What is this ranking system

How in the world do people get gold/plat or higher just out of placements. I think that is super unfair. If someone wins 10/10 placements and gets bronze / silver and someone else gets plat / diamond how is that fair?

Also, another big issue I see is people saying they are so good at the game because they are plat when they only got it out of 10 placement matches. I don’t understand how this ranking stuff works…

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google “Overwatch - personal based SR”

You see placement games take performance and wins into account. For example this account I’m typing with placed diamond, even though I lost 4 placement games. Why? Because I performed so much better than all the players I was playing with and against.

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This post has almost everything you could want to know about the ranking system.

When you do placements, you are doing them in games of your skill level. Winning 10 silver games does not make you a plat/diamond player.