Smaller bracket on SR between ranks?

Competitive Discussion
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I play mostly on tank and support and average mid-diamond (and have been in and out right at masters). On occasion I’ll run into teams where groups I queue with have gold or low-level plat teammates with their friends that are high and when I look at their stats/SR, they’re usually hardstuck in their rank season over season. I don’t really fault the lower-level players (some just don’t hang as well as others) as much as I fault the system. My understanding is the SR is averaged when queuing up as a group.

I know there’s a 500 SR max difference after you hit masters when queuing with people. Should it not be considering extending that to lower ranks as well? The issue that I’m finding is that game sense as well as game play both overwhelms the lower level player as it will oblige them to play in a higher elo than they’re used to. For players that are in the higher rank, will lose more SR. I feel like it would be an advantage for many to decrease the SR bracket between all ranks to further improve matches.

I should add, this is more of an issue if I solo/duo queue vs. utilizing LFG for an entire team. I usually don’t have many problems when I’m part of a six-stack. I’m also wondering if it would help combat any kind of smurfing/throwing as well.

Was there a specific reason Blizz made the brackets wider in lower ranks? What are you guys’ thoughts here?

2

Yes please 1000 times. If i have to play another game with a diamond dps on one team and a silver dps on the other i might start projectile vomiting pachimari’s all over my keyboard.

3

I think the reason why this is happening is because of the damage queue times. They are, as we all know, ridiculous. Pulling Tanks asap from further ranks will put damage queuers in matches faster. I don’t necessarily agree with it but they’re desperate to decrease queue times and with this level of pressure I don’t blame them!

4

TBH they should probably just make tanking and support feel more rewarding. It’s almost like ppl hate getting punched into walls, frozen and, instantly 1 shot and steam rolled every single game while ppl complain about your healing and tanking.

I mean think about it. It’s not like there are alot of tank and support smurfs out there. Wonder why.

5

While I do think the implementation of role queue has made it worse, it was still an issue I was running into prior to it being in the game.

6

I thought everyone was a blank slate besides SR before role queue?

7

How do you mean? The SR difference could still exist within groups. (i.e. A gold could still join me in a diamond group as long as it was within the 1000pt difference)