I have been on this planet 37 years. For the lest 14 years I have played Blizzard games. My conclusion for how Blizzard operates their skill detection device is as follows.
You do your 10 placement games and at the end there is a large handle that is pulled down. Spinning cogs eventually land in a window and whatever those cogs list is your rank. They use the ancient art of slot machine to determine your rank. If you want another go at the slot machine, just add 40 more dollars for a new account and have another pull.
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I saw (individual) diamonds playing much worse than (high) silvers. SR is not everything.
To go out of silver, you must go in premade (soloq is hell) and play good. (no feeding/throwing)
it’s never to late to change that awful mentality you have.
i don’t want to. It helps a lot
I’ve accepted that I am a plat player. Gold cannot hold me and I always seem to hit a stone wall at 2900+. All in all I am ok with it. I just wish I could get into an elo where people communicate and swap instead of just instalocking and then trying to silently guilt each other into filling and then going on vc for the first time just to call each other braindead.
You shouldn’t say things like that on the forums, people will have an aneurysm.
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Climbed from silver to diamond season 4 stayed around there till last season and have been bouncing around between silver and gold since so yeah i came back
Not true. Even in low gold when I wipe teams while playing with my silver friends… We do not win every game. Or even close. I can only boost them to low gold and I have been to diamond plenty. You have no idea how that rank actually is. You need to just skip that and have your MMR past it if you want any hope.
idk about that there’s alot of extra stuff going on there. If you by yourself are a plat player, then you should be able to get yourself back to plat. Silver and gold should not hold you. I have gone from silver to plat multiple times on different accounts. I’m a plat player.
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That’s because as you go up, you’re bringing players up that don’t deserve to be in that rank. It’s one thing to carry randos that are in the correct rank, it’s another thing to carry people who don’t belong there. I had a silver acc to play with lower ranked friends and I’ve climbed it to mid plat (my own rank) a few times by accident. I also play Mercy, so I’m over here carrying anyone.
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All I can say is that there’s probably something in your gameplay that you’ve learned that has caused you to regress. Use the replay system to find out and adjust!
I am in platinum (and have never been stuck in gold, I only briefly visited when I had a no MMR junkenstein account), I am queuing with my silver friends and playing in low gold matches where I legit cannot solo carry which is weird because I thought I was solo carrying the high gold games whenever the game put me down that low. But I learned the hard way that you do genuinely need teammates. It sounds obvious, but man is it annoying to teamwipe on your own and still lose the point.
Idk whenever I watch the higher elo healer games everybody seems to be in a rush to instalock tanks and then call out their shields and cds. If I had games like that I wouldn’t really care that I were plat. I just want my games to be enjoyable and not frustrating.
Im usually 1 of them tanks lol but even in diamond and low masters in my experience u rarely get much communication or people swapping roles for the benefit of the team. Alot of people seemed to have stopped caring
I’ve been there before (5-11 in plat, silver/low gold in s12) and it really sucks, but you can pull through. I got to plat in s16.
While you’re down there, take some time to try out different characters to widen your hero pool. I dropped D.Va and Moira for Zen and Zarya. Tanks there trickle like crazy, so if you can tank and no one else is on chat, pick one.
I mean I was just in a game where I went to rez behind the safety of the orisa shield and that stupid centaur moved it in the middle of the rez and I got killed and nobody besides moira with her tickle beam seems to care that I have a sleeping enemy in the backline ready to be shot dead. It just makes me needlessly frustrated. If stuff like this didn’t happen, I wouldn’t care if I was stuck in silver. I assumed games in diamond and masters were better.
So did i lol. when i finally hit masters and realised its pretty much the same but with more toxicity and bigger egos i kinda lost motivation to climb higher.
I personally feel like the competitive experience has slowly declined since season 4-5 and nowadays all ranked are plagued with smurfs who dont care much about losing which makes it even worse.
I will literally spam group up with me if i sleep some1 with ana but no1 ever comes 
teamchats usually empty too (on console).
