Played better than a Seeker IV, I'm Initiate IV.

[donbasura]

Explain this.
Match ID 27020748. MMR is so broken at this moment.

 

[Geneva]

The amount of players between Seeker IV and Initiate IV makes up about 5% of the entire playerbase of ranked, and both are above the 90th percentile of all players. The difference in the average skill of players from one rank to another is negligible outside of Eternus.

What you are going through is what nearly every single person who's played a competitive online video game has gone through. If ranks matter to you, the only way anyone has ever consistently been able to climb the ladder is by improving themselves. Sometimes you will have teammates that are much worse than you, and sometimes your opponents will be much better than you. But I'm sorry to say that, in the majority of your games, this is not true, and there is no miracle patch coming that will suddenly give you "the right team". The only way to win more is to recognize the mistakes you make and think of what you could've done differently afterwards. There is always something you could've done differently. If it helps you to know, I'm Oracle III.

 

[Deadcel]

The amount of players between Seeker IV and Initiate IV makes up about 5% of the entire playerbase of ranked, and both are above the 90th percentile of all players. The difference in the average skill of players from one rank to another is negligible outside of Eternus.

What you are going through is what nearly every single person who's played a competitive online video game has gone through. If ranks matter to you, the only way anyone has ever consistently been able to climb the ladder is by improving themselves. Sometimes you will have teammates that are much worse than you, and sometimes your opponents will be much better than you. But I'm sorry to say that, in the majority of your games, this is not true, and there is no miracle patch coming that will suddenly give you "the right team". The only way to win more is to recognize the mistakes you make and think of what you could've done differently afterwards. There is always something you could've done differently. If it helps you to know, I'm Oracle III.

Wise words, not because there's something you can always have done differently, there are no-win scenarios and games that you get put into. Like your team mates only speaking a certain language I can't mention, otherwise I'll be flagged as xenophobic. Who then proceed to ignore all you tell them, including enemies pushing, you going in or trying to help them.

But your message of self improvement is spot on. If you focus on what you did, instead of what others did, you'll be constantly improving. Enable Steam recording. Watch a replay of yourself and check out where you were when things started to go down in a game you lost. Was your aim wrong? Perhaps tweak your aim sensitivity. Did you farm safe camps after being pushed off of your lane? Did you rotate somewhere else? All good things to consider. I like that message and I think if more people thought like that you'd have a good sportsmanship going on.

 

[jas2]

yeah wise but kinda fart huffing, self-actualizing words, too; unless you can show us the code nobody really knows how fair or unfair it is or how well it's really working.

You can't have a real representation of rank in this game until you have a draft with bans; first and more objectively because team composition matters,

second a more opinionated: right now what you have is a system selecting for individuals best capable of cheesing this week's op hero; that seems to be giving them brownie points for selfish behaviors whether they win or lose.

 

[javier.ddom]

Do as much OBJ damage as you can, don't chase kills but try to confirm them if convenient, and do your best not to die while still contributing

It's possible to jump multiple tiers so keep your win% as high as possible and stop playing ranked if you high a new record

 

[Rockpapertrade]

From my experimentation you not only need to win to gain rank, but you also need to have a positive KDR.

The other day I went 4/6 but we won and the match ended up costing me a rank.

 

[javier.ddom]

From my experimentation you not only need to win to gain rank, but you also need to have a positive KDR.

The other day I went 4/6 but we won and the match ended up costing me a rank.

According to a post, yoshi said it's only win/loss

 

[Rockpapertrade]

According to a post, yoshi said it's only win/loss

Thanks, went to discord and checked out his replys.
If your account doesn't have enough data they pull from other things to see if your a smurf.
Also there was an MMR update yesterday which is probably what caused everyone who's complaining about winning and deranking.

 

[jas2]

Oh how the turns have tabled my Dunning-Kruger friends.

What you're seeing is players who lost their crutch, or who were outpaced by the game pop gaining better fundamentals over time. They're butthurt because they don't realize how hard their cheese was carrying them.

Also I have games that I've been playing been getting updates for literal decades with only a few thousand players globally. How much does a banana cost? A game server? To Valve?

 

[Geneva]

Oh how the turns have tabled my Dunning-Kruger friends.

go outside

 

[kristaphacuga]

Everyone ITT absolutely mad about ranked when the game's barely close to an open beta.