Okay so before anyone goes “you deserve to be in that rank cuz git gud”; I was 2900-3100 in SEASON 2. After season 2 it was master/grandmaster/top500 with a peak of 4325sr. This season i peaked 4141sr (support role). My lowest sr since role queue is like 3860 maybe, + I havent ended the season lower than gm since role queue.
So after my peak this season I just got losings streaks only. Everyday was like 10 wins 18 losses. So at first 4000sr, then 3.8, then 3.7, then 3.6, then 3.5, then 3.4 and eventually i got to my lowest point ever in 3 years, 3.3k. Now I do not tilt, blame teammates, get mad at teammates or throw games because i got mad.
Man, I gotta say this elo is just something else. I have seen people play like golds and people play like high masters/gm players, but still stuck in diamond. Like this is the worst elo to be in, anywhere from 2900-3600 is just terrible. I can’t even climb my way out of this as a support player (i main all supports except lucio, mostly play ana/zen). Note: I still have my alt account which is 4060sr and I still win games on that one.
Why can’t I climb (or why can’t you climb)?
This meta is just a tank meta. If your tanks get outtanked then it’s a loss usually.
Smurfs - I used to be like “well they will climb out soon so go next”. But ALL smurfs get placed around high plat - diamond. So you don’t play against 1 smurf in your 10 hour gaming session, no, you play 40% of those games with/against smurfs. Getting stomped on, getting spawncamped, hearing everyone blame each other. Ye, fun.
Alts - so people with alt accounts who are trying out new heroes. Nothing wrong right? Thats what i thought. Until they appear in your game, one tricking their hero and learning all kinds of stuff. Ball one tricks getting countered HARD, but won’t swap because they have to learn to play ball. Today I had a game of 2 enemy smurfs one tricking sym and torb. They got stomped on by us, but refused to switch because they need to one trick their hero to a certain elo maybe? idk.
Gamesense. As I said some of these people have the gamesense of someone who just bought the game, while still being diamond for some reason. It’s just insane. I don’t have any words for it. Just the positioning, ult economy, counter picking, keeping track of enemy ults.
It’s almost impossible to climb out. I can make zero mistakes on Ana/Zenyatta and still lose because of one the reasons mentioned above. It also caught my attention that whenever I get a really really good game, my next game will have a lower average team sr and usually results in a loss. Today (3430sr) I went like 31-2 on zenyatta in a game. My next game had a average of 3.1k team sr and was just a horrible experience.
Yeah, high plat to low masters can be hell. Even Jake said that the games got a lot easier for him when he hit masters on different. However, difficult doesn’t mean impossible. If you have above a 50% win rate (or just gain more sr than lose) , you can climb out of any rank. It might take hundreds of games, but if you play enough, you will eventually climb. If you want a duo partner, I will gladly play with you on this account. My btag is Iamsocool#1573.
System is rigged so it makes people buy new accounts and try and try again. The SR starts from the first game in quickplay. If you “spoil” your games until you can play comp you are guaranteed to land in a crap team. The system is rigged folks and you can either pay up a new account and try or uninstall and move on.
No one cares about whether something is not impossible. That’s no consolation. People don’t want to be dragged down. And the matchmaking is getting worse and worse.
In before the " Everything Blizz Does is perfect and matchmaker is a thing of beauty" crowd shows up. It’s crazy how every single day there are people who independently come to the same conclusion about the match maker and post about it but like clockwork there’s always someone who will dismiss all the evidence and actually defend the a matchmaker. You know…the matchmaker which is the least transparent mechanism in all of Overwatch.
Blizzard does some incredibly stupid things, like the China appeasement policy they seem to be following, and selling out to Activision. The matchmaker isn’t rigging your matches - that says the matchmaker knows who is tilted, who is drunk, who is alert, who has decided to throw, that that person’s internet is going to drop out. None of that is true, or even physically possible with current technology. The 50/50 statement refers to probability related to team average SR comparisons. That is all. An improvement they could make in role queue is restricting the comparisons to that specific role (ie. compare the dps with the dps, the tanks with the tanks, not the overall teams), it would ameliorate the effectiveness any particular role has with the current hero balance and make the matches feel a bit more even.
Many top 500 players have made livestreams of themselves going from unranked to gm/top 500. Sometimes they even do it in one-sitting. They are able to get back to top 500 with a 70% or higher win rate. The reason they are able to get such a high win rate is because they are better than people in masters and below. If you have a 50% win rate at any rank, there is probably a reason why(and it isn’t your teammates). Recently, I was able to climb from 2000 to 2500 sr with what I estimate is about 7 hours or less of game time. I was getting like 30 sr per win and like 16 per loss because my mmr was so good. Every game, I would just play zarya and get gold elims and damage by a large margin and carry my team to victory. I would also get a bunch of endorsements for shot-calling and good teammate as I would communicate a lot with my team and stay positive even if they were feeding their brains out because I knew I had the capability of carrying them. (Note: The mmr on the account like the first few games was really bad where I was losing more than winning.)
And Hear it is. The Matchmaker defender who knows absolutely nothing. Wtf do you mean the matchmaker cant predict disconnects?? It may not be able to predict but it sure as heck can make an informed guess! If someone disconnect 10 out of 100 games. That’s a 10% chance and that 10% can be figured into the MMR. Or maybe it tries to keep a equal disconnect % amoung all the players so that each team has an equal chance of a disconnect. Now supposed each player on one team has %2 chance of disconnect and the other team has 1 player with 12%. It’s not hard to see how the matchmaker could easily stack disconnects against you. It’s people like this who have NO IDEA how simple statistics work yet will tell you how the matchmaker CANT do things it very easily can do.
I think your reading comprehension needs some work. You either didn’t actually read what I said, or you are unable to understand what I said. It cannot. Can Not. Guarantee a win or a loss. It can only make a prediction. There are a large number of variables that affect the outcome of the match that the matchmaker has no way of knowing.
I don’t think I have disconnected in months. However, if I wanted to, I could just pull the plug and nobody would be able to predict that. That is just bad luck but you still have the other games. Let’s make an assumption that you get throwers, leavers, etc. that cause you to lose 30% of your games. You should still be able to win 70% of your games. Let’s go even further. 40%. You should still be able to win 60% of the games. Let’s say you are unluckier than Chipsa, 49% of your games. You should still have over a 50% win rate, meaning that you will climb. The thing about this is that the percentage of games that are unwinnable is nowhere near these percentages that I mentioned. If you make a spreadsheet of games with people blatantly throwing, (I don’t mean making a few bad plays), leaving, etc., you will find that it is significantly less games than you think it is that are the reason you lose. You will also get games that the enemy team has throwers, leavers, etc. and they will complain about their teammates and how they are holding them back. People who complain about consistently getting bad teammates have unreasonable expectations of their teammates. If you are playing in silver, you can’t expect to have XQC every game. You are going to get a reinhardt who charges into the enemy team for no reason, constantly let’s his shield break, and never creates space. I will admit that sounds like a terrible teammate. However, the enemy reinhardt does the same darn thing. If you want to be gold, you have to accept that fact and realize that statistically over hundreds of games, the other 11 players in your games will average out to being of near identical skill level, which means that if you play like a gold in each of those hundreds of games and carry your reinhardt, dps, and supports, you will be rewarded with the gold rank icon. If you can’t consistently outperform silvers, then you deserve to be silver or below.
Oh really? So If I was to take the stats of a Masters and take the Stats of a gold, just by looking at the numbers of the stats, I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between the Gold or the masters? Your telling me that neither I nor the matchmaker could tell the difference? Because it has Nooooo way of interpreting this information? So if the matchmaker was to take the one Master player and place it on a team, the matchmaker wouldn’t be wieghing the match in a certain teams favor? How about a less extreme example. The Matchmaker can’t tell the difference between an overpreforming Gold player to an underperforming one? Of course it can’t take every little veritable into consideration because it doesn’t need to. That’s why MMR is hidden.
I don’t know if you would or not. The gold player would be playing against other golds, the masters player would be playing against other masters. I don’t know how that would affect the stats.