I’m M3-1 on tank. I decided to queue support. (Diamond 5-3). Eventually got to high masters after losing most of my games in Diamond. People there DO NOT react to sound. They don’t hear the flankers. They don’t turn around. They also push, use ult mindlessly and always when your team is dead. They never group up. They never wait for the team to push together. They stagger like crazy. They don’t know when to push and what to do. I’m losing my mind, insanity !.
Again, the enemy team is the same, its the entire RANK that is something else. I don’t understand why the gap between Diamond and Masters is so big, It should not be IMO. Diamond players should be decent and should know these things. I get that if you were playing bad in gold or plat. But Diamond rank shouldn’t allow people to be there with “0” volume and tunnel visioning. The rank is like top 10-15% of the player base. People there literally play the game on autopilot and they do the most oblivious mistakes. I get that people enjoy the game only but also checking their profile picture they are hard stuck diamonds and some of them tryhard and still can’t climb up. The mistakes are known to everyone yet still happening…
If someone is reading this and is in diamond, please fix your entire playstyle and start to pay attention to backline/side lines and take action. Don’t be passive. Press W when you should and not mindlessly.
The problem with this game is that there are many people who don’t deserve their rank and only got it through luck or because they were carried by good players. This happens at all ranks, and you end up stuck in a cycle with no way out.
The problem is that most players see flankers or flyers like Phara or Echo and think, “not my job”, the supps arent going to do it because they probably think its the DPSs job, the DPS don’t do it because they think its the tanks job, and the Tank isnt going to do it because thats stupid the tank is probably dealing with 3 or 4 of their team to begin with.
And this goes down all the way to bronze.
This is because they start new players to far up. If you start at the lowest rank and had to climb this wouldn’t be a problem, but Blizzard is afraid that starting players in Bronze would make new players give up sooner and lose out on their money.
First, new players initially started at an MMR value slightly below average. You can think of it in terms of skill tiers around the lower divisions of Silver. This was already below the center point of the player base’s MMR distribution, but the new player win rate was still too low. We’ve since lowered the starting MMR to a rating equivalent to Bronze 5 and instantly saw huge improvements for new players with a sub-40% win-rate.
That’s funny because I can start a new account right now and won’t be playing against and with Bronze 5 players during my first game of comp.
I don’t want a fake hidden MMR lying to me as a new account, I want to see that I’m playing with bronzes and my “trending to” within qualifiers to say Bronze 3 or 2 after I win/lose. I don’t want qualifiers at all. I just want an actual ladder experience where everyone starts in bronze and has to climb out.
Technically it is, new accounts just climb (or drop) a lot quicker. Which is a good thing, because smurfs can’t just sit in bronze forever and stomp noobs for free.
I’d rather have smurfs sitting in bronze to farm clips for their 100 subscriber YouTube channels than have players who don’t have the slightest clue about what cover is in diamond because they got boosted/carried up to it from their plat starting point by the luck of the matchmaker.
Yes, and the first game I start with when completing placements in comp generally is against gold 2- plat 5 based on looking at profiles. I never start against bronze in placements.
Accounts don’t start during placements, they start with their first match. And there, on bronze.
If you are Gold/Plat after placements, you climbed from bronze to there already.
That is incorrect. I start my placements against golds/plats. I look at their career profiles. Stop drinking the Kool-Aid and start a new account to test it out.
This is litterally a don’t hate the players, hate the game moment since this is on Blizz. Multiple streamers they sponsor do it, so why shouldn’t others. I myself don’t like to make others suffer if I’m learning a new hero and QP’s matchmaking is too unbalanced to learn them in.