After all, matchmaking refers to MMR, right?
Does it make sense to reset the apparent rank?
It means everyone in competitive loses their rank and starts again from scratch. So if you pushed yourself all the way up to Champion last year, when the rank reset happens, you will no longer be Champion and will have to earn your way back up there again.
Recently the soft resets theyve done two times now have been sort of âsquishesâ
Everyone is pushed or squished towards the middle mmr (gold).
But yes, it is a mmr and visual rank soft reset.
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Unless they are changing it. Itâs a soft reset meaning youâll still be playing people of your rank if you play on day 1.
I personally hate soft resets because itâs just an artificial way to make you climb which ow seems keen on because Iâm going to be playing 50+ games to see my rank icon.
Irocally if you play are the end of the season itâll take less time as youâll play people of a lower rank and get calibration to your rank.
WellâŚ
Basically this ^. It just puts everyone closer together, so you can re-âearnâ your way up or down.
No, itâs a full rank reset, just like with Season 9.
Everyone starts fresh; theyâll do placement matches as if they just started playing competitive on a new account and theyâll have to work their way back up to where they were.
Do you have a citation for this? I donât think it is (and I donât think they even did that in season 9?)
nah they havent ever done a full reset. they all have been âsoftâ resets at most.
it is more of a squish of ranks.
https://x.com/SrslyPaladin/status/1755775249478824431
Biggest question on everyoneâs mind is the âRank Resetâ
This is a âsofterâ reset. Your MMRs in Season 9 will start out lower. The higher your MMR, the further down you will start.
That was at around season 9 and the last reset was the same.
Theyâll also supposedly will redistribute ranks again to some degree, especially the top ranks. To have more % of people in them.
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I might be misunderstanding but it seems like youâre differentiating between your MMR and the rank that appears on your profile? These are actually the same. OW used to have a separate SR and MMR but they were combined a while ago. The rank on your profile represents your MMR.
Since this is about OverwatchâŚit means nothingâŚYou just donât see your rank anymore to pretend there was a reset âŚafter a few games everyone is where he was before
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So why does matchmaking take so long?
If MMR and apparent rank are the same, why not just match players of the same rank?
âŚthatâsâŚwhatâŚtheyâŚdo.
How long do your matches take to start? Mine are usually about 2.5-3 minutes, sometimes much quicker. The reason it even takes THAT long is because of RQ.
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Season 9 wasnât a full rank reset. I donât need to ask for a citation for this because i know that.
They have valid reasoning for but i personally dislike it.
No, but they still do it 
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I was asking about the new season, since that was the claimâŚbut, okay.
I donât think they gonna remove all those rank history on your profile.
Itâs just reset your MMR, and you will be back to the same spot within 5-6 games.
So⌠hahaha
Reply wasnât at you .
âŚbut I was the one that asked for a citationâŚokay buddy whatever, rofl.
Which is the biggest s___ fest. Why try hard when you will be close to where you were?
This is how most people think the MM works, but thatâs not actually the case.
Match qualityâensuring players of similar MMR are matchedâis secondary, even in ranked. The top priority is always faster queues, including for stacks with large skill disparities, which is why the wide pool system was introduced.
Many believe that the MM for comp and QP are fundamentally different, but theyâre nearly identical. The only distinction is that QP has a lower tolerance for constraints, while comp holds out slightly longer. In other words, comp MM will wait a few more minutes before discarding MMR restrictions and resorting to a wide match.
So no, most of the time, you are not playing with people of similar skill, even in comp. The only thing thatâs actually similar (and by similar, I mean within the 40-60% range) is the total MMR of each team. Individual MMRs, however, canâand often doâvary significantly.