How do they determine how much SR to give per match? I’m in bronze 1 currently, and get maybe 2-4% a match. I play tank, and tend to do decent in the games I win, high dmg mitigation, and okay dmg, along with lower deaths. I then will lose 8-14% if I lose a match.
Is it a rank thing? or is it really just that I have to win 20+ games just to get out of bronze 1?
I climbed out of Bronze a year or more ago and had the same issue. Unfortunately, it seems like they really want you to “prove yourself” to climb out, which would be fine if they did something about all the smurfs that are down there. (For the record, I’m currently Plat and play with Diamonds, so I can attest to this. The way smurfs play down there is very much on the Plat-Diamond level. People like to think Bronzes are just mad and complaining because they’re bad and lost - which can be the case - but a lot of the time there is truth in their claims.)
But yeah, you’ll get a few points here and there for a win, but eventually 3-6 points turns to 6-9, which turns to 9-15, which turns to 15-20, then stabilizes. I remember the change happening around low silver, so you’re almost there. It’s rough. I can empathize. Keep ranking up and you’ll see those points increase eventually. Just remember: you’ll never beat the system, but don’t let the system beat you. It’s frustrating, but when you stop letting the big losses and small wins get to you, you’ll climb.
For a possible explanation:
I used to think it was performance-based, kbasing your damage/healing/KD on the average amount of that rank, but I’ve recently developed an alternate theory:
I *think* this is a remnant from the old system where 500-1500 SR was Bronze, then it started to normalize with 1500-2000 was Silver, then 2000-2500 was Gold, etc. or something like that. Bronze had so much more space to climb than before, so even if you’re winning an actual 20-30 points per game (around the same normal amount as every other rank), you’re earning less percent than other ranks because of the wider gap. Once you get to Silver, each rank is 100 points, so 20 points out of 100 is the same as the percentage.
I have absolutely no proof to back that up, but it makes sense and explains the low percentages until you get to Silver.
Anyway, good luck on your climb.
Youre asking a few questions that point somewhere ..
I think its important to ask how ladder games physically work…
Its chaos.
The dominoes fall on their own sometimes.
To climb solo, you must play above your rank
Because you must account for mistakes of friendly and enemy, meaning you must be 9001 IQ to account for the 9002 ways your team will silently break formation
If you had a 2 or 6 man team (6 is better) and ran formations and plays, like synchronized swimmers, youd easily dominate ladder….a different can of worms
Another thing you can do is play avoid /pin roullette which will gain you at least half a rank. Tedious to do this.
Can also force maps or hero bans in your favor, or at least away from enemys favor.
If youre getting high stats and losing, try minimizing your stats and winning.
The 2 part theory there, A) tinfoilwise instead of getting top stats and making MM think youre the carry, you do opposite, still win but it doesnt pair you with potatoes to carry next game B) Reality youre also playing more cleanly, andefficiently, only kills that matter, no trash damage, space out and time your ults…not attracting enemy to shoot you…
Realistically my best tip is watch your own vods back with a cold eye, and a pencil and paper.
it depends on how long you have been playing comp. The SR normalizes once you do a high amount of matches. I’ve been in elo hell before overwtach 2 because of this (stuck in gold, touching platinum but never able to becoming one), after playing a lot of matches, the system thinks you belong there and every win gives you a miserable % compared to a loss.
This season should reset it and refresh your rank, even it may boost yours to climb to silver. But I’d recomend you to wait a couple of weeks, test the new heroes and then do comp, because the ammount of players playing the new heroes and doing whatever instead of cooperating here is quite high.