just wondering how many progress updates it takes yall to rank up. my progress seems very slow, lots of updates where I don’t move at all within my rank. Is it the same for you or are your progress updates constantly moving you up/down?
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Its literally all over the place. New accounts will move faster, old accounts will move slower, very old accounts will not move (MMR is hard locked with 100% system confidence you will never beat)
Basically my suggestion wait till S9 hope they actually got it right this time and everything before that point was just practice.
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That tracks. Explains why i can go 5-0 and still be stuck in bronze 5 despite the game telling me I’m better than most players in bronze.
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Bronze 5 is a 1500sr range. It’ll take forever to get out (up to maybe 60 wins).
The % figure is complete nonsense.
That’s the neat part…I don’t.
Wins grants around 15-25 SR. If you are at 800 SR now after 5 wins you would have 875-925 SR. And Silver starts with 1000. Just an example
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lol. no wonder they are giving everyone the ability to heal themselves next season.
It would be great if they gave us actual numbers these days. One thing I liked about the old OW is i could see exactly where I was after each game.
Exactly this change is planned for the upcoming season
That is great. I’ll probably play more because of this change. EDIT: or maybe less, once i can actually see how busted their rating system is 
Silver starts at 1500. Everything below is bronze. The biggest range is B5: 0-1100.
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If I’m playing on my main role and I’m functioning well that game it takes on average 10-15 games to rank up and typically 10 wins. I rank up from the previous rank let’s say plat 4 to plat 3 38% to plat 3 86% to plat 2 37% to plat 2 75%. And so on.
If I play when I’m sick, am in a lot of pain, or haven’t slept well I’ll go on a loss streak and start to derank so I usually stop playing for a few weeks at a time. But if I’m in a good state I can rank up a few times in a single day.
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One of the most frustrating and insulting things about comp.
Congratulations! Not only do you not rank up but you will rank down but don’t worry you are better then 99.9999999% of the players in this rank. 
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Constantly up/down. Solo queue rank-up is next to impossible in low elo. People can say “git gud” all they want, but it’s a TEAM GAME for a reason. It will take forever to actually rank up.
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Too slow. I haven’t ranked up since season 3. I did the opposite and ranked down…
True. But if you do “git gud” you will very quickly be better than close around you and start dictating the pace of games.
If you’re on an aged account you have to play an enormous amount of games and that number is exacerbated by smurfs who dodge high queue times by playing on lower rated “alt accounts.” Not that they see the irony in making the already small high ranked population even lower, but they throw the balance of matchmaking out the window and despite there being relatively few such players, their impact is enormous because outside of streamers who play for a living no one has the time to “compensate” for all these factors like cheaters, smurfs, and deranking bots.
What ruins the game the most is that smurf protections is not well thought-out. It’s likely based on the assumption that most smurfs want to get boosted to GM but unless it’s a streamer doing Unranked to GM it’s really not the case. Most will soft throw or play laid back to keep their respective alts from skyrocketing to their actual rank.
Grouping is too wide, it should never be allowed for groups to be wider than 3 skill tier divisions (1 division in GM, 2 in masters, 3 for Diamond and below), but right now you can do max ranging and combine it with the relaxed grouping rule to throw the already fragile matchmaking out the window. How? Well, you ask someone (or several someones) to have a competitive update and then intentionally lose 10-14 matches. Then you group up with the maximum range officially allowed, and you can get really wonky lobbies where the corresponding player in the enemy team is truly much lower than everyone else in the lobby. This makes for easy stomps and can be used for boosting, paid or unpaid, doesn’t really matter.
Then you have cheaters, and while some will be obvious, many others will try not to be obvious. They won’t finish all their kills, they’ll never headshot, they’ll shoot at ground and walls to keep average accuracy low, they’ll set a low area bubble for the aimbot to kick inside of, they’ll use triggerbots, autohotkey, and so on. Cheats for multiplayer games are such a big business that it could easily be listed on the stock market, and that’s because there’s a lot of demand. Players find all kinds of reasons to cheat, they’ll tell you wet from dry and even gaslight people into thinking cheaters are as rare as unicorns.
Now, ranking up in a functioning ranked system should be quite fast, about 80-100 matches should be more than enough but in Overwatch it can be as many as 800. I kid you not.
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I wonder if this was their intention with this system, to make ranking up slower. It feels terrible for someone that doesn’t sink their entire gaming life into overwatch competitive though.
In two season i’ve finally escaped bronze, playing DPS (tank and support it was easier). I was stuck in B5 for several seasons. It’s a very old account with a lot of hours.
Just play at the end of the season in ranked, the rest of time, play QP, you have shorter queue times and better opponents, you will improve faster not wasting your time. After a 20-7 (5-1,5-0,5-6,5-0) i’ve reached S5 from b3. You don’t need to play a long time to climb. You have to be effective.
The third game session was really tough, i was put against smurfs after a 10-1. I’ve finished it with a 5-6…
Yeah, it’s so slow. It’s not matching my increase in skill. I’m winning but nothing is happening.