No sugar coating it anymore

I used to say that I was decent, and that I performed at a pretty good level. Maybe Diamond tier, but now I’m honestly over that. Over the past month every game I play I look at my medals, which don’t mean much, but if your dps that should be getting easy kills doesn’t have medals on damage, or elims, than clearly they aren’t doing their job.

I hate doing the job of multiple people. half of the time the whole team will dive in, but our dps is sitting in the corner and dies alone, then asks for more healing.

As a tank my job is to create space, mitigate damage, and protect supports. I don’t need the extra job of eliminate every player on the enemy team and practically roll out the red carpet for you to get the last hit on the final enemy.

No, this time I really do feel I am playing above my skill level. With every game, even the ones we lose I feel as though I was doing well. No matter tank I pick, usually counter picking, I can do my job while doing more than I want to have to do.

This season I’ve learned how to do well with hammond, improved my winston play, tightened my D.va play, and have been killing it on other tanks like Zarya and Road. The last 2 are so easy in plat its not even funny. You get over 70% hook accuracy without having to do much, and stagger the enemy team no problem.

The only obstacle I have is my team. I used to try to be nice, but at this point I can’t tolerate having people that can’t do their job. I’m sure if I looked at the statistics the majority of players would be dps mains, and a majority of them probably play at a lower level than they are currently at.

Don’t give the player that may as well be afk the same SR gains as me. If I’m doing their job for them then why should they get rewarded. (its basically communism)

^ This is the problem with comp.

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Blizzard has already officially commented that not everyone gains and losses the same amount of SR even for the same game. The amount of SR you lose is dependent on MMR’s calculation of variance (the probability that the skill you’re displaying is an actual display of skill and not a lucky hot steak) and your personal contributions (including if you got MVP, POTG, your personal stats) and then this calculation is contingent on whether you win or lose. I notice if I play well (or maybe it’s just my current MMR to SR disparity) but the team loses, I’ll lose like 15-20 SR , whereas if I win and played well, I can get ~30+ SR.

Just keep concentrating on your own play and also being aware of how your hero compliments the other heroes on your team. Your SR will rise.

(I did my placements all with a 9 year old new to the game, who wanted to stay together so I could answer his questions. I was fine with that. The previous season I played I was around high 3000. After playing with him, this season I started at 500SR. Without tryharding and just playing the game, in less than a month I’ve gained over 500SR.

Just keep going.

I’m saying large difference though. Usually everyone will gain within 1-2 SR from each other. I’ve actually asked randoms in my game who stick around, and most people earn the same as me. Also in groups I’ve asked. There isn’t a distinguishable difference.

Sure, I climb. Then you get to diamond, with more throwers, smurfs, and leavers. Then you drop. Its the never ending cycle that keeps throwing me around. Honestly, if the game legitimately put you where you belong I’d say I would be around 3.4-3.5. Right now I’m sitting at barely below 2600, when I started at 3k. I’m tired of this cycle.

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OKay, but in my experience, even when I’m in a group of people, I have gained almost 2x the SR they did for the same win in the same game. How can you claim something never happens because it hasn’t happened to you personally? Just look at all the threads people are posting on a daily basis about this issue. Maybe it’s time to take a step back and consider you’re not the only one playing this game.

Welcome to the socialism matchmaker, where good players get paired with garbage players to make it a “fair match”.

You have no incentive to try or get better and people know that, it’s why everyone has given up and started throwing and not trying.

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Get ready to get attack by the naysayers and get ready to get blame for the Rankin that you have.

People keep pointing out the same thing over and over and we haven’t got a fix.
Posting here is more like venting , because nothing is being done about the competetive problem.

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Tbh I’d rather get a comp fix at blizzcon rather than a new hero, cinematic, and map. Comp is the main issue. The problems lie in the system, but as you said, nothing will get done. We are all just preaching to the choir.

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You went from high Diamond to low Bronze through placements?! I didn’t think it was possible to be placed so far from your previous season’s SR.

DPS is a stupid word in my opinion because some heros don’t necessarily do alot of damage for example sombra. Even in higher ranks most of the time unless you have a hanzo on your team your main tank or your offtank zarya are going to be doing the most damage as they are in front and control more.

Can honestly say after posting anything. My games become evens worse. I’ve tanked 600 Sr and am afraid to even touch my main much less the game anymore. Not worth playing when every game someone’s has to go widow with 3 other dps already on team…

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Post a vod of a close game where you think you did everything right yet still lost.

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Post a VOD of a close game where you thought you did your best but still lost

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Absolutely not. The difference is HUGE. I remember duo queuing with a friend (both in bronze at that time). We rolled the whole match, and basically I got carried. I did absolutely nothing but feed, and my friend and the others carried me. After the match ended, I got an SR gain of 12, while he got 36. So yes, there is a difference.

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I can post a vod of me literally winning a 6v1 in overtime to hold point A on space lunar colony, but because I was “balanced” with weaker players from the previous game, the enemy team quickly realized that focusing me rather than the healers or tanks was a more effective strategy. So they did just that, McCree solo ult’d on me and died and then immediately my team lost the 5v5 while I was dead. Literally, it was over right when I spawned. I honestly don’t know what more I could have done there.

What happened the other 4 minutes?

Just because you made a good play, doesn’t mean you played good.

In a VOD people can see your entire game and very likely mistakes that you yourself made.

I know from my own experience how easy it is to think you did everything good and at your best level. But when you look it back in a VOD, you see plenty of mistakes.

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I’m happy to send you the entire VOD. The other 4 minutes, our team was just hanging out at choke not pushing. It was only when there was less than 1 minute on the clock that everyone finally dived in. I fought in the team fight until eventually I was the only one left. Won the 6v1. I had gold damage, gold elims, gold obj. kills. I’d use my ULT to protect squishies from DVA bombs, soldier’s tactical visor, and high noon. I’d also use it to hold point. Situational. I welcome you to review the VOD and please point out where I could have done more.

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Just post the vod then.

Just post a youtube link or add me on battle.net, then we can talk when I get home

People flame Mei, Sombra and Sym for not doing a lot of damage when they don’t look at the utility they give, they don’t do a lot of damage themselves, medals don’t count good walls, good tps.

When the Zarya blames a Sombra / Mei / Sym for being silver or gold damage I just laugh, Zarya is better at doing damage than them, off tanks are pretty much dps with more hp.

Same applies to Doomfist, he gets a lot of one shots but doesn’t do a lot of damage if played well, a one shot is only 200 or 250 damage remember.

Another thing I see a lot in lower ranks is people almost think tanks and supports are useless and the dps has to do everything, DPS heroes can’t do their job without proper space from tanks, the only heroes that can get picks without space are Widow and Hanzo, stop blaming your McCree for not killing anyone when you are not pushing and the enemy team has a freaking 2000hp shield.

Some dps are very team reliant, they can’t do their job if their team doesn’t help them.

Instead of flaming people ask yourself why they can’t do properly their job.

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There was some surprising stat out there that classified people’s main (over 50% playtime on the hero), and surprisingly for gold and plat…DPS mains were only 1-2 slots of the top 10 for people.