Hi Devs,
So I just won 5 placements matches as support, was top healer all games, was 1.8k SR last season and now I get 1.6k SR … just want to say well done on keeping trash system on.
P.S.
Could anyone tell me wtf you need to do as support to get out of silver, coz doing top heals is not counting, def objective is out of the picture, prio on keeping tanks alive is not enough, so do I have to have like 5 gold medals every game + won to move up ?!?!?!?!?!
What does this even mean? Winning games is not just about highest heal number, not to mention that certain heroes usualy even will not have that Medal. Top healer? Damn good job, but you completed with just one more person. Having more healing will say absolutly nothing about how well you played.
I agree that this is BS tho, you should not ever place lower by winning 5 placement games.
You should post replay code so we can tell you what you do wrong.
Make friends
But then you need to leave them in dust if they are not improving as you 
Lol, when you figure out that medals don’t win games you’ll climb.
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The devs don’t come to the forums anymore.
There are too many bad ideas.
Don’t count your heals, make your heals count
You have to provide more value than the opposing supports.
If you’re just heal bottling whilst enemy suuports fragging out, you’ll get the heal card, but they’ll get the win.
I climbed 800 sr in 2 seasons on Lucio after practising and learning how to duel (dropped since as not kept up with skill inflation).
Your Lucio kd and win rate is great. I’d just stick with him.
You need to pick bap and do 3-5 solo kills per 10 mins, be on fire 25-50% of time. But you need aim. Yes, this “ez” thingy would carry you up to mid diamond, if you have it.
My stats with Bap when I boost from lower elo to diamond be like 500 heals per min and 1000-1500 damage. I usually have no medals or have damage gold medal just playing agressively and manage to survive after.
Aim stats be like : 39-50 % with primary and 69-75% with healing, could variate depends on match and who you shooting at. If your primary went lower than 35 %(shooting squishies) do aim practice with these two workshops E46T9 / A9FBX untill you feel aim boost of it.
if you want to climb you have to kill your way up. its the only way to hard climb as support.
Step 1: find smurf;
Step 2: befriend them;
Step 3: pocket them to success;
Step 4: profit.
In solo your chances are really low.
Stop healbotting and make plays, that is it
honestly - they should just hide medals until the end of the game at this point.
I’m not sure there’s a bigger source of toxicity - and there’s a lot of sources of toxicity - in this game.
9 times out of 10 when someone calls out a teammate’s performance they’ll retort with the “I’ve got Gold medals” defense - when that doesn’t mean anything - oh wait it just means that of all the turds in the litter box, yours stinks the least
I wonder what +MMR is about then. If it’s about “doing whatever it takes to win”, they could use SR-only system and never need mmr to match people. Somewhere behind the scenes they are mapping his “performance” in to MMR skill rating, the only real rank used to match and move you. So if they don’t use stats for that what are they using?
The problem I see is that solving a lot of win conditions (like hitscan the pharah) will make you win the game but doesn’t leave behind a stat-carry data trail. So now you “won” but your mmr barely moves and with 50-50 matchmaking, it will basically start pulling you down or climb less fast. All the while you’re doing what the coaches say in terms of solving problems, playing around the team, and nailing out win conditions. Dumb system imo.
But it does mean something. If you stat pad, you’re mmr boosting, and the system will think you deserve to rank up, because you’re over-performing your teammates on paper. The matchmaker doesn’t care how clutch you were. And usually the more surgical your play, the less medals you get for it. If you’re Mr.Clutch over and over, yes you will win games and SR will go up, but the games will get harder and harder because the MM is convinced you need to go down (having really low mmr - the cost of not playing for stats).
This is a load of nonsense that has nothing to do with how MMR works. MMR is essentially the internal representation of your SR.
MMR is a little more volatile and if you’re in the upper ranks the 3900SR cap creates a substantial difference between MMR and SR at the start of the season… but for most people most of the time MMR and SR are the same thing.
I dunno.
I had a 10 game win streak as I neared my career high, low plat.
Bizarrely the games were super easy. But I wasn’t performing great in them stats wise.
I think the whole ladder is super chaotic and you get streaks as part of that.
Although I’ve seen other people convinced that’s how it works, so I dunno.
I already did it once bronze - plat on Mercy in one season solo queue. But I’ve since dropped back down. Playing better now than then… doesn’t make much sense I think it’s more pot luck.
At the end of the day your rank doesn’t matter. Nobody cares. Just have fun. If you’re not having fun then play something else
but that doesn’t matter, the matchmaking compares your stats to others playing the same hero at that rank, it doesn’t take into account your performance compared to your teammates whatsoever.
You have to become a famous streamer and you will climb
Maining Mercy in low ranks is extremely bad as barely has any impact on the match and no carry potential, especially since you completely rely on your team