The Tale of Funny Accounts

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Yes, The SR system is very inaccurate. Those that read this will understand, no need for me to elaborate.

Here is a funny story for you!!

Bought game one month after launch, YAY fun! Practiced hours in the range to learn each Hero. YAY Success. Played in quick play to hone my now uber skills! YAY I become a Mercy Goddess of Healing Main! YAY Saving the DPS/Tank (*&^%'s with a single rez! YAY. I’m freaking awesome!!! I go comp mode and land middle of the road season 1 I’m happy! Comp changes and I do not play it, I’m having fun in QP.

A year goes by and my wife wants to play with me! YAY… buy her the game. She does none of the above except play Mercy and has never played on PC before… mouse and keyboard are foreign objects to her. I watch her press only W and Spacebar playing as Mercy… I play with her although I’m level 300ish. We have fun and lose many many games. but we do win some…there went my MMR!!! WOOT!!

3 months later…Wife decides to go play comp solo… and I do the same. She places 500 SR above me! YAY LOL. Wife plays more than I do and drops 500SR in a season.

Season 9 or 10, I ask silver level friends to help me get a good rank, 6 stack we go into the brawl…I leave with a less than 1000 SR, wife is still now 500 above me…LOL we played with the same people!!!

I decide to play QP for the next 5 seasons(10-14) still honing my skills as a lethal dps and life-saver. I’m a bad dude on any map on any hero in QP. I go play comp and get my placements in for season 15…because you know… I can really bring it now that I have been practicing in custom games doing head-shots, and learning strategy and all…I still rank 1056. I feel I’m at least high silver so I compare my career stats against my friends in gold and above and mine are better??? YES!

All my averages per 10 minutes are actually better! So I’m really confused now.
I double down on my idea and place my alt account that was in silver 2 seasons ago…I had worse stats per 10 minutes and YES I placed in 1389 with less wins!
My account with less wins and worse stats placed higher.

So, what we have here is a system that needs to be reset each season, period. People at lower ranks, at least some I have been in game with have said.“ummm sorry I can’t play that hero”… while taking a big hit off of something they are smoking. most are not even in the voice chat, and seem to only be playing for themselves. It’s near impossible to get out of the pit at this level.

I love a good game and it’s GG all around if I feel everyone is trying.

Please, please fix this system, you know it’s a flawed system. Re-set stats or change it to a hero based level that is more accurate.

Peace to all!!

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So start playing comp and get easy sr?
Also remember your gold friends have stats based on fighting golds.
You’re fighting people that walk in straight lines or stand still when shooting.

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Is your wife just sticking to one or two heroes?

Because it’s better to hone your game on one hero, rather than play all of them.

In the long term you want to learn more, but it’s easier to learn and improve this way

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There is that for sure, if you switch much it definitely hurts you. I try to do it as a little as possible, even though theoretically it should help to win, it doesn’t it just then says "oh you sucked that round " and you get hit, and people wonder why one-tricking is the thing and people don’t flex.

An SR reset should be mandatory each season… no one told me how screwed up this was, and let me do initial placements for a couple matches from hotel room where I had a bad connection… my game was terrible, and to this day the SR impact haunts my account… It was frankly easier to just start a new account for placement when at home and voila instantly two tiers higher. NVM my main account how has like 1200 levels on it and all the skins… it would take dozens of hours to grind it up… no point in placements at all really.

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Unneeded.
Went 10-0 in placements and gained about 530sr.
Improve enough and you gain a lot of sr lmao.

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You can LMAO all you want, and I hear anecdotes about it, but either make placements mean something or get rid of them.

LMAO… please… what’s wrong with you?

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If you want help I suggest posting a video of a typical game, close win or loss.

I’ve submitted some vids on here and they’ve really helped. After every game, win or loss, I think what I could do better next time.

As to stats per tier, a GM dps might be 3-1 kd in GM, but would likely go 90-0 in bronze. I’m a crap Widow maker and I managed a quad headshot POTG with her once in bronze. People just stood there as they dropped…

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They do mean something…
…if you improved
Last season I gained 250sr o3o

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So tell you what.

Of course it’s possible, given luck and likely a change in what you play and how low you start.

You think you did something miraculous, but you didn’t, and many experienced and good players will tell you that there is an anchor after your first placements, unless you really placed low.

I have 3 accounts, the first placed poorly due to circumstances (being in a hotel with bad connection) while another account, I placed literally two tiers higher… the first is perpetually difficult to get SR on, the second, so much easier even playing the same. There is a problem with the SR system, I don’t care what you experienced… even streamers are in accordance that an SR reboot should happen each season.

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Season 13 I played Ana and ended 3000
Season 14 placements I played Ana, Lucio and Zen and placed 3250
how ‘low’. Its higher than my current sr lmao.

Also you placing poorly doesn’t change you from stopping being lazy and playing the game.
You’re not supposed to get t500 from just doing placements each season, you climb by playing competitive doing the season.
Expecting to be handed a shiny new rank from 10 matches is insane and honestly stupid.

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Did you ever think you didn’t improve as much as you think you did :thinking:

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When I’m married I hope I can still type ‘lmao.’
Oh right, Comp tip, die less because it will improve your SR and you’ll be back with your wife.

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Don’t feel bad. I’ve been swinging between plat and diamond since season 2 and I still have an account that can’t get out of silver.

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Yes, yes I did think that. With everything I have learned so far, Strategy…being able to aim better, better accuracy, being more situational aware and really doing my best to stay alive and win…yes If you knew what I have done to improve…

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Theres a lot more than what you’d think. I spent a lot of time in platinum working on just that, and it wasn’t enough. Because that’s not it. It’s unfortunate but it probably wasn’t enough

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thanks for the reply’s…I’m going to just keep at it like everyone else because I do love the game. I’m not a super player by any means but I do have the skill, it’s just not correctly reflected in the matches I get placed in. Rather the other players are low skill because of reasons I’m unaware of. I know what I’m capable of.

I know the developers understand this, and a bunch of you all do as well.

Good point on playing a single hero…as much as possible I guess…I’ll try that tonight.

I will do my best to keep ranking up during the season and see what happens.

QP has been my practice and testing ground and I have seriously improved over the last 5 seasons, just not in Comp. Darn MMR…

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It’s weird, but it could be that you don’t know what you are doing wrong. When I was in diamond, the biggest thing I kept on saying I need to work on was my positioning. After doing some review with my GM friends, I found out it was my ability usage. Self review can only get so far, if you can have someone else look, there may be something you aren’t aware is there.

If you really wanna learn, do some vod reviews

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always report those that say sorry can’t play “x” hero

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+1 for sharing that love with your wife
(my 2 children love the game and something we have in common to talk about)

i wish i can get my wife to play. The children as well. Unfortunately, she gets dizzy and nauseous playing 3D games in a first person perspective.
By playing more than you, your wife actually proves the point which many Competitive Mode veterans have made, which is that, after the initial placement score, given time i.e. enough games; the player would level out at his/her actual skill level, be it an increase; decrease or plateau. So your wife’s true skill level probably is 500 SR points lower than her initial placement.

It depends on her performance versus other players of the same Tier, in this case, Silver and maybe Bronze. If she was outperforming majority of players, she would receive a higher Player Based Skill Rating (PBSR) than yourself, who may be performing at comparable levels.

Also, if she was playing Mercy in Season 9 / 10 and in a stack / group with you. The advantage actually goes to her because all of you would be likely more co-ordinated than the typical Bronze / Silver tier-ed players and likely peel for her so she dies a lot less and can just focus on healing.

You need to compare versus your Tier. The stats will definitely vary if you ever play in a game ranked above your actual tier.

A good site which one of the forumers, Gazzor, recommended is OmnicMeta to see how you stack up:

https://www.omnicmeta.com/

I also use Overbuff as well: https://www.overbuff.com/

Some others use OverSumo: https://oversumo.com/

Was it with different characters?
Also, again, i need to stress that initial placements can be misleading and given time i.e. enough games, you would reach where your actual skill level is at.

As some have mentioned, focus on 2-3 characters and avoid flexing in game unless you absolutely have to because that affects the PBSR (may also be another reason why your wife has a high score than you, if you flex a lot in game).

End of the day, game on, my dude.
Having fun is the most important thing at the end of the day =)

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+1 for loving the game and being positive

Solo queue to play. Sometimes, playing in a group can work against you, especially in Bronze / Silver tiers.

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