad at dps, i’ve tanked and healed most every competitive season, yet now, my dps rank is higher than the other two, because you can lead the sheep to water, but you can’t make’em drink. No matter how impactful you are, if someone is 500 sr below you in the same game, they can often counter all of your work.
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cause alot of players are playing in roles they don’t usually play but placed in current rank from last season. It’ll take weeks and months for them to normalize. Like I’m not a great tank, i’ve lost over 300sr losing most of my games.
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Yep. Wouldnt say 500 SR but maybe 200 SR. Probably many players who are playing new roles and are being ranked way too high by the matchmaker, as usual. (with that i mean that they play like 200 SR below me)
Currently, these “new players” are occurring in bulks because 2-2-2 is new. Game quality has definately suffered. Can only hope that it will get better quickly.
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Not quite, but I get what you are trying to say.
The thing is though, that is just 1 game. If they are that much worse than you just avoid them like I pointed out in my ‘how to use avoids thread’.
If you consistently get these people in your games and not winning, you may not be making the impact you think you are?
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