What does 5% means

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Okay say what you want about overbuff weather it’s “Legit” or not but I noticed a lot of people don’t knownhow to read it in one of my recent post a lot of people keep spitting out “Win rate means nothing win rate means nothing” blah blah blah without pick rate… but I posted the pick rate well for console at least thats a different subject as well.

I’m just letting yall know a 5% pick rate on overbuff with an 3% above 50% pick rate is absolute insanity.

A 6.23 kda and a 6.28 on PC is also absolute insanity (this was the last 3 months).

But yeah a pick rate at 5% literally fills the entire bar I believe it directly translates to 50% and your ONLY not played because people main and like to play other heros and everyone has there favorites.

But to not pick you would be considered low key throwing, give or take the few odd games where you do lose to other things.

But literally ANYONE could pock you right now and just absolute dominate lobbies especially with that KDA that’s waaaayyyyy higher then any other tank hands down.

You are the best of the best of the best and it’s not even a question it’s not even up for debate any word trying to justify you would be a waste of a discussion, it’s absolute criminal activity to have stats like that.

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The way Overbuff calculates pickrate is that if a hero has a 5% pickrate it means each player on a team has a 5% chance of picking said hero (keeping in mind that Overbuff was around before RQ and not updated to factor it in)

So a 5% pickrate on Overbuff translates into being about 25% (5% x 5) of games.

For reference, Moth Mercy at her peak had a pickrate of about 16%, which using the same math equates to:

16% x 6 = 96%

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See at the current moment when the bar gets allll the way full you know a heros being picked a lot like a lot a lot stacked with an upwards trend of winning.

Im not sure if theyve changed there calculations since moth meta tho.

But if you look at console top 500 (gm)

You can tell its allllll just dva, and overbuff reflects this as well at 5.71

So I don’t know if theyve changed calculations since then but you can tell there’s a direct match up between EVERY SINGLE PAGE OF TOP 500 being dva top to bottom, and overbuffs pick rate stats.

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Overbuff is not a reliable source. The day they released a dev blog speaking on the Pharah’s win rate, they said Reaper had a win rate of 55%.

I checked Overbuff to see what it was within an hour of that blog being made and… he had a 40% win rate.

That may not be sufficient enough to disprove it entirely, but a gap that big doesn’t seem like something I would be willing to trust.

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Im just trying to explain the absolutely insanity that is a 5.00 pick rate stats or above yes I get some people still dont trust overbuff cause its not a perfect site and can go down sometimes but I just want to explain what the stats actually mean.

Ohhhh I get it now 3.3+ is considered insane for PC because yall have more players to pick other things and do things that would generally lower the number, so 3.3+ would be the max for yall and for us it’s 5.

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This sentence is absolute insanity.

I haven’t looked at overbuff in a very long time (because why would I?), but when someone says a character has a 5% pick rate, that means they are picked 5% of the time.

If you are trying to say they are picked 53% of the time, say 53%. That’s the only thing I can assume you were trying to say with whatever convoluted nonsense your post was.

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See I get your trying to be toxic because you dont like me or whatever your teying to add that toxicity into your argument your trying to act all big and bad or whatever my post dosen’t make sense and blah blah blah…

Dude stop just stop this isn’t the part where you try and be the hero this isn’t the part where your “Dropping truth bombs” this isnt the part where your “Calling someone out” okay calm down there’s no war going on over here, this isn’t the part where you have so secret magical mystical knowledge no one else has and this isnt the part where going after the other person would prove well anything tbh l because well were literally just explaning statistics…

5% dosen’t just mean picked 5% of the time hell the other guy made a calculation for it based on how it previously use to work so I dont know where you even like got that from tbh.

What your saying has just straight up never been how it works.

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I don’t have anything against you, your post just literally makes no sense. I have absolutely no idea what you were trying to say.

That’s what it means to me when someone tells me that a character is picked 5% of the time. That’s what I’m trying to explain to you.

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In the context of overbuff what this post is about yes the mathmatics used is entirely different is what im trying to say.

Its not that complicated 5% pick rate in the context of overbuff (at least on console) is criminal activity.

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So, what does that actually mean for pickrate? 25% of the time?

If that’s the pickrate, just say THAT THEN

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Well then when people go to overbuff themselves and see its not 25% there gonna be confused…

You gotta actually do the calculations.

And based on what Ive gathered new overbuff calculates things differently the information I was given at the beginning of the post so Ill probably have to look more into that as well.

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Okay Ayanga, I’m gonna try and explain pickrates.

The maximum pickrate a hero can have is 20%. A 20% pickrate means both teams have X hero in every game. 10% means at least one team has X hero in every game.

So, 5% means one team has X hero in half of all games. That isn’t that high of a pickrate. X hero is seeing play, but they are not meta defining.

For context, Ana has had a pickrate above 10% for much of Ow2’s life on PC in high elo (before the season 9 changes, basically). That is an absurdly high pickrate.

But also, Overbuff is garbage. So. Context is needed when discussing their “statistics.”

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See what seems to be throwing me off is when you go to console top 500 hell its literally just all dva every single page top to bottom not even joking, so either A the way they do calculations has changed or B this is the “New” highest limit based on the influx of new players and private profiles.

Cause it works off trends that’s like where all its credibility comes from, so the “Trend” now based on avaliable data ya known within the context of ow2 where originally 16% was like the highest based on all the avaliable date, since that time period avaliable data might have been directly cut in half and this is all you can see based on what they have access to at the moment.