I just lost my diamond 4 rank and was put back in plat because of this. Every game I was in I was the only diamond player on my team where everyone else was either gold, silver and if I was a lucky maybe one plat.
getting my rank dropped from diamond all the way to plat 3 because of this BS matchmaking system is the final straw for me and especially this op queue rank bs where running 3 to 4 tanks is the more instead of locking it at 2 tank per team
I understand its to play whoever you want but its ranked game that affect your sr and overall rank not unranked. so why is there something to keep it to where your not playing against a road hog, ram, zarya, and a sigma and calling that fun.
but the main gripe is the matchmaking last season was my first time playing overwatch competitive and I made it to diamond 4 cool. I had overwatch one but didn’t play rank
so why is it the responsibility of the higher rank players to help other nowhere near there skill level. I even seen a master and top 500 on a team full of silver and gold players and get destroyed this crap is out of control.
at this point till they balance the matchmaking im done and I know im not the only one feeling this way you can say git gun or whatever you want but we all knows total bs and its more work then fun to play comp
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I have similar experience. I’m low plat and hover around g1-p4 and it took me 80+ games just to get back to my rank after the seasonal rank reset. Now I’m having the most miserable games…
Just had a game where my teammates were grouped and 2 of them had open profiles and they were BRONZE!!! - including bronze tank who clearly had no idea how to play tank role at all. Also our Mercy had slightly more healing than me as a Soldier. The game was a total disaster.
I reported them for gameplay sabotage, quit OW and uninstalled the game. Can’t stand this bs any longer 
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glad its not me tripping I honestly thought maybe im not playing good but I had matches with 35 plus kills and lost or 25 000 plus healing and still lost I lie to you not my second to last match today was with a nothing but silver and my tank Sarha had 0 kills by the end of the match
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Yes any rank like that . Everytime I get win streak I am match with people in placement or bronze 5 and you are suppose to carry them even if you are support. It s been a month I try to climb. I was bugged bronze 5. And they didn’t even make me do placement match. I am suffering in bronze . My win rate ias not that bad bud even winning a match is pain in a ash. Most game people, have no clue what they are doing. Spawn ,run and die.
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You mean you don’t like your new vanity rank? Blizz was just worried you would get bored in diamond 4 because once you peak and flatten out they are worried you might give on on OW because you aren’t climbing : (
So they give you a really happy fun time vanity rank, anywhere from 500 to 1000 SR lower than your real rank… or is it? IDK, that isn’t for us to know : )
Isn’t this fun? Now whether you lose a bunch of games, or even if you win a bunch of games, it won’t matter! because blizz has plenty of fake vanity rank room to work with to pretend give you promotions !
Real life example : I have been plateaued at 2800-2900 SR for the last 4 or 5 seasons. I’m cool with that, I came up from literally like 800 SR years ago so its good for me. anyways last season I placed plat 2, peak plat 1. THIS SEASON after winning my 7 placements, i was put in gold 5 lol.
Sooo… look we all know my SR didn’t go away over night. I ended up playing about 180 total games with i think 85 wins. Thats slightly less than 50% win rate.
Guess what? I GAINED my rank back up to plat 2!.
So the system works! Even if you lose blizz can make you feel good and show you promotions! aren’t you so excited you can pretend you are getting better every season?
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Your MMR doesn’t match your SR. The game is pitting you against (and matching you with) those players because it sees you as playing at that level. This is also why you’re starting to drop rank. Your MMR is likely being adjusted down, so you will get more matches in that MMR range.
“Rank” doesn’t always match MMR. Rank is functionally useless and nothing but window dressing for clout.
Your MMR, which may not match your visible rank, is your “true” (read: actual) rank, and the matchmaker matches you with and against players based on your MMR, not your “SR Rank.”
I get that but when im seeing top 500 in my matches and master and grandmaster going thru the same thing something aint adding up
hey man. you’re clearly doing too well and winning your games in diamond 4. so you’ll have to prove yourself that you can carry 4 silver and gold players on your back to get to diamond 3. because that’s super logical.
/sarcasm
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Not true , Blizzard Dev post tell us the game is balanced with team total rating.
You can have a high SR/MMR player in a lobby with 4 new people vs a team of less new player. Matchmaking see both team as balanced because they got the same total MMR.
Matchmaking is bad , which equal to people not having their propper rank. Which mean the matchmaking get worse due to wrong rank with high elo player stuck in liw Elo match. This is a cascading effect / snowball effect.
One game you fight a team of Gandhi then the next its like your fighting the Avengers from Marvel.
If matchmaking was working, the strenght and skill of your opponent would be stable. Its not the case as of now.
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Here’s your answer.
Im not saying that the matchmaker is good at the moment, but if it’s your first time playing rank then usually you get placed higher than actually are (don’t ask me why). Now you’re getting to the rank you belong at and will most likely even out. When I started competitive, I was placed Plat and dropped down to high silver since I clearly didn’t belong in Plat.
Keep on going! You’ll get back to diamond again eventually 
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Omg is this why I can’t rank up as support
I’m bronz 4 and got paired up with diamond players regularly. Even after an excessive lose streak. There are like 1 in 10 games what I can feel easy wins, 2-3 are winnable, but a really big struggle. The remaining 6-7 games are completely unwinnable. The enemy outclasses me massively. And I get very bad teammates on top of that.
At the same time I feel like I play really well. Very much out of my league. I think I belong to gold AT LEAST. But I’m forced to play versus diamond players so I’m not even allowed to climb out of bronze.
“new player”?
The problem with it, at least half of them are smurfs, having fun on their new free accs
Not really since ow2 is still fairly new. Most new accounts are probably legit. But the funny thing is, and largely because of Blizzard’s incompetence accelerating the process, it is starting to now trend in the direction of less new players and more smurfs. So it seems that Blizz will finally be starting new accounts in bronze just in time for the smurf infestation.
Same issue but reverse. I’ve been screenshotting every comp match I get in and literally every single one has at least one player with “Diamond Challenger” or “Master Challenger” title… I’m Gold 4.
Sad part is I still have an 80% winrate so far, no idea how that works.
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I’m playing vs. mostly diamonds as well. I’ve seen the occasional master or gm challengers too. I’m winning about 50% of my games but staying stuck in plat 3. It’s not my KD either because it’s over 3 on ball and over 4 on sig. So I wonder what it takes to get to the same rank as all the other players in my games. Do I need to buy a skin?
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Im sure someone sitting at the board of blizz is happy with that. Took you roughly 90 hours (30 minutes per game including queue) to get back exactly to the point you were last season.
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For the sake of the community. Buy a skin and let us know what happens haha
I bet you would level up.
Just kidding. Use your $20 somewhere more useful.
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They should get rid of that crappy MMR system. It’s horrible, everyone hates it. Just make matches based on rank. In fact, MMR but limited to Rank might even work, but even then the MMR literally ruins the game.
They’re hell bent on using it for some reason. Probably spent millions trying to control the matches and manipulate the players. Who would have guessed that would backfire.
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I feel you man. I am done with this game as well. Horrible matchmaking.
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