The new player placement system is outdated and flawed

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The placement system puts new players in a certain part of the ladder in order to put players in a more suited rank.

But this has flaws and causes problems:

Flaws and causes:

  • You can be boosted or held back by how many experienced players you have in your team.
  • The system does not account for portrait rank (experience) so you can have games where their are silver portraits vs bronze where the games are unbalanced.
  • Once you have done your placements you develop experience of your own, all while still potentially being carried because the system does not account for experience.
  • After you may face players who have more experience than yourself and think they are smurfing when they just have experienced mechanical skill.
  • Then you may face players who have less experience than yourself thinking they are bad or teammates who appear to throw when they dont know the game as well.
  • Once you climb to around Plat you would have decent mechanical skill but so many teamwork flaws because everyone is aiming to improve themselves over actual teamwork.
  • You comp matches would be all over the place in terms of what players you and the enemy get and its not equal chances (50/50) like players think, for both teams its unbiasedly random.
  • The placement system is outdated because the skill curve requirement in OW has changed since then giving new inexperienced players a bigger rank boost or held back.
  • The amount of placement matches required is too low, if you speak to anyone climbing mid ladder, it would take A LOT more games the climb a certain range of SR.

To over come . . . ^ this.
You would A; need to have the experience of a player many ranks above your own which is unrealistic because no one has that kind of experience outside of OW and its not something that can be learned in the rank your in.

B; 6 stack with a decent team able to work together to improve so your team’s skill and experience is consistent.
https://i.imgur.com/kfgpyhu.png

C; Inhuman hours of grinding and luck.

This is the state OW comp in lower ranks. . .

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