Countless good players at very low elo, did something happen??

[✇|:5murf514y3r..¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

I'm facing a lot of god tier players at garbage elo, trying to get all characters to Garyu.
I've done them all in alphabetical order and I am now trying with Zafina. I'm routinely getting matched against players with 20+ streaks and very very low elo and Tekken prowess. They're clearly smurfs or their real accounts got banned.
Did something happen recently?

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people is still jumping into the tekken 8 train from tekken 7, so those players with really low prowess are in fact, strong players from 7, add to that, the knowledge from tekken 7 is completely transferable over tekken 8, the only new thing is the heat system. most real new players were from the launch days, I feel like right now only tekken enthusiasts are buying the game, maybe when tekken 8 gets into sale we will see a new batch of rookie players for the game.

[Teruko]

Ranks don't truly matter. People can be very skilled at the game without having played ranked at all, leading to a situation where they'll eventually start playing Ranked and have to climb up.

Additionally, there can be plenty of good people who end up getting stuck in lower ranks due to something fundamentally wrong with their gameplay (being bad at dealing with lows/throws, being unable to open the opponent up, dropping combos, etc), OR due to lacking knowledge of something. Some people can be very good fundamentally and still end up losing if they don't know how to deal with a particular character, situation, attack, etc.

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Originally posted by Teruko:

Ranks don't truly matter. People can be very skilled at the game without having played ranked at all, leading to a situation where they'll eventually start playing Ranked and have to climb up.

Additionally, there can be plenty of good people who end up getting stuck in lower ranks due to something fundamentally wrong with their gameplay (being bad at dealing with lows/throws, being unable to open the opponent up, dropping combos, etc), OR due to lacking knowledge of something. Some people can be very good fundamentally and still end up losing if they don't know how to deal with a particular character, situation, attack, etc.

even lack of free time for playing at all

[MxWu1337-bilibili]

Yeah... I got pushed off of Kishin and am struggling to keep Raijin right now xD

It's really strange

[C1REX]

I’ve just played against a Fujin with 350.000 prowess. I can’t even describe the skill gap. I’ve also learned that Dragunov can do 60% damage without walls.

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Originally posted by C1REX:

I’ve just played against a Fujin with 350.000 prowess. I can’t even describe the skill gap. I’ve also learned that Dragunov can do 60% damage without walls.

dragunov, paul, alisa and many more does insane chip damage in tk8, even reina does it

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Originally posted by Step on me, please:

Ranked is about as fun as getting a limb crushed by a hydraulic press.

No wonder people become quickmatch residents but they all have to force themselfes to climb eventually.

i miss having low rank and quickmatching, now I always get paired with 130K players.

[KnucklesX2]

I keep getting gate kept by mighty rulers on second characters at orange using zafina. They still have mighty ruler level gamesense... Did all the real people quit playing who belong at this rank or are still learning? I lose way too many points fighting higher rank too.

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Originally posted by KnucklesX2:

I keep getting gate kept by mighty rulers on second characters at orange using zafina. They still have mighty ruler level gamesense... Did all the real people quit playing who belong at this rank or are still learning? I lose way too many points fighting higher rank too.

casuals stopped playing after getting bodied many times by dragunov and king. they just moved into another easier games

[KALI_CHILD-51]

PEOPLE ARE HAVING A CORRUPTED FILES. STARTING THE GAME AGAIN. ME ASWELL.. I CANT FIND HOW TO GET IR FIXED

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Originally posted by EOWS:

PEOPLE ARE HAVING A CORRUPTED FILES. STARTING THE GAME AGAIN. ME ASWELL.. I CANT FIND HOW TO GET IR FIXED

if u overwritten ur save I think there's nothing u can do.

[Shoah Kahn]

I never bothered to go beyond "Platinum" in SF6, and I was better than 99% of those who I faced; even while using and "F-tier" character (Manon). Online "ranks" have two purposes, and two purposes alone:
1. To keep people playing via busywork incentivisation -- not to dissimilar to those insulting "Achievements", exploiting the same psychological foibles
2. To give casuals the sense of progression in a heady PvP environment that they would otherwise abandon, or ignore entirely.