Broken ahh rank system (initiate 2 glitch)

[Southpa]

Once again I am making another thread regarding this broken rank system. With all due respect, how will you be able to collect fully accurate data if there is a large chunk of the fanbase stuck at a rank they don't belong in? How do you condemn smurfing when people with 200+ hours and high skill are stuck playing in initiate? or being forced to make new accounts so their rank can even BUDGE? Me and many many others have a very frustrating bug of which our accounts our stuck in initiate 2, despite having stats that say otherwise. I've heard people yapping about "if you are stuck in initiate 2 and still losing you belong there." There is a difference between the team against you being good and the team with you being actual garbage to the point they are actively feeding. You can carry as much as you can, but there are games you won't win. That being said, no one fully understands the rank system yet, but some people say getting MVP and key player affect it. How is it that when I play with my ritualist and arcanist friends (who have way lower stats than me), I manage to get MVP or key player 95% of the time? That is enough evidence that I do not belong in initiate 2. Not to mention that people with initiate skill level are reaching high ahh ranks without good reason (they have admitted this themselves).

My other thread has been trending for weeks now among Yoshi's posts since I've posted it and I am sure that the developers have seen it, yet they have not commented on it or acknowledged it. I have a lot of respect for this game and valve, but this is such a ridiculous bug that causes a huge imbalance in matchmaking and i'm sure affects the accuracy of the stats they collect. I also am not sure about this whole "your rank refreshes every week," claim. if the rank was remotely being refreshed or reset, maybe we'd see an actual change. Yoshi or really anyone, I plead with you to check this glitch. I don't mind it most of the time, but it's still frustratingly broken and I am sure players in the same position as me are so over this.

Here is my statlocker for reference, check at my performance analysis, i am literally playing at the skill level of ritualist in some matches yet the actual rank of the lobby is initiate or seeker (only when playing with friends). I know statlocker is not always 100% accurate and should be taken with a grain of salt, but it is the closest thing I have to any correct and detailed statistics. And I am not claiming to be this amazing deadlock player who should be the highest rank, bro put me in rank initiate 3 or 4 for all I care, JUST HAVE THIS RANK CHANGE IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM. Please reply or like if you have this issue so that we can be acknowledged.

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[winnerflow271]

git gut

 

[patron.10]

If I take what I see on your stats Tracker then:
1. You are Seeker VI
2. Your matches are Initiate and Seeker
3. 48.42% Win rate

You are certainly better then Initiate and right now you are rising and getting to Seeker, but skipping to Ritualist would would be too much.

Just Play and get better you will rise naturally

 

[Ragnaman]

Part of me believes that Valve is unironically pulling a Cave Johnson on all of us. They have split people into "control groups" and we are just test subjects.

Every group having a status report on
"mental stability degradation ratio: 14%"
"cortisol spike resonant cascade occurence: 0.34"


(part of me wishes this to be true lmfao)

 

[olekspa]

Bro give me your account, I guarantee you, 100% I will not lose a single game unless my whole team just DC.

You just pick uber farmers and outscale anyone. Like I would just spam Warden personally and probably not lose a single game until about Archon.

People in Initiate don't know how to farm properly if you are not $30K+ in every game you might belong there for real.

 

[patron.10]

Part of me believes that Valve is unironically pulling a Cave Johnson on all of us. They have split people into "control groups" and we are just test subjects.

Every group having a status report on
"mental stability degradation ratio: 14%"
"cortisol spike resonant cascade occurence: 0.34"


(part of me wishes this to be true lmfao)

*Wins 3 matches in a row*

Mental stability regenerating.....

Devs: Fuck! What do we do?

Yoshi: Throw him in a mach against Eternus team with 5 initiates disguised Oracles.

Yoshi: Oh yeah, and dont stop doing that until that stability hits 0.

 

[Snowyy]

If I take what I see on your stats Tracker then:
1. You are Seeker VI
2. Your matches are Initiate and Seeker
3. 48.42% Win rate

You are certainly better then Initiate and right now you are rising and getting to Seeker, but skipping to Ritualist would would be too much.

Just Play and get better you will rise naturally

so here's the thing... initiate is EXTREMELY bad, like bottom of the barrel bad, ive done what everyone else has done and made a new account to get a bettter rank, im performing at a skill level anywhere between oracle and ascendant (making the gap wider cause a lot of bad players are in these ranks...) that account reached eternus 1... its so much easier to do better when your team communicates and isnt dog shit...

but when i go back to my main, i perform terribly because of a few factors

solo queue gets matched AGAINST groups all the time with maybe 1 duo on your side

initiate players do not build counter items

initiate players feed like a bitch (we're talking over 20 deaths per games at times IF it even goes on long enough)

initiate ranks get matched against smurfs and people duoing with a lower rank to get lower rank matches (Why is that even a thing???)

so yea... its matchmaking being ass, people being rewarded for smurfing and the fact that it also takes more and more games to rank up as your amount of games played goes up. so even if i did get better, i lose 1, im back down 2x as much as i gain from winning (i rarely lose even with all that now tho... its also no longer glitched in initiate 2 (negative MMR glitch as far as i can gather), its initiate 5 rn, but its still not worth using that account unless its with my friend who's new to the game.