I am a healer main that has been stuck in plat/gold for a while now. I am slowly climbing to diamond, but when I was about 2500 (i am 2900 now) i decided to make another account to see if I could maybe place straight into diamond. I finally got it level 25 today. I went 8-2 in my placements one-tricking moira with a 8.1 E/D ratio and 25% on fire and i thought i might have been able to get diamond, but i placed 2384. Does anyone have an explanation on how exactly placements work?
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New Accounts typically place in gold. They also gain SR faster for like the first 10-15 games.
You can gain up to 50-60 SR on a win if it’s a fresh account
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Do you remember the order of wins and losses?
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I believe I lost the first and fourth games
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The game looks at your performance in quickplay and determined you play roughly like a gold player. When you queued up for comp, you were matched with gold players. You will not place higher than what you matched against even if you go 10-0.
If you are good enough for diamond you will climb up to diamond. If you aren’t you won’t. It’s really that simple.
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oh god stop giving Blizzard money when they arent even trying to improve the game. (I deeply regret having an alt account)
Anyways, placement SR are randomly generated imo.
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why u can probably do w/e u want including taking the servers down as long as u buy more accounts. All blizzard seems to care about is money and not what alts do to comp and the game in general, hell even on forums ive found for aimbotters they say if u get banned you can just switch accounts and thats it, no IP change or anything. Like they literally do nothing to actually enforce any punishments on people with multiple accounts
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You have to crush your placement games. To place diamond by your final placement games it should be putting you in with masters.
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They are not randomly stop trashtalking
you start at 2500 SR, if you lose your first game you need like 4 wins to get back to 2500
your performance is heavily factored in and each win/loss can get you anything from 10 - 200 SR
if you go 8 wins then 2 losses you pretty much place in diamond or higher
if you go 2 losses then 8 wins you probably never get past 2500
Don’t smurf, please.
All accounts start competitive around 2350 (quick play doesn’t matter), and early games matter most. I ran it through the model at Initial Competitive Skill Rating, Decrypted, and got that you should have placed at 2773.
| SR | GAME | CHANGE |
|---|---|---|
| 2350 | 1 | -95.4911 |
| 2255 | 2 | 91.6402 |
| 2346 | 3 | 87.7893 |
| 2434 | 4 | -83.9384 |
| 2350 | 5 | 80.0875 |
| 2430 | 6 | 76.2366 |
| 2506 | 7 | 72.3857 |
| 2579 | 8 | 68.5348 |
| 2647 | 9 | 64.6839 |
| 2712 | 10 | 60.833 |
| 2773 | 11 |
You placed noticeably lower than that (at 2384). My guess would be that your early games had poor performance as well, but that is just a guess. Most people with this record do place plat.
this sounds like a nice stat. But you forgot the one factor in there that they do NOT factor in…
THE SMURFF-THROWING TOXIC TEAMMATE FROM THE nether…
i just got to 3019 sr yesterday, so I guess you were right
i just finished my placements and one tricked lucio, went 7-3, placed 2959, played 3 more and went 2-1 after placements and got into diamond. you literally have to play seriously in QP, crush in ur placements, put up the numbers, get the cards and get the wins. all my losses were in OT and were so damn close. i wish i woulda gone 10-0 but i didnt. it is what it is.
my main is 3853 and as a healer you can do a lot to carry but you rely heavily on ur tanks and dps performing, u can heal as much as possible but if the damage isnt there. you are in trouble. in my opinion, being a healer main is and can be very rough. especially if you solo q like myself.
Fresh accounts use QP MMR for your ranked games. If you want a head start in ranked, you gotta super tryhard in QP up to level 25.
This is why people only level new accounts in custom games when they want to do a “climb to GM” stream or whatever. Because that will start you around 2500.
No they dont. First placement game is around gold. After 10 of them you can end up anywhere from bronze to masters.
Rest of your text is right tho.
That’s actually incorrect. Any account that attempts Competitive for the first time, whether a fresh Lvl 25 or even a Lvl 2000 account that has never attempted Competitive before, all start at the median.
Check here:
Also, Twitch
Also thats how we can be sure that alot of smurfs are also throwers. ALOT of them have been throwing all their placements
This is not true. It has been stated before qp and comp are completely seperate mmr’s. The base starting value for a new account in comp is 2500sr and then goes up or down from there based on performance.