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Palette24carats
Seasoned Ace
3 months ago

Why is rank skill so variable?

Playing rank solo was fun for 3 weeks even when playing in Pred lobbies because I had good teammates in those lobbies. So I reached Plat 1 and a half and then week 4 went down to Plat 2 and a half , I keep getting bad teammates that throw the game one way or another, that dont even show up to shoot an opponent doing a rez on one I downed. So we keep getting crushed. What happened? I heard other players also are having the same experience these last days. 

Not only do I get those bad teammates but I also continue to play against DIamond 2, 3 , 4 players and even Preds. Another game tonight my randoms were Gold and Plat we got rolled three times by the same full stack Pred team because our idiot random didnt listen to me telling him not to respawn us very close to Pred team that killed us. He still did it just like a total noob. Then another Pred team came and finished it all.

Anybody have an explanation to this? It is really really frustrating.

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  • Hard to say, but I think one factor is that the current meta from supporter buffs is making for much more forgiving games.

    I've seen some people share their own stats on twitter and it seems like they're able to limp all the way up to masters just by playing Lifeline for long enough. Without any hard counters (ex. EMP/Wrecking Ball) to all the shields that permit fast revives you have to rely on the soft counter of being fast and aggressively forcing a fight -- which only higher tier players are wont to do. 

    Per my own (ranked) experience, I've got significantly more knocks, assists, revives and top 5s because there's shields everywhere and fights last so long you are almost guaranteed a reset. Even a bad player will be able to rise in the ranks when they have breathing room to heal up constantly, doubly so if they play a supporter themselves and can comfortably subsist on cells/syringes.

  • Palette24carats's avatar
    Palette24carats
    Seasoned Ace
    3 months ago
    @6572e6696bdb1dc9 I don't see that kind of player I would since I play solo queue. I think it's such a waste of time of hiding 18 minutes for 30 placement points. What I see is players dying early to -35, -40, -45.
  • Ranked matchmaking is rigged !!! Based on my experience, everything depends on the lvl or kills, based on that you will get noobish team mates or not. when I play ranked, 

    and I have about 8k kills on my score, I get 90% noobs who will not survive 5 minutes. When I play with my noob account with 50 kills, it is the other way around and I have at least 1 pro player in my team. You have to play with friends then you have a chance to rule, forget the randoms when you play with a high lvl account.  

  • Palette24carats's avatar
    Palette24carats
    Seasoned Ace
    3 months ago
    @whatsthefakk Well it did work very well with randoms for a whole 3 weeks, reached Platinum 1 at 300 points from Diamond. I had a night with 4 wins. Then it all crumbled. Now it has been a whole week of only bad games, losing over 1000 points, the games I am positive is because my teammates are much better than me and opponents shred me I don't have a chance even tough they are plat 4 they are often better than a Diamond 4 or even 3. This makes no sense, rank becomes a joke at this point. So sick of it about to stop playing I am down to Plat 3 and others did same .
  • Palette24carats's avatar
    Palette24carats
    Seasoned Ace
    3 months ago
    @6572e6696bdb1dc9 I remember seasons where Diamonds would dominate Plat lobbies. Now for a week it is not only me having problems, my Diamond random teammates used to dominate, now they die in the first fight against Plat and Gold players. This seems like a clear Rank Smurfing problem. Guess what happens after 3 weeks of grind? Most Diamond and Master players don't see any point in ranking with randoms anymore... so they hop on their smurfs and do the Itzztimmy bronze to master all over again.
    I don't enjoy killing lower skilled players, it feels meritless , but seems most high elo players enjoy it. Must be some kind of narcissism from the top 1%.

    Even Preds don't get challenged except that one fight against another Pred team that happens once a game or every 2 games.
  • RockDokRock's avatar
    RockDokRock
    Seasoned Ace
    3 months ago

    @6572e6696bdb1dc9Disagree. Lifeline's circular shield is just a basketball hoop for grenades.  Caustic's gas grenade works well there too.  They quickly get the message.

  • @Palette24caratsi have an educated guess, just look on YT what is being discussed in other popular games atm.
    Relic Mastiff center mass hit : 36dmg, where others get 192dmg ...

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