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HansBurgers's avatar
6 years ago

Why does diamond rank even exist?

I reached Diamond IV again this season and literally every match me and my squad is matched against predators. I've fought the #1 and #2 Predators many times now and this is in a diamond lobby. There are so many predator 3 stacks in there that it just feels like a predator queue. It doesn't make any sense to play this because you don't get more points if you beat a predator and for them it's just about W-keying every squad they see. As a Diamond IV, I should be at most be playing against a Diamond I or Predator 1000-950 (maybe). It's not like I'm a bad player, I was getting many 5 kill and 2k damage matches in Plat, but there I was fighting against mostly other plats and hardly any diamonds. I know Predators only make up 0.2% of the ranked queue and that load times might be longer for them, but I feel like that should be ok if they want to play in Pred ranked lobbies and if not they can just join casual. Right now, the diamond rank feels like a filler rank, an easy way for predators to farm kills and stats.

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