Feels like matchmaking is fixed to me

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h.ttps://www.overbuff.com/players/pc/Kuleto69-1584?

I mean, seriously, it feels like the game decides to give me good teammates some games and bad ones other games. A lot of the games are one sided, one way or the other BUT in defense of that, a lot of games can turn completely opposite after a half and a team switching up…But yeah.

I can be DPS and get 30% of team damage but it seems like our tanks and healers get wrecked, get rolled on… even if you get picks before a fight sometimes because ppl get wrecked by ult’s in silver and dumb plays and positioning are often rewarded. Can create huge team advantage at times and the team often will just sit there and not do anything…

Playing tank my team always seems a lot steadier and stronger, same with healer but sometimes then our dps can struggle, most of the time either because they dont know how to like properly play with the team or are bad picks against the enemies dps - say sombra and genji against hanzo junk (lol) with shield tank comps…

Im definitely not as good at DPS I feel as i use to be, (age, im like 33 and havent played OW as much as I use to, still though, can dps fine at the silver level…)…I use to be nearly like top 80% in QP but always still stuck in gold but whatever…

I’m not the best and definitely make a lot of mistakes but dang man…its quite frustrating…

For example, Im rein one game, were holding point B on Anubis and doing great, ez, we press forward at one point and are in mid or whatever its called, I make a mistake of trying to charge in one a low hp Baptiste with another person to the left, bad call as there is a group of their team at the door coming through from Pt. A, my team is all mid. I get surrounded and die but call out O crap im dead like before im dead you know, but from there our team gets absolutely demolished at mid somehow I guess w/o any picks and it somehow snowballs from there…Im like how dude? Its like im just a freakin rein and I would be back from spawn in time to fight on pt…and its like just omg…frustrating. How hard is it to like get even one pick…

And yeah while not perfect at all, I think my win record with D.va does show I have a lot of game knowledge and not too bad with positioning, decision making etc. Like, sometimes I’ll be questioning myself and aggressiveness sometimes but often can get my mech back in the fight still or having the team won the fight etc (effectively “tanking” and drawing time and attention of dps’ or offtank away from teammates…) But do feel quite anxious about getting de-meched sometimes for not having defense matrix for my team…but yeah…

I truly feel I dont care that much about my rank, bI do a bit and would like to get atleast a little better games even though gold is just nominally better (better tank play and much better heals in some/most games from what I’ve experienced though and better game sense and understanding by all players a bit or just a little more skilled…)…but yeah. Guess im just venting.

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Preaching to the choir. Every thread that insinuates that the matchmaking is rigged is shunned here.

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My friend the matchmaker creators believe that what they have done is to create a matchmaker that estimates people skill by looking at metrics. They have no idea what they are doing, it is big disaster and what I would describe as a “steampile”. The matchmaker is definitely rig, and as time goes on more and more people are to be noticing this.

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It’s an inappropriate system for a team game, but I’ve said it’s not so much rigged but that it is hidden . If Blizzard could just get over themselves, we all know it’s a kind of flawed Glicko system, and publish it, everyone could at least deal with the flaws in public.

Until then expect frustration. Unless you are trying to rank down which is not only completely under your control, but the lowest ranks are the very best ranks in the game as it is.

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Also why does the game seem to punish you for being flexible?

And yeah, MHz, i’ve believed this for awhile now. I know I’m supposed to be like some kind of low gold carry (in the past) and they try to like balance this by giving me worse teammates or going against like a similiar team with a “gold carry”, but I suck at carrying, i pretty much just play standard team play and positioning I feel like…unless the enemy team is obviously exploitable in some way (Soldier flanking on Rialto for ex., and like going to the Mega and then high ground and just being annoying/winning cause their tanks, healers getting pounded from behind and dont know what to do)

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Because, again, the system is too stupid to figure out all the nuances of the different classes. You get more accurate placement playing one character, and yet the game needs you to make counters and switches. It’s dumb.

Just play in bronze. The good news is nobody gives a damn one bit about your rank.

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