Bronze player here, getting matched with Platinum players

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I’ve played a fair ammount of Starcraft and recently decided to try ranked. Got placed in Bronze so that should tell you about my skill level. So far I’ve played a total of 10 games and 8/10 of those games were vs players who were rank Platinum or higher. That’s quite unfair matchmaking and Im not sure why I am getting matched with these players. Obviously all of these games end up in a loss and kills my motivation to keep playing. I could beat a silver player, I might beat a gold player but someone who is Platinum? That is too much. Twice I’ve faced players in Masters league, is the matchmaking system a joke to blizzard? The skill difference is way too much and I feel like I gain nothing from the losses.

Is anyone else experiencing this? I like this game but I don’t really feel like playing when 80% of my games are total stomps.

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They could be REALLY bad plats or they could be playing unranked or the match maker could still be figuring out where to place you and currently thinks you’re around plat level for MMR and will need to be proven wrong through losses.

Or you’re on a low pop server/are playing at weird times where there’s nobody else playing at your skill level.

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Low population, combined with a broken unfixed ranking sistem, get used to it

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To be fair Bronze is and has always been a nightmare for new players.

I would also say that if you are playing against Platinum players your rank will probably start catch up to your rating soon enough. You will just have to keep playing until you reach a stable rank/rating.

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LMAO.
Are you serious ? Plats in bronze ? WTF are you talking about ? The reason why he faces platinum players is because Blizzard’s stupid assumption that all players are “intermediate level” hence, they start in platinum league. Players of all leagues should never play two leagues above them - bronze should play other bronze or silver at best. Gold vs gold/plat etc. Matchmaking in broken beyond repair + VERY low population (90k active players according to SC2Pulse makes ladder completely unplayable for new players.

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You’re facing platinum players because system does not know your skill level and blindly assumes you are “intermediate player” (which is dumb btw)- therefore you’re facing platinum players. I wish you all the best on your ladder journey but don’t expect any promotions soon, unless you work REALLY hard. Ladder is facing multiple problems - broken matchmaking, occasional smurfs and trolls + very low population, so for people like you it might be completely unplayable. You need super strong determination, practice and patience to play this game.

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until you played at least 20 games your placement is not final

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It’s because you’ve only recently become ranked. Generally it’s recommended for new players to leave their first 20 or so games so their MMR can stabilize. To try and explain this better for you;

MMR works fairly conservatively in order to (ideally) weed out smurfs. There’s two MMR numbers - an “Actual” MMR and a hidden “Provisional” MMR.

The first number - your “Actual” MMR, is where you are currently.

The 2nd number - your “Provisional” MMR, is where the game thinks you should be based on your wins and losses against your opponents.

Both numbers change when you win and when you lose, however your provisional MMR changes more drastically - particularly for newer players. As the two numbers get closer, your games are going to start becoming more even, more fair, and more consistent.

This generally takes on average around 25 games, but has been known to take up to 50 or so.

It’s not ideal, obviously. I’m not even sure it’s a good solution. But it’s the way the game works.

Also something to keep in mind is that Unranked MMR is different from Ranked MMR, but both work the same way.

Generally speaking, try to look back at the game and see what players do differently to you. Keep it simple. Do they make more workers than you - do they make them more consistently than you? Do they put down more production buildings than you? Do they spend money better than you do? Do they have more units than you do?

At the end of the day, your ability to spend your money effectively trumps 90% of anything else in the game because 90% of the time, more stuff beats less stuff. It doesn’t matter if you have 1 colossus if your opponent has 200 marines; the 1 colossus will still lose under the combined firepower of the marines, because the colossus is alone and doesn’t have anything else to support it.

This should never happen, though there’s been known to be a bug that pops up occasionally, that occasionally gives people the master league border even if they’re not actually masters. I don’t think that it’s a thing right now, but it was a common problem for players in bronze-gold level to randomly be awarded the masters border.

Additionally, players who’s profile say they were formerly masters players might have gotten it years ago when the game still had separate ladders for each expansion. WoL was basically dead, so it was incredibly easy to get the masters border in WoL, and it would display on your profile as your highest ever league, even if you weren’t really a masters level player.

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This tells me you have no idea what you’re talking about. Again. lol.

Unranked can be plat and play vs any rank. You can also run into people who are on massive losing streaks while you’re on a massive winning streak. There’s a few other ways that you’d see a plat in gold.

But as always, open your mouth and shove your foot in it some more.

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Do you have reading comprehension problems ? I said when NEW player enters the game they are immediately matched vs platinum players because system does not know what skill they are so it assumes they are somewhere in the middle (platinum).

Also players of any leagues can play vs lower ranked opponenents but the difference will never be more than ONE league - for example gold vs plat, plat vs diamond etc. If you are platinum with solid amount of games (your rank is already established) you will never play vs bronze player, otherwise matchmaking is broken or population is super low.

Maybe next time read carefully before you start typing your nonsense.

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I am sorry to hear that man, best thing if you have a sparring friend that will help you get at least a few dozens games.

The matchmaking has been broken for a long period, plus low population of players, and I wish I could say that things get better as you progress, well it kinda does a bit, but you will encounter also smurfs as you progress.

As long as you are having fun, I would say don’t give up.

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Yeah I’ve had just about enough of you. Time to use the mute function. You’re either trolling or you’re hopelessly crazy. Either way, nope for me! Cya in a year if you’re still around young Padawan.

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Bye, bye.
Enjoy getting bashed by smurfs and “learning from them”.
:rofl: