MatchID: 54882776
TLDR: I'm an alchemist 2 who went up against a phantom.
I'm new to the game. As of writing this, I've only played for 21 hours, have 29 matches under my belt, and I'm at Alchemist 1. I messed around with heroes for a bit and have decided to stick with Mirage, Sinclair, and The Doorman. Mirage and The Doorman have lowest relative to skill rating, while Sinclair has low relative to skill rating.
I play mostly Overwatch 2 and Apex Legends, so gunplay and ability-wise I'm okay with. I'm clueless on the upgrade system though as Overwatch and Apex both only have perks and aren't nearly as complex as Deadlock is with upgrades (I don't play overwatch stadium).
The only experience I've had with this objective type of game is I played LoL for like less than a week back in 2021, so I'm just barely getting into the concepts of lanes, soul management, etc. All this to say I recently had a bad match.
I got into a game and long story short, we got absolutely wrecked. I started on green lane and was against Warden. After my third death from him I ask to swap lanes because they are harassing me. No one replies so I just keep playing green lane. After my sixth death from him, I finally just stop going to green lane because I'm honestly raging at this point.
I calm down and just play, keeping an eye on his souls. He always had more than everyone in the match. Like at least 5k more minimum, even his teammates.
At 20:40, I ask Warden, "hey 28k guy, can I ask what rank you are?"
"was phantom over the summer"
*I check to see what rank that is* "tell me why you're in my lobby then when I literally only started like 2 days ago. I'm Alchemist 2"
"rank decay is a shit mechanic".
Then after a little while the healing girl support whoever she is said, "from yoshis words he said rank was gonna be better after this update".
I've seen people on reddit and in the game complaining about matchmaking before. I never thought anything about it and didn't feel like it was a problem until this last match. It made me start thinking about all the games I've played. For a good chunk of the games I won, it felt like I was being hard carried. For the games I lost, they were still fun, but they definitely felt more challenging than the games I won.
How many games have I had where probably everyone else has hundreds or thousands of more hours than me? Why is an alchemist being matched up with a phantom? That's like a bronze going up against a pred. I can understand with it being an invite-only game that less people might be on, but I feel like that should be unacceptable.
