There’s too much of a skill gap and it puts whatever team the silver is on at a significant disadvantage.
You should only be allowed to queue 1 rank above or below, not 2.
This is how the matchmaker should work instead of a 1000 SR difference allowance, you should be able to only queue with 1 rank above or below your current rank:
Bronze - Can queue with other Bronzes and Silvers
Silver - Can queue with Bronze, Silver or Golds
Gold - Can queue with Silver, Golds or Plats
Diamond - Can queue with Plats, Diamonds or Masters
Masters - Can queue with Diamonds, Masters or GMs
GM - Can queue with Masters, GMs and T500 players
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Golds can queue into gm matches, suprising?
They’ve done this to shorten queue times, hopefully in the future we’ll see short queue times and more fair matches.
Are they plat on another role or on the role they were playing in the match?
A plat DPS may not be a plat tank.
No they were just queueing with their platinum friend, which shouldn’t be allowed since they’re clearly much less skilled than a platinum to be at that rank, it’s an unfair burden to the team that has the silver. A silver ANCHOR TANK at that is almost a guaranteed loss.
What’s even worse is this match gave us a silver but the enemy a diamond.
And no they’re universally silver.
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It is kind of crazy, as long as I am not 3k, I can queue with my friends that are silver and, well, yeah, those games are not balanced. I either solo carry or we lose. Rofl.
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1000 sr gap is just too much. it should be 500 max.
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Exactly, a gap of 1000 SR is too significant, since a silver player is easily many times worse than a Platinum.
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I’d restrict it to only one rank. Bronze + Silver, Gold + Plat, D + M, GM + T500
It depends. You would be surprised. Specifically Mercy. A lot of the lower ranked Mercy are so much better than the higher ranked ones. I think it is because they do not inflate their stats on tanks.
For the most part. Like, you see their rez decision making and then you sort of see why they are where they are. But at least I get healed for once.
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True, but a plat orisa vs a silver one is a lot more noticeable since it’s a lot easier to be bad at the anchor tanks than say Mercy.
I think a major problem is that Blizzard didn’t really do an MMR reset upon addition of role queue, it only took samples from what you played, meaning even though you could be a DPS main and be plat, once role queue would hit youd get Plat or Gold in all roles even though you may not be able to play to that affinity.
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While sort of true, I have to admit it deranked me relatively fast on tank and support.
In the other hand, I have other accounts where I maintain a higher rank on tank and support… While trolling.
I just do not trust the SR system, period, to be 100 with you. I have seen too much over my experimentation. Stuff that most people just write off as conspiracy that is reproducible and whatnot.
I just try to enjoy myself and hope it does not rank me too high to be the platinum elder God that I am. I can’t run those streets in diamond. My hood is in plat.
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The SR system is massively flawed due to the sheer amount of team reliance the game has now.
Back in Seasons 1-6 or so you could solo carry your way out of whatever rank you were stuck in if you were good enough. Now no matter if you’re clicking head after head, if your anchor tank is bad or healers are bad and you can’t get the objective, you’re bound to lose.
Though this was much worse during double barrier where if you didn’t have by least 1 shield tank you’d lose.
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Theres no differenc between most plats and silvers in terms of skill…Most plats are worse than most silvers…fact
There’s a clear difference otherwise those silvers would be plat.
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It’s so plats can boost their silver friends 
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Kinda funny considering most plats arent skilled enough to boost, meaning we are still gonna lose because 1 player sucks in comparison to the rest. 
I honestly agree with you =\ But unfortunately I think the queue times would take a hit if this was implemented.
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I was playing in Gold today (don’t ask why on weekend) and saw someone who was chronic Bronze (1000SR) on all roles are now in gold on support. Then I realized:
We had 4 stack.
One was Rein who was basically holding right click. No fire strike or anything.
Mercy was damage boosting the cree non stop.
Moira was healing him.
Until you realize that they were getting boosted, there’s no difference since you’re on the winning side.
Only issue comes when boosted people come into solo queue.