I can’t believe how many people want to blame the system for their rank. It’s actually pretty disturbing how little accountability people want to take for their actions.
You deserve your rank. The matchmaker is extremely good at placing you where your social skills, mechanical skill, and game knowledge deserve to be. The system doesn’t punish you for having a lower rank in the past, or try to force a 50% win rate on you, or any of the other crap people tell themselves when they can’t climb. If any of that were true, people wouldn’t be making a living on selling GM boosts and alt accounts would be placing higher than main accounts.
Your rank is where you belong. Own it. Only then can you improve.
Elo hell goes against probability. People claim that it’s other bad players holding them back. There are 5 spots on your team for these bad players to appear. There are 6 spots on the other team. The bad players are more likely to be playing against you than to appear on your own team.
Give me your account and I can get it to masters in 2 days.
I won’t because it’s against TOS and boosting is just bad. but if someone were to give me an account and say “Get out of bronze” It is very easy to do.
“Elo Hell” as described is a thing and it’s un-avoidable. Even the pro’s face it and it’s not because they are being retained by the system but later, you see them climb 100-300 SR short after in a couple of streams. Point being, in many cases it probably is because of your underperformance, not skill level. Obviously, you cannot match a Platinum player to a GM player, can you?
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It’s not always you but it also is the system. If you can climb from like me to 3600 to 4k at one point and just decay but get back up there and sometimes being stuck in platinum but once being 4.3k (fellow friend of mine) does exist and happened to them.
Lots of people have done this, myself included. Plenty of streamers have done the bronze to GM thing, check it out on YouTube. Not to mention the fact that like I said, people make a living selling this exact service. They log on your account and boost it to whatever rank you want to buy.
It’s really, really easy if you’re a moderately good DPS player. I barely play the game anymore, and I’d bet a week’s worth of wages I could carry my way from bronze to high plat with at least a 70% win rate. I know that, because I’ve done it before while playing the heroes I was worst at. That’s not a brag; there’s just no way I would not be able to carry myself to within a few hundred SR of where I belong, because the SR system more or less works, whether or not people want to admit it.
I have a low gold smurf account.
This account is my main (plat).
So I did an experiment with my low gold and tried to see if I could get up to my rank playing my main heroes (tanks). Turns out, I can’t lol. You can’t control the actions of 5 other players. I finish most of the games with 3-4 gold medals and still continue to lose SR.
Great example of the typical attitude I’m talking about. Sadly, this is what a lot of people take away from the games, rather than figuring out how they could have done better.
Guess what top-tier Overwatch player now knows that elo hell is real? Custa. Last night he was doing his placement matches on his smurf account. He lost his first game in plat—this is an OWL player, mind you—and had to play his next game with golds.
He was absolutely shocked by the lesser quality of the games in gold. And it really, really hit him why some people in low ranks who really want to get out cannot get out. He even remarked on stream about talking to Jeff about this, and it wasn’t entirely certain that he was just kidding.
Look. This is the the sad reality, if you wanna make posts so you can tell yourself you can’t climb b/c “you belong there” then be my guest, but this game is a joke. You can and never will be able to control 5 other people who owe absolutely nothing to you in solo que. I due qued today with a friend. I played Mei and he played Rein. At the end of this game I had a total of 48 kills (which was gold elims btw). My friend who was REINHARDT had a total of 29 elims. Which was SILVER. Please explain to me how the actions of the 2 other insta lock dps on my team dident effect the games outcome and how I just belong in high plat.
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