I ask because I’m still wrapping my head around mine.
According to the game, I have a Masters Brig. Mind you, I have never been Master support, only Diamond, and I wouldn’t even consider Brig my best hero. I do like her a lot, but I would say my best would be either Lifeweaver (SR 3200ish), Kiriko (SR 2800ish) or Moira (SR 2500ish). That is such a wide spread and doesn’t really seem to correlate to their win/loss rate.
Are these numbers things I should consider to improve my game, or are they mostly meaningless digits that don’t tell me much at all? How do your individual hero SRs line up with your rank/preference? I’m curious.
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I’m a tank main, but I experience basically the same thing. Some heroes have a skill ranking that is way above my actual tank rank, and some heroes have a ranking that is way too low. On average, the hero rankings kind of match my actual rank.
I could imagine that these rankings get more accurate with more data, i.e. more matches.
Especially because you can only ever play one hero at a time, so unless you are a one-trick, the games that are considered within the computation of each hero SR are only a small subset of all your matches. This makes it even harder for blizzard to accurately produce skill rankings for each hero.
Also: I wouldn’t directly compare these hero rankings to your role rank, since you can choose your hero after seeing your enemies, teammates, map choice etc., thereby, consciously or unconsciously, manipulating your hero rankings.
For example, a dps player who usually only plays say cassidy might choose to play on widow if they see a sniper favoring map, like Havana. In doing so the game only ever judges how good this player is on widow when they are playing on Havana, which of course would not reflect their performance on other maps that do not favor snipers.
A player that say always plays widow, regardless of the map that they get, would therefore perform worse overall and would get a lower hero SR even if both players have the same skill on widow.
Players can subconsciously manipulate the hero SR of some heroes to be higher than it would be if they would always play that hero, but players can also accidentally produce hero ratings that are too low by playing some heroes only when they get a map that they do not like/they are bad at.
Therefore: hero SR can generally show you which heroes you are good at and which heroes you are bad at. As long as you:
- compare SR only between heroes and never confuse hero SR with your actual rating
- keep in mind that there are biases and that you might subconsciously be influencing the SR of some heroes
- do not extrapolate your hero SR onto your role SR (like saying “I would be a GM dps player if I would only play widow cause I have GM widow SR”)
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I have been told repeately by certain special people in my life that I am #1.
And when OW says im not even on the t500 Leaderboard , well, I juat…I mean…We have all seen OW roll back patches before but I’ll tell you what, my Gammys never been wrong!
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No idea. It said 3150 for Reinhardt and I got diamond as Reinhardt for the first time in Dos. Mostly because Orisa bans and they FINALLY balanced Rammatra. It was easy as pie. I have put my entire Crusadussy into it and never gotten results. I am trapped in Elo heck as Thor in Mahvel and yet casually swing my way up in OW. Make it make sense…
All I know is the way of hammer time. These chess systems in a team based game with wannabe OWL professionals and Helen Keller’s descendents are beyond me.
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I wouldn’t know because for some reason they didn’t want to show you that unless you play comp.
I don’t see why they couldn’t add a leaderboard or something for all game modes.
I’m GM2 with Champ 5 SR on Tracer…it’s close but not exact. Otps are generally ranked higher in SR than MMR