Competitive Experiment - 158 games played

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Hello everyone.

Few weeks ago I had idea to make an overwatch experiment, playing only mercy and collecting a lot of different informations from the game. For example number of leavers, how good were comp games in general and many more things. I wanted to use older account but then I decided to make new account. My goal was to play only Mercy in Quickplay and then only mercy in competitive until I will grind golden weapon or after set number of timeI will play (100 hours maybe). After that I am changing hero.You can see some interesting stats from the 25 quickplay levels at the end + video with my stats. I plan to play record whole placement + some next games.

So far I managed to get to level 25. 100% time in quickplay on Mercy. Here is how it went (keep in mind I am playing in EU region):

I will start with general feeling from playing quickplay and then I will take it step by step how I was leveling up. I have to say that Quickplay experience isnt good at all, definitely not good for new players because they will not be able to learn almost anything about how to be good team player and playing tank or support role is not fun there. 99% of games were silent, nobody talking, not responding to “Hello”, just nothing, mostly not even in voice chat at all. Team comps bad most of the times. Occasions where I had good team comp were rather rare. I was happy to get atleast one off tank. Team work and grouping up practicaly non existent.

LVL 1-9
Somewhere between lvl 6-9 I started placing into games with platinum and later with diamond players after I had winning streak like 15 games. Saw few Masters too. I was even getting ok team compositions and playing with people with golden frames and high levels.
LVL 9-14
I was waiting 3+ minutes for match, which was not fun at all. At this point I started to play more yolo/attack mercy style because it was painfull to wait so long time for game and I hoped I will lower my mmr to be placed with lower people again so I dont have to wait several minutes for match. Later I had feeling like I am in smurfwatch. Suddendly I was in few games with people who were all very low levels but definitely not begginers. At this point I had pretty bad games becuase I could not outshoot widows and other dps anymore. They were just better, while my team didnt protect me and didnt group up. Just zero team work.
LVL 14-18
I did noticed that I was playing with and against mid/high plat people at this point so my qp mmr went down little bit I guess. I even did few games in LFG and teamed up with high diamond people. These games were good. After that for some reason I started to get very bad teams before I managed to get lvl 18.
LVL 18-25
Tired of gruping up with randoms so I team up with friends from silver - diamond and played majority of qp time with them to have atleast some kind of team work.

Now I am finally lvl 25 and I can go to competitive :slight_smile:

Here you have same stats from quickplay.

Games played: 98
Time played: 14 Hours
Games won: 51

Games lost with proper team comp: 14
Games lost without proper team comp: 34

My Mercy stats:
Average Healing: 7533
Average Deaths: 6,3
Endorsement lvl: 2

Here are all my stats:

Wish me luck in placement, its 5 days before season end :). Feel free to comment or share ideas which informations from comp I should be collecting.

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What if someone picks Mercy before you? :slight_smile:

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In that case I will play different hero. I will do that if someone ask very nicely for mercy too probably. So If i will not able to play mercy I will pick Lucio or Zen because one of them will be following mercy when Im am done with her :slight_smile: . Not decided which one yet.

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ive already done this experiment

youll find it very frustrating because there is only so much you can do before reaching your carry cap and relying on team.
lock at 50% win rrate

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we will see, I am enjoying game even without climbing, my idea was to show how is it really looks like in OW. Is there really so many leavers? throwers?smurfs? Will people react differently to different heroes?. I will try to count all of them. Btw, I already finished placement but i will show results after I will make another 10 games so my SR will be stabilized. I have to say I was hoping for higher placement to be honest.

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you need at least 100-1000 games to give us real stats.
it sounds like you are trying to conduct a social experiment

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Haha, yeah kind of :), if you are interested my placement games are already uploading to my channel. I will make update here during the day.

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are they timelapsed with cuts? idk if I can sit through this entire experiments lol. try to highlight important things

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Why did u make other account when u are mercy one trick on this account

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No, i am recording whole match, nothing is cutted, you dont have to watch all, after I will write something about game, you can pick interesting ones :slight_smile: I didnt expect people will be watching all my games. I am recording mainly to have proof it really happened so nobody can say I am making this up.

BlueTwinkles

I am flex player, some heroes I like more so I played them a lot. I cant say mercy is one of my mains butI just played her a lot too. Usualy when I need to chill or I was tired to playing hitscan. And I wanted to start this on one acc, so its not affected by anything from previous playing.

If you dont believe me that I am not just Mercy one trick, I can show you my DPS account, no problem.

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I am posting from account I was playing so you can check my stats if you want. I already done placement and next 10 games to stabilize my SR. Honestly I expected more because I was placed lower than I deserved. Atleast thats my opinion :slight_smile: . I lost a lot in next games after placement because first games after initial placement are affected by SR boost so I was for example losing and gaining ±50 SR. But I was mostly losing.

Here small info about games. Not from all of them, only from game where something interesting happened:

Placement 1 - Reaper killed 5 people at the end of our attack round but i had potg by pocketing him :D.
Placement 2 - Bad game, We were able to actualy capture point when I solo killed both enemy dps players as Mercy. Rest of attack horrible same as defense. Might be thrower duo but cant be sure. But their defending position was atrocious.
Placement 4 - We had very good defense. Victory.
Game 1 - We captured poitn in last push practicaly in overtime, werent able to take second. Enemy team did. We had leaver at the end, probably rage quit, but it was already lost anyway so I dont count him.
Game 2 - Horrible game, team just refused to take proper tank in defend. Our first defend, Roadhog as solo tank, our attack Orisa as solo tank and in next round defend again solo Roadhog!. Game was literary lost because of that. And I think enemy team had smurf too, but he was just probably having fun, not tryharding.
Game 4 - Very good comunication in team.
Game 5 - Team comunicating but in French :slight_smile: I dont understand french.
Game 6 - We just could not get one good push on second point, enemy hammond and hanzo was problem.
Game 8 - We just could not break bastion+orisa+reaper combo and didnt push payload to 1 point. We lost fast.
Game 10 - We really tried to win but we were completely destroyed by GOATS. I was actualy suprised because you will not see this comp at this rank that often and especialy executed well. This was esception. Enemy d.va was pretty good. They probably had someone who gave orders because they were all solo players.

And here more data. Sr is value after game is finished. Comunication is YES or NO, depends if team had alteast basic comunication or not. Toxicity can have 3 levels, level 3 is whole team going full toxic mode :smiley:. Under special I will be writing smurfs(S), Leavers(L) and Throwers/Derankers(T).

Game SR Map Result Special Comunication Toxicity
P1 X Junkertown 3:0 X NO 0/3
P2 X King´s Row 1:2 X NO 0/3
P3 X Nepal 1:2 X NO 0/3
P4 X Eichenwalde 3:0 X NO 0/3
P5 X Watchpoint: Gibraltar 1:2 X YES 0/3
P6 X Busan 2:0 X NO 0/3
P7 X Lijiang Tower 1:2 X YES 0/3
P8 X Blizzard World 3:2 X YES 0/3
P9 X Temple of Anubis 3:4 X YES 0/3
P10 2610 Ilios 2:1 X NO 0/3
1 2558 Volskaya Industries 1:2 X YES 1/3
2 2503 Rialto 3:4 S YES 1/3
3 2560 Numbani 4:3 X NO 1/3
4 2608 Oasis 2:1 X YES! 0/3
5 2567 King´s Row 2:3 X YES 0/3
6 2533 Volskaya Industries 1:2 X YES 0/3
7 2499 Blizzard World 2:3 X YES 0/3
8 2465 Dorado 0:1 X YES 1/3
9 2503 Lunar Colony 2:0 X YES 0/3
10 2475 Volskaya Industries 3:4 X YES 0/3

All games above are recorded on my channel but I will stop recording next games probably, its time consuming to upload them. I will occasionaly record.

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Surprised you’re only endorsement level 2. I’d have thought you’d be at least 3 after all the qp and placements…

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Hmm :slight_smile: I am lvl 3 now. And I keep losing and losing… I know it is classic excuse but i am having really bad teams :smiley:

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If you are curious I used to keep track of my own games. I logged 1398 games before I stopped. I had a total of 27 games with leavers on my team & 148 games I considered to have some kind of toxic experience.

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I didnt have leaver yet. Thats why i am every time suprised when i see post like 6/10 games leaver… 1398 uff thats a lot :slight_smile: which elo? GM?

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Majority of the games are in diamond.

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This game looks really fun to me. Perfect example of why I think gold is the most fun rank.

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Interesting it took you 14 hours for 50 wins. I have been trying to use QP to better judge my ability with a hero and I base it on wins over time

With my best hero I can achieve 50 wins in less than 10 hours

I gave Sombra a try and managed 50 wins in 11 hours, so not bad averaging 5 4-5 wins an hour.

QP is an all round joke so I wouldn’t use it to officially judge my competence with a hero, but I do think if I can do better with one than another it shows in itself some information to work with for comp.

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I guess you are having fun on alt…
From my point of view(not exp) i am a pretty good mercy, but i go 50/50 dps/healing. The dps you get at gold are bad… GL if you can climb as Healing mercy. Usually if someone goes Bastion it is a victory or Ashe.

You will get Main tank and dps who had been hardstuck at that elo for Seasons, you might increase the winning condition by keeping them alive; but i would rather go 50/50.

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Hey, I have another update. It wast good guys, It wasnt good at all :slight_smile: . I didnt have so bad team mates for a long time. I mean, I know when I am doing mistakes, I am not the one who would blame others all the time, really not. But this was something special. Not sure if it is because season is ending in 4 days. But every other season I was pretty lucky with good games last days of season.

As I started In 2610 I managed to drop to 2385. Like wth yeah? I was supposed to go up, not down :smile:. One of my friends had to endure line of swears after almost all games, but I am starting every new game fresh and reseted with clear mind, no anger or tilting, sometimes I am just little bit salty if I meet some terrible team mates from past. Usualy I dont avoid them. I like to keep my journey spicy and interesting haha :wink:

I had some toxic team mates actualy. I honestly cant say if they were trolling or throwing. It definitely wasnt 100% throwing, I actualy think they were just honestly dumb. Saying weird things, something about gas and hitler, weird noises, classic teenagers I would say. I had to mute one of them. Like it wasnt enough one game, I had them after 1 more game again. And as bonus to them 1 guy acting very weird in voice chat. Another teenager or maybe brain damaged, cant really say. And it wasnt all. One guy running radio or some kind of monolog in vocie chat all the time. I actualy had to mute 4 people that game. Sure it was loss, but not steam roll.

In last two games I had finally good team mates and enemy team draw card with toxic one, constantly swearing in match chat how are his team mates idiots and other words.

Here is my data colletion from games :), still 100% mercy haha.
Special is : Leaver(L), Thrower(T) or Smurf(S), obvious ones.

Game SR Map Result Special Comunication Toxicity
11 2444 Junkertown 0:3 X YES 0/3
12 2422 Watchpoint: Gibraltar 1:3 X YES 0/3
13 2397 Nepal 1:2 X NO 0/3
14 2424 Lijiang Tower 2:0 X NO 0/3
15 2447 Temple of Anubis 4:3 X YES 0/3
16 2428 Lijiang Tower 1:2 X YES 2/3
17 2406 Rialto 2:3 X YES 0/3
18 2385 Volskaya Industries 2:3 X YES 3/3
19 2403 Blizzard World 3:2 X YES 0/3
20 2428 Route 66 3:1 X YES 0/3
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