Director’s Take – Matching up the Fun

I really mean in QP and arcade etc when people are just trying to crank out challenges real quick. Where I see a lot of GMs and top 500s versus golds and plats, matchups that aren’t even close to fair.

And before you try to give me the “MMR iS noT tHe sAme aS sR!” speech, I don’t really care that they started the match doinking around with Sym or Bastion just for fun, because as soon as it looks like they might lose, they just swap to their OG top 500 Widowmaker or Hanzo and wipe the floor with the poor metal players.

The only GM or Top 500s players who can’t swap to any hero and use the power of their superior mechanical skill to either hard carry or severely cripple the enemy team are Mercy OTPs. Any other top 500/GM player that mains any other hero can absolutely dominate a metal lobby even on their least played role/hero.

And that’s what I see a lot of. Especially stacks of them. You’ll see like 3 GMs grouped with some bronze console player and that lowers their group MMR enough that they can squeeze into a metal lobby. And if you think 5 metal players can beat 3 GMs even if there’s a Bronze bot holding them down, you’d be wrong.

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