Bronze 5 is at least a 1000SR gap. If you ranked bronze 5, you’re done, you’ll never see any other number under your bronze icon or feel like you’re ever progressing or improving.
I suspect the Overwatch team chose to break down rank into 5 different leagues to make the game feel less stale, like things are moving. So now every 7 wins, you should win or lose at least 50-70 SR, and if you’re above bronze 5, you’d be very likely to see the number under your rank change every 7 wins.
But in bronze 5, you’re bound to feel stuck. You’ll never know how close you are to climbing up. You could be 1000SR away from climbing up, or you could be 1 SR away from climbing up. 50-70 don’t do much when your rank is a 1000SR gap.
It could be easily fixed by adding two other ranks below 1000SR. Maybe a wood rank and a stone rank?
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Or they could just let us see our SR directly again.
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i was silver 4 and a day after fell to bronze 5 and now its hardstuck there…i play together with a friend thats now gold 4 my never moved from bronze 5 again
any other baseless empty assumptions and speculations? no? great
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Or change bronze to break up the range. better, maybe not have Bronze 5 be 1099 points to get through.
Maybe instead divide that through the whole of bronze. Still making bronze hard to work through but at least if you are doing good you will see the rank change. This would make the bracket feel more fluid like the other ones.
B5 1099
B4 1200
B3 1300
B2 1400
B1 1499
Could be this.
B5 299
B4 598
B3 897
B2 1196
B1 1499
we first have to get a confirmation if its even this…and this is what you get from a company that isnt transparent and doesnt communicate with its players…you get tons of people so desperate to figure out whats going on that they start asuming and thinking theories up…i’m pretty sure this is a bug or an extremely poorly developed or implemented system . there is literally no reason why bronze 5 should have any depth you should first grind out to start actually ranking and not just have a flat 0 and each new 7 wins in a row can rank you up or 20 losses can push you back max to this 0. having somehow this huge “negative” SR is just a poor lazy design, and they have already admitted of their system being bugged, im pretty sure they arent even close to truly fixing it in the near future…so before you start thinking of fixes, you first have to find out whats really broken and only the developer can answer this for real
True I’m going by what the “Experts” have posted, and some of them have linked “Dev” msgs saying that the SR ranges didn’t change.
So if that is true I would suggest what I put above as a solution to the problem. It would make the mountain into hills. That being said they might want it the way it is to make people play more matches to try and get out keeping people active in the game. However its causing loads of frustration and people on both sides defending the system and calling it out.
We all know there is some kinda issue.
My problem isn’t to do with bronze 5 but I’ve won so many games in gold support and every time I’m still gold 1 I think I’ve done nearly 28 wins and still haven’t moved and I can’t even see my win rate and it says I haven’t played any games of competitive this season I’ve been playing this game like crazy lately and I can’t even see my hard work or get any rewards it really makes me feel terrible
maybe take a break from the game and play something else until or even IF its fixed? or stop caring about your rating and just play for fun…system is either broken or rigged so investing tons of time and energy into it is very unrewarding you can know this before you want to engage into it again and rethink the whole thing
Ez solution for you → Pick Mercy → Hold heal button to your tank → Get Diamond in 2 months.
If you actually can’t get out of bronze, I fear you might be suffering from a mental illness or something, not meaning to be disrespectful. But literally if you can land ONE shot out of TEN, you can actually climb to gold in 2 days.
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Bronze players generally have ~30% hitrate. The biggest mistake I see in bronze, silver, and gold is people always going MAIN. Flank routes are very rarely used. While mechanical skill plays a large role positioning and being able to think on your feet wins games… what’s really hard for low rank is doing all three at the same time. No illness required.
If you play with high mechanical skill, you will jump ranks. That is to say, if you play with a high APM and you hit a high percentage of your shots and abilities, the MMR system will recognize that. It is actually really good at detecting when someone is in a rank way below their MMR.
I checked my Lucio stats vs the Top 100 on the leader board. Only difference was total damage, healing and eliminations was higher but accuracy and total deaths was the same.
Most people assume as a support if your healing is lower your not good. People forget in Bronze many players don’t position correctly so they die to burst damage. As a support only Bap can save them and not for long after the Invulnerability protection is gone.
They also love to create what I call the firework team setup.
At the start I say group up with the tank. After the countdown is done all 4 players scatter to the opposite direction like an exploding firework never receiving a heal while shooting in the open. I have to then try to heal who’s closes to the point or team fight (not many).
I’ve won 82% of my games out of 26 and still never ranked. I’m still at 70% winrate with Lucio and still in Bronze 5. The ranking system is broken.
I no longer have access to my old stats so my theory is they broken the MMR for some old OW1 players.
There was an error that incorrectly put people in bronze 5 regardless of skill and locked them there. There was a fix that corrected this for most people a few weeks ago. But still hearing about a few people stuck there regardless of prior seasons performance.
Hopefully this will get sorted eventually.
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Don’t fall into the trap of comparing your stats to higher ranked players.
When I was Gold, I once believed deserved a higher rank (Diamond) because my stats were so good. So a friend let me play on a throwaway Diamond account. I couldn’t keep up and basically just got carried.
There’s more to ranking up then stats which can be taken out of context. For example, as a support you can easily rack up “gold” healing by healboting your tank. Meanwhile, your dps and other support keep dying because you’re not helping them.
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False , I have good statistic as a support and still stuck in B5.
Does not matter what I do , I just stay there.
Between 20-50 assist per match
7k-20k heal
Few death
1500-3000 dmg Buff
5-15 saved people per game
Not true , you wont rank by healing.
My statistic with main Mercy are high on the 10 min count and I dont rank up.
I agree completely. That was the reference I was making that stats are not what wins in lower ELO. You basically have to save your team from their stupid mistakes. So many times I had to save a beat to stop a teamwipe because I would tell them that an ULT was about to happen and they still wouldn’t adjust.
Many times I would say that a sigma would be using their ULT on a final push and to have 1 person stay back so they don’t get lifted to end overtime. NOPE. Everyone was on the cart so we lost.
Other times I would ask the Kiriko to save her inv bomb for that ULT. Nope they use it to save a genji who was 1 v 4 the whole team.
How many comp games have you won?
I have won 105 on my main account and my climb has slowed greatly… but continues…
They really want you to grind in this game.
Re-read that. I said you can rack up gold healing, not rank up to Gold lol.
But you are absolutely right: healboting isn’t effective for climbing.
I think he’s over-exaggerating about reaching diamond, but platinum is definitely possible by swapping to mercy and just left-clicking people who need heals, and by teleporting to your teammates when in danger. I mean… she’s pretty simple. No rocket science involved.