So I’ve been kinda fed up with the game as i have been in a 9L streak in ranked now and went from mid plat to high gold. At this rhythm I wouldn’t be surprised if i ended in low silver before I start winning again.
So I started in s7 at 1730sr and climbed almost 1000 sr since. I was starting to watch my vods, learn from mistakes, trying to learn to look out for ults and predict them, working on shotcalling. But I initially stuck to my picks: main tank, and main and off healers. Only if there was no organisation would I go for tracer as i think I do have a high gold-low plat tracer skill, whivh would help if people wouldn’t pick her counters and focus her.
However I stuck to 3-4 heroes max, and usually stuck to one hero every match, rarely flexing.
Once I hit plat, winnibg started to be more important to me than stats. Which often led to us winning eith me personally performing poorly but still contributing to victory. However, I think this might have affected my MMR as i have really performed poorly in terms of personal stats (for example picking pharah when they have no hitscans to make them focus me while our tracer could more easily flank and destroy them, or being annoying enough with widow to make 2-3 of them chase me, while my team would have a 5v3 advantage on the point.)
What this might have cause is create a change in the matchmaking to place me with people also performing poorly and thus have similar mmr than me. For instance, I was playing in mid plat with only plat players bit the more I flexed to help the team, the more I got queued with gold players and individually weak players (low accuracy, low winrates etc). This has gotten to a point, where I don’t know why but the game has decided to queue me against diamond 3stacks while I had only gold players on my team. This happenend multiple times and the matches were no contest. (3-0 stomps and so on).
So all in all, I think I’m going back to sticking to just one hero, at least as ling as I’m below diamond. I’ll get back to caring only about my own personal stats, that’s what has worked best for me. It got me good stats low sr loss, high sr wins, and better teammates. I thought the game was about flexing but the more i look at it, the more it seems that the system is made to punish this behaviour. Brawns over brains I guess.
I might be wrong about this but this happened a lot to me lately so I’ll keep you updated and post again at a later date.
Have you made similar experiences? If so, sharing would be much appreciated as i’ve really been struggling lately and instead of playing by the rules and be punished for it, I much rather play to rank up first. Is that a right mentality to have? I don’t know anymore, this game confuses me…
Anyway if you read through here, thank you and have a good one.