It’s a team game so match me with players who have the same skills not someone who is negative every game. That’s why smurfs are allowed to be played in lower ranking. The reason I know people are negative every game is because I block them when I avoid them so when their avoidance is expired I still know I blocked them for a reason. Rework match making. After 4 wins I should not be put with people who are on a losing streak. I play open queue after my main role (healer) is in masters. There’s so many people who are one tricks who play open q. For what reason? I can play a few characters in each role and that’s what open q should be, the ability to adapt. But a team can’t adapt if one player isn’t a team player. They should add that to be able to play open q you should have a few hours of play on more than one character in each role. Also they should keep track on avoidances. If a player has been an avoided 8 times within 3 games in a row or so that means they are disrupting the game. Reporting a player does not always show the extent that they should be banned. I hate when players troll in competitive because that’s more fun to them. Ever since Overwatch became free, a lot of players who just don’t care about the gameplay have joined. Recreating a new account and getting it to level 25 is too easy to join and play with lower ranking.
On paper a fair request. But the equally skilled junkrat to Vs pharahmercy duo…
Also, people can just perform badly from time to time.
You can be equal skill and get totally dumpstered on.
I’ve seen good junkrats make pharmacy switch, although not ideal, they don’t go negative. I don’t ask those people to switch. If we have a soldier who can’t kill a pharah or mercy that’s another thing, that’s not the same skill level as me. When I think of Masters I think you have mastered your role and don’t need someone to tell you to you to switch.
I hit masters… I have not mastered my role lol.
But then I just play Ball 90% of the time.
Post must be 20 characters long I just wanted to put smh 
Playing with your balls 90% of the time?
Maybe it’s time to try to get a girlfriend…
But it feels so good
Now it all makes sense…
You have a SmallPackage, so you play with your balls 90% of the time… 
Comforting.
It’s better than making up stories about videos games being rigged or whatever it’ll be next.
It’s always been this way, the only difference is the free to play that has caused more smurfs and throwers.
Blizzard should have implemented a better anti-smurf and throwing algorithm when they made it free to play.
Yeah Blizz is killing their game, it comes down to horrible MM, cheaters, smurfs,boosters and the PVE missing, I wouldn’t even complain about PVP if they had kept their promise to do PVE.
Truly feel that the Dev team is inept, they can’t blame Bobby anymore either…
9 seasons since this post. 16 seasons since I’ve played the game. I’ve been back into comp in season 18 for about 60-70 hours so far. A snippet of my experience so far as a mostly solo player. I had back to back leavers either team the other night. Played 2 more, then another leaver that’s the worst it’s been. Frequently (especially weekends) someone is afk on one of the teams until 10-30 seconds into the match. On average it’s about 10% of games somebody leaves, and I’m trying to be nice there. I feel like it’s more like 1 in 9 games or maybe even 1 in 8 some days. I’m in mid to high gold but that shouldn’t make a difference if the system works. 2 of my games out of maybe 20 games yesterday a support player on a new account was carrying so hard that bronzes could have one. Two different people I believe.
The first time on the other team. They DC’d first cp on midtown and we scored 3. When they came back we got absolutely stomped. The second a Juno on a new account on my team went 25 and 2 with nearly 10k dmg AND 10k heals. I do like the new hero levels because it makes it easier to report these people. But like how many matches are they doing that in? Why does Blizzard allow these content creators to do unranked to masters plays all the time? They don’t care. They’re making money off of it. OH! And the guy who plays Genji and Cassidy on the same account called mommyluvsyou that I’ve ran into 5 times now this season and reported each time and contacted Blizzard about got an automated response about and haven’t heard from since that is SO good he can make the match seem balanced then say in text chat “Well it’s about that time…” Then absolutely control the lobby. (Two out of the 5 times he was in text chat like that.) No message yet saying they’ve been banned, and I presume there never will be.
I went down from gold 2 to gold 4 so far this season. Season high gold 1 season low gold 5, and was like oh my win rate must be low as hell. So I checked at the time. 42 and 35. Why have I gone down not one but TWO divisions?? My Reinhardt win rate was 59% before I played the weekend. Now it’s 52% because apparently the weekend warriors influence the games matchmaking system that much.
If we take those numbers 7 games (minimum) with blatant cheaters or boosters (the two supports and the 5 times I ran into that dmg player mommyluvsyou. Oh btw public career profile. Played every season and stays in gold) and let’s be nice and say 8% of my games have leavers. The math here is insane. I’ve had seven games with completely blatant cheaters out of 95 (servers are down rn so I’m over estimating) and if 8% of my games have leavers that’s 7.3 games or something. Anyway! That means FIFTEEN percent of my SR is influenced by cheaters and leavers. THAT’S HUGE.
People say “Oh the games balanced. All the heroes have around a 45-55% win rate.” That means the HEROES are balanced. Not the over all game and definitely not the matchmaking.
It’s because Blizzard took away or turned off MM that finds equal players at same skill when finding matches so everyone could get into a match much quicker. In OW1 near the end, it could take 8-15 mins sometimes to find a match. This is because the formula was running in the background to find the best-balanced match on the server at that time. Blizzard turned that off when they created OW2, so you only have to wait minutes to get into match. Until that system is turned back on, MM will only always be bad. And Wide groups hurt it even more.
Yea the matchmaking was at its peak in the final seasons of ow1. There were also very few casuals still playing around that time which made a huge difference. In terms of climbing it was probably the hardest, but in terms of match quality it was the best.
This is just completely wrong, wtf.
lotta games today very unfair.
Other team has 2 awesome dps my team has none.
back to back to backl games same thing super large DPS diffs
I had a game that was such a stomp that I dont even think they lowered my hero SR at all. Other team all with 20+ elims each and mine with 1 or 2.
And also another one with a 1 and 7 soldier talking shiet after I called him out.