Its stomp win or stomp lose, you know how the game ends at the start, i just played against literally top 1 damage last season who is now doing Tank rankeds at Master 3 lol. He is obviously around GM3 minumum as Tank aswell.
Anyway, if it happens rarely, but today i just went 2-2 and the wins were absolutely free and loses absolutely unwinnable.
I cant understand how game this big can have so tragic matchmaking, its insanely insanely bad.
I dont talk about ranks now, yeah if you play 300 games you will end up at your rank, thats ok but its absolutely not fun. I dont even remenber fair match
Honestly smurfing completely kills ranked in ow
its honestly not even funny, its pretty ridiculous
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I been playing comp since around S3 of OW1. Thatās what, 7 years ago?
I stopped a few seasons ago in S8 of OW2. If you donāt bring a 5 stack, you WILL get stomped by smurfs, and I been in diamond/masters still getting this.
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Still more balanced than quickplay matches lmao
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If you want to really be challenged, play the terminally-online top 500 premades in QP. I swear itās the most fun thing ever /s
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Ranked? You mean green skin mode?
Yeah, dunno why more people arenāt all about that.
Itās so worth it
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The matchmaker is not designed to make fair matches. Itās designed to make quick matches to finish challenges faster, and to allow even the worst players to sometimes get Play of the Game. Think of it like a slot machine where you can sometimes control one of the spinning wheels a little, and PotG is the jackpot.
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I noticed that thereās been a lot of pity POTGs in my matches lately when I know there was something more substantial that happened lol. So weird.
There are some matches where the outcome is solely due to yourself, some matches where the best team wins, and some matches that are more or less decided at the start by the vagaries of matchmakingās inability to match beyond average ELO. The key is to always win the ones where you have the right to win, and not get tilted by the ones you lose where you donāt really have much agency in the outcome.
yeah but thats so sad, lets say you win 33% no matter what you do, you lose 33% no matter what you do and then your performance decides the rest 33%. So 66% of games are pointless
comp is only fun with a duo/trio
The only logical explanation is that the ranking system (and from there the matchmaking) is simply flawed and doesnāt represent actual skill at all.
Thats literally the issue, the game should use some AI clever ranking. Like - oh this guy is actually insane, lets give him 100% for a win for example. There is no reason that smurfs who are GM but playing at diamond mmr should play hundrets of games at false rank to hinder quality of the matches
The balance of the heroes themselves arenāt balanced let alone the matchmaker.
But its not just little unbalanced, its completely insane, you go from 60/6 to 5/12 game
Quick Play is borderline unplayable. Itās just trash match after trash match.
Funny part until season 3 it was exactly like that 
Played a few comp games this season and they have been really bad win or lose. Played some QP games and they are even worse lol. Honestly there is no hope for this game at this point. These new competitive shooters coming out I really hope are good because OW is on its last legs for me.
Get rid of EBMM and the MM will be fixed, hence the smurfing will have less points. Plus, I see no reason to play on my main if the q time just raises for nothing. Iād rather stomp pepegas in gold-diamond in one sitting where I play 50-70 games a session, rather than spending half of that time in gm/t500 q. Give something valuable for having skill and maintaining it. These 3 points will fix everything, but they need to sell skins, unfort. Imagine if they give free battlepasses and mythics for getting to top500? How much better itād be? Better q times, because the top500 now has the reward hence higher online and engagement. Better q times because the higher the online the better it is in any rank. Competitive integrity fixed, because now you donāt play to hardstuck in metals or any other rank just to play the āShopā game, now you want to be top500 and you are on competitive rails. Now being low rank means to pay, whereas having high skill means you get paid.
They like to say that they canāt revolve balance of the game around 1%, but when it comes to giving something to that 1% it becomes much more that than just the one percent, lol. Greed is good. Keep ruining your game. Donāt forget to buff LW next time, lol, so I have more incentive to farm these low rank lobbies where they born, like many other low-skill/ high-reward things such as moira. Like, imagine seeing moira in GM lobbies of OW1. There were just a couple of freaks up there. These days it is a norm.