When I started earlier this year, I got placed in high plat. Didn’t deserve that AT ALL. Plummeted fast. Ended up in bronze briefly. Now I’m actually getting better at the game, and I’m almost in gold. Having fun!
To place bronze or silver in your first season you have to literally throw your QP games. Walk off the map instead of pressing Q in a teamfight etc.
It’s a long time since I started playing but I first placed at exactly 2500 SR which was far too high at the time and over the next couple weeks I dropped almost to 1800 which is the lowest point I ever reached flexing practically every hero in the game.
Only then did I realize what I suck at (aiming) and focus on playing things I was more proficient at that depend more on positioning and game sense than pinpoint accuracy.
I played main tanks and Ana to practice some accuracy while still being useful and climbed back to platinum and then into diamond before the season was over.
I admit the first losing streak was some of the least fun I’ve ever had and it was caused by the system placing me higher than I deserved.
However there are positives too. You learn and improve far faster against opponents better than you.
Just play and don’t care too much about the movements of your SR, just learn from every match and every mistake.
Quick play has no effect on initial placements. Everyone starts their first game around 2350. See Initial Competitive Skill Rating, Decrypted.
Not quite the case since you can see those “bronze to gm” smurf accounts place silver/bronze by jumping off the map for 25 levels.
Well unless things have changed of course. I can’t say you’re wrong as all my info is very old.