Update:
My soldier win rate on my alt is now at 85% over a span of 30 games (i.e. my win % is still going higher and higher as I go up in SR). I am now at 2777 SR, one game away from high plat.
I’m starting to think soldier might be overtuned… it’s kind of crazy, when I hit 80% win rate on him, I didn’t think I’d be able to maintain it, but after more hours played my win rate continues to steadily go up. And I feel like I am just completely dominating my opponents with him
But it’s even MORE crazy that I can main soldier in mid-high plat with an 85% win rate on my alt, but doing placements on soldier on this account and putting up incredible stats, the game decides that I belong in silver… and then gives me a series of consecutive matches where my team is so much worse than the enemy team that I end up losing several of them, despite trying my hardest on Soldier.
If this isn’t a sign of a broken matchmaker, I just don’t know what is…
I’m going to try to push to diamond on my alt, because I like the look of that shiny badge, and it would feel nice to know that I can make it back to diamond after so much time off from the game (as I said before, I had previously reached diamond before taking a long break from this game).
Once I do that, I’ll start playing on this account again, maybe just to practice heroes that I suck with (I don’t think I have the motivation to try to hard carry my way through silver/gold again, it’s too stressful to constantly have to put the weight of the entire team on my shoulders in order to win). But it will be depressing, playing in silver again, where the skill variance is so wildly varied that it often feels like you are playing against a team of plat/diamonds while your teammates are all bronzes.
I will say once again, if you are over-performing in silver/gold it VERY much feels like the game tries to push you down by giving you the worst teammates it can find and placing you against the best players it can find on the enemy team. This VERY much made the silver/gold matches feel harder to win than in plat and made the matches not feel good to play in.