Hello,
I have been playing Overwatch since Season 1. Mercy is my main hero with over 1k hours on her on my main account. I have been in Bronze where I fell from Gold to around 1450ish way back in season one.
There is something going on, and I thought I would share. I am starting to get a bit annoyed, and do not want to suffer my team with yet another tilted player on Overwatch.
So normally I play Support. I enjoy playing Mercy, Brig, and Ana. I have a couple of other accounts that I play and normally the situation is that I play my best heroes and normally place either diamond or high plat in competitive.
I feel that the system is actually VERY good at determining what range you should be skillwise based on just a couple of QP games before you are able to Q for Comp.
On my other accounts when I started fresh I would check the ranks of the people I was able to. (Used to be easier before private profiles but still doable), and saw that around match 3-4 I would be placed against my normal pool of players in the Plat-Diamond range.
Now for this account I did things a bit different. Originally this account was named DoubleStrafe and I was intending to use it only to use Hanzo because he has always been a favorite hero of mine, but I never put any time into using him. Anyway I level up and again check the ranks of players in my match. Took around 15 matches to start facing mainly golds. I didnât see many plats or ANY diamonds which makes sense because I am dogpoo on Hanzo lol
Once I finish my support placements I believe I was placed around 2400. Normally I would expect to just cruise to diamond like I normally do, but my experience has been an interesting one, and is the reason I am writing this today. This is what I noticed:
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I was very frequently matched against the same kind of player I might run across in Diamond/Masters. It was kind of surprising how many very good players are in Gold. Having played a lot of Mercy I have developed a knack for knowing who the carrys are, and it felt like I faced a carry on the enemy team around 70% of the time. It was odd that I kept facing low level accounts like mine who were in Gold but played like they belonged in Diamond+.
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It is a struggle just to get close losses or wins. The games are close, but I feel like there is a heavy burden on me to perform as close to perfect as possible, and to take riskier plays because my allies are very unpredictable at times and do not position the best. This causes me to have to abandon a lot of players to die because helping would leave me vunerable. This is understandable and I am not saying they should play any different. Just pointing out my experience.
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I have noticed more cheaters than I normal. I would say around 5% of my games. When I report I get a âThanks for Reportingâ card around 90% of the time when I log back on later.
It came to a point that I questioned if just got much worse at the game. I logged on to my OG account and played some matches in High Diamond/Masters, and after having to adjust for the fact I could trust my allies to be more consistent I was able to play just fine. If you are curious I am a Plat Tank, Diamond DPS, and Diamond/Master Support on that account.
I am just at a loss why my experience is like this when in theory I should just climb back to where I normally play easily. My other accounts did not have this issue. This one I treated a bit differently, but then just came to use it to play the game normally with my normal heroes.
Is it because I am using Mercy/Brig? I donât believe any hero can be held back just because of the hero. I think when you put in time to improve you can climb on anything, but this account is an anomoly for me.
PF0CG3 <â A recent game of mine that lasted for 22+ minutes. Feedback welcome. Also if anyone would like to inquire about my old account just send me a PM. Also if it means anything I mostly solo Q.
No I donât care about rigging. Please donât bother with all that. Just want to know if I am anyone else has experienced similar and what they did as a workaround.
That is all. Thanks for reading.
Love, Peace, and Chicken Grease.
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