How To Check Someone's Rank?

General Discussion
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In Quickplay, how do you check a private profile’s rank? I feel like I’m being put into games with GMs or something.

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You can’t.

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Ahh that sucks. I kinda give up when I see the enemy doing so well. I assume either they’re either a high rank, or a group of high ranks. The unknown makes it demotivating, since I don’t know if I even have a chance of winning.

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I’m pretty sure if you click on their name you can open their profile and see their rank. This only works if their profile is set to public though.

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I haven’t seen 1 open profile yet.

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Well I don’t know why you would want to anyways? Would it make the game different for you somehow?

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The most common opponents should be gold or plat, assuming no matchmaking at all. Depending on your skill level, it’s possible to be completely destroyed by a plat.

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It’s nice to know if I even have a bronze level chance, that I am. Going against gold or higher pretty much = I’m going to lose. I have almost no skill at this game.

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No, it does not. Single best feature added to the game was private profiles. All it did was create toxicity. “Why is Mercy one-trick on tank?”, “You’re level 1900 and hardstuck in plat”, that’s what it did.

It does not.

You will know either way. If they’ve got default skins and low endorsement levels, they’re likely GM smurfs and if they’re running together into your spawn team ulting, likely a stack.

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I speak only for myself, and I don’t give you permission to tell me it does not. Not knowing what ranks I’m going vs is VERY demotivating when their Widow starts popping off everyone’s head.

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None of your bussiness

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It really doesn’t matter. Even if you see the rank, you have zero context around that rank. I’ve played with diamond players that were garbage and I’ve played with gold players who popped off like they were t500.

For all you know, that gold player has been practicing in QP for a hundred years, or that GM player hasn’t touched the game since the dawn of time and has forgotten the basics.

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You don’t, regardless of their rank.

And this is how I know.

It’s fine to assume the game is going to be a loss, but to stop trying is entirely counter-productive. You will never get better if you don’t put in every ounce of effort that you can.

If you like losing, then, by all means, continue giving up.

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If you leave comp for too long, rank decay hits and it’ll strip you of your rank. You have to go through placements all over again.

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True, then maybe they’re playing a hero they’re unfamiliar with, there could be any number of reasons that someone isn’t performing optimally.

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If I’m vs bronze or silver, I have a chance of winning. If I’m vs gold+ I will not win. That’s how it works.

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That is not how that works. There’s always a % chance of winning. Giving up reduces that to a guaranteed 0.

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So what you’re saying is that rank doesn’t equal a general skill level? That someone of a higher rank does NOT in fact likely have a higher skill level and the chances of winning are NOT higher fighting someone of a lower rank?

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No but it can be said that overall the game has a 50-50 chance of going either way if you try. The fact that one player is highly ranked does not change what the rest of the lobby is.

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I’m currently on an 18 streak loss, with 62 games played, 16 wins, 46 losses. I’m not going to win vs ANYTHING over silver. And, even silver is pushing the chances of me winning to it’s limits.

Edit: I think that’s 9.92% winrate?