Every day I see more and more people on the forum who have the same problem as me. There is a serious imbalance in the matches. It is ridiculous to have both a win streak and a lose streak in a single rank. I was climbing by getting a win streak again. The number of lobotomy survivor teammates in my team was increasing rapidly after each match I won. In my last match of win streak I had Zen and Lucio as my supports. The other DPS and Lucio were feeding at full speed. In fact, DPS left the game in the middle of the match and we were left 4v5. Despite everything, I won that game too. When more came, I couldn’t stand it anymore and started losing. I just keep losing. The same cycle started again. Blizzard, there is a huge elephant in the room
What rank are you in?
Because if you’re in gold/plat then you need to just focus on yourself as you are the only constant in all of your games and you should clearly just blame yourself for every problem you have- ha ha ha just kidding.
Well, the actual reason that your matches are feeling unfair is that blizzard can rig your matches down to the exact ult charge you gain per damage dealt to rig matches against you if you haven’t spent enough money in the ingame shop- ha ha ha kidding again : )
In all seriousness, the actual reason you feel that matchmaking is so volatile is that Blizzard in their infinite wisdom re-distributed the rank curve so that a lot of players who were in bronze/silver are now in gold/plat, and some diamond players were also pushed down to gold/plat, so the game is basically unplayable in those ranks (unless you hard hard hard carry and even then you sometimes lose because the enemy realizes you’re the only good player so they hardfocus you.) because the skill difference between players is so vast that the matchmaker has trouble making balanced matches.
The match rank range could be gold 2 - gold 4, but that means the actual range pre-mmr-squish would’ve been like plat 3 - silver 3, far less reasonable than the rank range tries to present it as.
https://x.com/SrslyPaladin/status/1845964237203820585
This is a graph showing the rank distribution as of s12. You can see that a bunch of players were pushed to the middle of the bell curve, in gold/plat, to the detriment of everyone in that rank trying to climb with an old account that can’t trigger smurf protection.
I agree. The elephant is that players don’t understand how the MM works, don’t understand what it can control, and seize MM as the scapegoat-of-choice for explaining their woes.
Humans suck at being consistent, but my loss streak is an algorithm’s fault, surely!
Womp womp.
Edit: Btw OP, if your evidence to the contrary is just pointing to a couple of games, I really don’t care, don’t bother extolling how your teams sucked. I couldnt care less.
I was about to block you haha. You got me in the end of sentence.
MMR squish is one of the worst decision they have ever made. Just give it a hard full reset for one time or let it. Rank distrubition is so garbage right now