the comp system will punish you for being too good
if a smurf is actually gm but is ranked plat
his MMR will top and it will fill the game with a gm against
smurfs are all struggling to climb it means they will ruin even more games than before
their comp system also slows down high top 500 and destroys them if they lose a game
why do you think no one has reached champ 1 already
GM player, plays against GM players.
Sounds fine. If you’re annoyed be badge doesn’t change, tough?
you don’t get it it means the smurf aren’t going up at all it means they remain in plat to destroy games the issues is a plat 5 doesn’t have to play agaisnt an actual ranked gm just because his MMR is very high it stops everyone from climbing out of plat because of that issues
Nope, if you have gm mmr, you will be in gm lobbies. You wont be in plat lobbies. Only MMR is used for matchmaking.
Your visual rank has nothing to do with matchmaking, and regardless, visible rank and mmr go hand in hand these days.
The reason there is less very high ranked players than before, is because they re-distributed the ranks.
Masters+ is more exclusive than before by design, since season 9.
Yep. And the modifiers will push your visible rank up to your MMR as you win. So winning in a GM lobbies with a plat rank should give you quite large jumps if you have a solid win rate.
if you’re gm i dare you to play in plat man truly you won’t climb as soon as the game decides your MMR you won’t be able to climb when you will win you will gain 10% and when you lose you will lose 30% because of their system it won’t help you climb
i can swear to you that it does not go hand to hand there’s an overall MMR for each game that decides of your bonuses by the end of the game depending if you lose or not it determines if your win is “expected” or not and will give more or less points
also the one subbing agaisnt for your MMR can be a tank and you could be playing healer which makes it unfair as well it was not like that before it truly changed
Your mmr goes up as you win games and goes down when y ou lose games. There is no “decided mmr”.
MMR is what is used for matchmaking, your visible rank is not used in any way.
You can swear, but thats how it is.
https://ibb.co/Twh3Q8H
https://ibb.co/j3dM6TH
https://x.com/SrslyPaladin/status/1757144821066870859
MMR still exists, just your rank will always be an up-to-date reflection of your MMR after every match.
Regardless, only mmr is used for matchmaking so its really not that relevant if your visible rank and mmr are tied or not. That is a change they did on season 9 anyways.
If your visible rank was plat and your mmr was “gm” you would be playing in gm lobbies while having a visible plat rank. Not the other way around.
Because only mmr is used for matchmaking.
Regarding rank distribution:
https://x.com/SrslyPaladin/status/1806088759508930816
Also this reddit post might be of interest for you:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/1cmxazn/blizz_winter_spilo_twitch_chat_qa/
i still would insist for you to test it if you are gm
I’ve seen. A GM friend of mine take people’s account, from any rank to GM.
If you’re stuck in plat, that’s not a game issue.
tell him to try again now this season
He took an account from gold to GM last week.
waste of time to argue with you just seeing your reply’s to most post you sound like a very annoying person to begin with
you better be good at the game yourself to have claim’s like you have
Shame. You don’t get the information you want, and immediately go on the attack. Standard forum behaviour, just a bit boring and lazy.
I’m content with my skill level.
you’re being passive aggresive on every single post you reply to
also if he climb as a tank obviously it’s easier
if you dare give advise and you’re gold at the game yeah it’d be kinda sad
Oh it’s terrible. If a GM player is in plat and it recognizes they are good enough to be against GM players then why not give them the medal? Another example of broken, stupid matchmaking. It’s just a club full of people with awful ideas patting each other on the back over there and lying about their successes, “we have 100 million players!”
Bad.
He climbs on any role people pay him to climb on sadly.
I’ve played in every rank. I have no desire to grind the game or try improve anymore. I just play because it’s fun.
So, any advice you want to give will be respected, and taken on board. But I probably won’t do a lot with it.
then what’s the point of permissive games what’s the point of the rank itself ? i don’t
understand how that is balancing their game ? because this does destroy everyone’s rank it truly does not just the plats but the diamonds the masters even the gm’s
Whatever you’re saying, I agree, the matchmaking is bad.
Not really sure what there would be to test. Only mmr is used for matchmaking, and thats how it’s been since ow1.
If you run into “smurf”, then you both have similar mmr’s as everyone else in the lobby.
There arent other values than MMR they use when setting up matches. (outside of checking if youre grouped etc.)
https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/23910161/
Some things in that blog post are out of date as its two years old by now, anyways under tldr:
Your ranked games are formed based on your internal matchmaking rating (MMR), regardless of your displayed skill tier.
and in the faq section:
Q: Does my competitive rank affect matchmaking?
A: We only create matches based on players’ MMR, not the visible competitive rank.
Anyways, Blizzard should have communicated the rank re-distribution they did at season 9. It was quite big mistake imo not to talk about.
Understandably many players have been frustrated/confused on why they dont reach the same ranks they previously had.
They havent said what the new expected rank distribution is, but it could be that for example diamond is now top 10% of playerbase, from the old ~15%, masters top 2% instead of top 5% etc.
the reset of ranks were needed too much people had reached the top ranks
but no matter what i still believe that with a 60% to 70% win ratio you still should climb
winning a game and getting 10% while -30% by losing one is excessive