With the new season coming up, I was hoping that someone could reset or lower my MMR? I know throwing is against the TOS and I don’t want to ruin the experience of other players just to lower my own rank.
This issue is that my friends and I used to be 2600-2900 players (well, they are 28-3200) but unfortunately, 3k is where all the smurf accounts decay to when inactive, so any time I queue for a game now, I am facing a lot of players way more skilled than me, and I am unable to contribute to the team. The problem is that, sometimes I have more smurfs on my team than the enemy, so I end up winning ~50%, and I can’t get down to the rank I belong at. I’d like to play against players of similar skill level so I can actually be helpful, but I REALLY don’t want to have to throw a bunch of games to get there. Any suggestions or form I can fill out to derank without hurting other players experience?
This is not possible. Playing at a skill level less than your known capable skill level is equally a violation of the Blizzard Code-of-Conduct as that could be considering a variation of boosting at that point.
Your best option is to get your friends to gain rank. Watch their games and tutor them if you cannot group up with them and coach them until they can climb high enough to join you.
That’s actually my point. I am current playing at a skill level above where I am capable of, thus violating the code of conduct. However, because the distribution of smurf accounts at this particular MMR is so high, (3000 is where all inactive accounts decay to, so if a gm player buys a 2nd account to play with their mom, this is where they end up. There was even a graph released a few months ago that indicated a spike in the otherwise relatively smooth curve of SR distribution right at 3000.) that I am unable to normalize.
Basically I join a game and either have more ‘smurfs’ on my team, and win (since I still try my best) or the enemy does and I lose. Additionally, because this isn’t their SR, but where their accounts tend to cluster, the actual SR variance on these accounts is much higher than should be possible. All this creates the situation I described: I make no impact in most games, but the high variance in my teammates skills means I still win ~50% and can never get the rank I belong at.
I don’t want to have to buy a new account, I like my skins and my hours played on various characters feels like an accomplishment. I like playing all the other modes… I just can’t compete at the rank I am trapped at. I basically queue for a game, and watch other people have a good time (or call each other racist/sexist stuff lol) and do nothing. When I play in QP or other modes, I am queued against silver and gold and have a better competitive experience than I do playing near 3k.
No real possible way on your main account.
You could create an alt account but you said you dont want to waste more money and that would just ruin others experiences.
Sorry my dude, have no ideas.
Easy: try new “troll pick” heroes. Try to get good with the likes of Doomfist, Sym, and DPS Mercy. Once you get good with any of them, just switch. You’ll de-rank while actually trying.
if you weren’t so high id say just play with me
im a jinx & a failure. dropped 500 sr in 4 weeks.
cant do anything right.
no matter what i play i suck & come up against mcree’s that cant miss, doomfists that 1 shot everyone & genji’s that take out the whole team.
if you wanna drop get on my team. its easy
Your claims are: your impact is nothing and number of smurfs determines the outcome.
There are 5 slots for potential smurfs on your team, while there are 6 on red’s. That means on average the red team will have more smurfs than you. And it follows that they should have the advantage more often than your team. Because of that they should win more than you.
However, since you have ~50% winrate, it’s clear that you are not being a hindrance to your team or that you are a smurf whenever they have one more than you. The latter is unlikely, and also invalidates the smurf claim. That means your other claim is also wrong. You do contribute. And you are where you belong.
If I wanted to derank I would play (PS4) Widow, Hanzo, Genji… characters I have really low playtime. It’s not forbidden to play heroes which are not optimal for the fight, or where you are not really skilled in. If you play the characters you can’t play well you will derank…
Some games you will win … more you will lose… until your skill lvl on your worst characters rise…
I wouldn’t do this because I want to rise… but it’s a way…
Theoretically, play tunnel visioned on one aspect instead of looking at the whole picture.
As a support hero, just healbot.
As a tank, do little to no damage/make space but hold up your shield so it still looks like you’re “tanking”.
As DPS, get the damage and picks that don’t matter at all.
Are you still engaged in the game? Yes.
Are you doing things that bring you to the win condition? No.
Are you throwing? Arguably Yes.
Does it look like it? No.
Just do what the entire overwatch community does in ranked. Play selfishly, for fun, maybe have a few drinks, don’t ever switch, ignore team. Blizzard don’t care. Blizzard can’t tell the difference between throwing and sucking.