How much does SR mean to you?

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It doesn’t matter, just post it here.

Nothing? Cool

A little? Alright

A lot? Okay

Everything? Right

For all the above… why? What does it mean to you? Something or nothing at all?

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If I lose it im confident I will get it back if im good enough. I guess I care about it, but I understand that it will take me to where I belong and I dont get worked up over it if it drops, because that means my performance dropped.

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SR means quite a bit to me. It means so much that it lets me know how well I am at playing with a team, but it doesn’t mean so much to me that I become obsessed with it.

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It’s always neat to see someone who has a dps main in QP, but a support in comp. :slight_smile: That confirms your perception with how well you’re playing with a team.

This is why I like public profiles. Never to berate or shame people, just to see where they’re coming from in the OW experience.

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Nothing.

Why should I care about my SR if I feel okay playing at that skill lvl ? There are no rewards for getting hight in SR ladder so why should we care about climbing ?

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I plan on adding my SR to my resume in the near future if that’s what you’re asking

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Nothing and pretty the same way Curiosity stated.

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The only reason I’ve played so much Genji is because of his Slice ‘n’ Dice achievement.

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Gordon Ramsay would be proud, maybe. :slight_smile:

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Not much anymore. I used to stress about it way too much and it started to destroy my enjoyment of the game.

Now I only do my placements for the comp points, so as long as I place masters+ I don’t really fret.

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Nothing at all. Back in S4 or S5(?) I really cared about climbing and getting a better SR, but it drained me and almost every game took more out of me than it gave back. It was super stressful.

So I’ve stopped and I just want to have fun now. Competitive OW is dead to me.

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Honestly I’m content with my SR. It doesn’t mean a whole lot. Would I like to climb? Sure but I also find my rank to be enjoyable so I don’t really mind.

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I made a random friend the other night in Diamond who said the same thing. He/She didn’t like fretting over comp anymore, and so they didn’t care that much about it anymore…

This is something that I haven’t had a chance to consider yet. I’ve only achieved Plat. I have friends in Gold and Silver who are saying that games will get better if we climb higher, yet I’ve read here on the forums that things will never change despite how high we climb…

It’s hard to see substance through the fog. These forums have a tendency to err on the negative side, yet there is truth in the words of experience.

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I enjoy playing in masters.
Playing in GM is always tryhard mode and often if you are not performing well ,your teammates are going to be extremely toxic.
And when I am high masters ( 3900+ ) I get to play with gms ,top 500

I don’t like it when the enemy WM is top 500 and our wm can’t do anything against her. On some maps ,it all boils down to who has the better sniper.

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Skill Rating means nothing to me; Competitive Points mean a moderate amount to me.

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It used to mean something to me when the game came out originally and for a few seasons after that. A lot to be honest.

After it’s become apparently obvious that competitive is not getting any overhauls and toxic behavior continually derailing the fun and purpose of a legit win… SR is more like a “you got lucky and probably have some skill” + or - 300 to 800 difference of where anyone is at currently.

I can’t even begin to describe how many wins or losses I received due to leavers and throwers in the past few seasons. It’s just purely disgusting. Does not represent what true skill is.

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Yeah, things definitely change as you climb, but those who have high expectations of great games in masters+ might end up disappointed.

The games become more competitive and intense, but there are still a lot of throwers and leavers. And due to the more competitive nature of things, players tend to get more toxic.

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Here I was thinking that throwers and leavers became less prevalent with the higher SR.

I see the advantage of playing comp in that you get matched up with a “relatively close” match of players…

But then you have no backfillers and an excessive amount of manbaby saltiness on mic-chat.

It’s hard to find a middle ground in this game.

I want to play a game where I can be matched with people around my SR who’re playing to win, yet not give in to the predisposition of yelling at teammates and being a salty baby when things don’t go their way.

Maybe I’m an optimist.

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I gave up once I hit masters and realized the game is still toxic as all heck.

Real let down, but I have fun in QP playing serious with no strings attached.

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I really don’t care anymore.

I’ve been gold my whole career. I was 249X three times and I could never get the next win for plat back in the early seasons.

Each competitive season seems to get worse in terms of enjoyment for me. I only do my placements now and generally play in the arcade.

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