I have 600+ hours, why do I still play at a Gold skill level?

[Chows]

No the answer to this post is not "because you suck", that is the question.

[Steinaar]

I have several accounts on several platforms for Rocket and in my opinion here is how I see things.

GRP1) Bronze-Gold3 = all same skill level, most matches, same tactics same skill IMO
GRP2) Gold3to4 - Platinum3 = all same skill level, pulls off most air moves
GRP3) Platinum3to4 - Diamond3 = all same skill level, invested players, & try hards here

Diamond4-GrandChamp = you'll never be here, unrealistic, just run

time owned & time played won't change your skill level... here is how the skill matching system works for like 99.9% of these video games right.
So the first people to play and obtain rating, who play good, will most likely be the ones with the initial good rating right. Then afterwards you need to be absolutely beast mode past certain skill levels or ratings. Or alternatively get a friend who is Diamond, get your initial rank, bam Diamond from playing with him. See how that works, friends can drag you into their higher tiers, no limit on how many people can actually have a certain rank, just how many get placed in certain initial rankings is what holds the key.

If you were to play your initial rank by yourself vs your initial rank with a diamond player, the results will vary drastically. Then you can get carried into higher tiers just by your friends winning the game for you.

The game will try to balance you out and keep you close to your initial rank if it can, if you know how to avoid their stale ranking rating system, how little to no meaning when you know how it really works, then by knowing how it works you can avoid the speed bumbs and keep climibing the ranks.

So basically you are stuck at where most decent players are at the high end of Gold, are you connecting and making the air shots cuz that's what wins at this stage in the game. If you are then find ppl to carry you or help bumb you up vs down. Find new friends they can bring you up to their level, then go back and drag all your other friends with you. It's dumb system I know

[sami]

Because thats the rank you belong to.

[ToupouButtercup]

1352 hours, still bronze skill...

[ALIAS™]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Spawk:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Chows :

I have 600+ hours, why do I still play at a Gold skill level?[

No the answer to this post is not "because you suck", that is the question.

Because the longer you play, the more chance you have of falling into a matchmaking pit you can no longer climb out of. Here's an example:

Let's say you're playing at platinum level and fall back to gold or even high silver for whatever reason. Could be because of anything: a streak of bad luck, bad days or teammates messing you up/sabotaging the game/quitting. Take your pick. You don't get matched with people of lower MMR in that case. You get matched with people who had the same thing happen to them, and they're at the same skill level you are. At this point MMR becomes a trap. You're in gold and facing the same level of competition you were in platinum, making it nearly impossible to climb the ranks again.

What you are saying is every skill level has two brackets. A noob bracket and a vetran bracket. I just don't see it. If I'm playing well I rank up and if I don't I go down.

[ALIAS™]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Spawk:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย A L I A S™:

What you are saying is every skill level has two brackets. A noob bracket and a vetran bracket. I just don't see it. If I'm playing well I rank up and if I don't I go down.

Everyone ranks up if they're doing well and gets demoted when they do poorly. It's the fact that you're facing the same level of competition in lower ranks than when you were playing at a higher rank that makes the MMR system become a pit that gets harder and harder to climb out of.

I dunno man. I can tell someone's rank by how they play in casual. I'm almost always right. If what you are saying was the case then I couldn't guess peoples ranks.

[ALIAS™]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Spawk:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย A L I A S™:

If what you are saying was the case then I couldn't guess peoples ranks.

I don't see why that would be the case.

Because I'm making my rank guesses based on their skill in game. There's a good bit of difference between a plat player and a Diamond player. More so last season.

[ALIAS™]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Spawk:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย A L I A S™:

If what you are saying was the case then I couldn't guess peoples ranks.

I don't see how that pertains to people facing the same level of competition when falling back to lower brackets in ranked.

MIssed your edit. You don't face the same level of compitition. Atleast I don't.

[ALIAS™]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Atomic:

I was Gold in S05, nowadays I stopped caring about ranked I do freeplay practice and all that jazz and occasional 2s unranked with my D3 friend.

We sometimes bump into Champs but it's all good and sometimes own the field even.

I have no clue what rank I am because I didn't do my placement matches this time around, but I don't care lol I'm having fun and I highly appreciate practicing with higher tier players.

Edit: I got the game this April and have about 180h in-game played, so I guess I should be happy

You can play champs at any MMR in casual. Most of them hang out in the 700 - 900 MMR range but you will still run into them in the 500's on occation. Based off of your current MMR, if you were to play solo for 50 games I would say you would range between Gold 2 to Plat 1 for this season.

[Amalgam]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Chows:

No the answer to this post is not "because you suck", that is the question.

Well actually this is the answer, but you simply want to hear that you don't when you do.

[Chows]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Amalgam:

Well actually this is the answer, but you simply want to hear that you don't when you do.

No it isn't. I know I suck, i'm asking why do I still suck. Why am I not improving? Serious question asking for serious responses.

[Steinaar]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Chows:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Amalgam:

Well actually this is the answer, but you simply want to hear that you don't when you do.

No it isn't. I know I suck, i'm asking why do I still suck. Why am I not improving? Serious question asking for serious responses.

The game controls more of the result than you do as the player.

So I lost past almost 25 games now mostly in row. Why would someone ever want to play RL again? So if there was a true match making system it would have placed me with lower skilled and better team mates to balance out. Nope just bad run after bad run. The system doesn't work and the MMR is a fabricated thing. As I explained earlier on the first reply. It's very basic and a figmint of a true working model but they don't seem to know how to put it all together yet is what i'm gathering.

Nobody can play a game for 600 hours and remain the same skill level. That's mathematically impossible.

[Triga]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Chows:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Amalgam:

Well actually this is the answer, but you simply want to hear that you don't when you do.

No it isn't. I know I suck, i'm asking why do I still suck. Why am I not improving? Serious question asking for serious responses.

You will improve the longer you play, for sure. Also, I was grinding trainings for at least 100 hours of playtime. I'm at 1,2k played now and at Champ 1 at this moment. When i had 600 played I was struggling to achieve platinum aswell.

[Chows]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Triga:

You will improve the longer you play, for sure. Also, I was grinding trainings for at least 100 hours of playtime. I'm at 1,2k played now and at Champ 1 at this moment. When i had 600 played I was struggling to achieve platinum aswell.

That's actually relieving to hear.

[VonPumpkinson]

You're missing something your skill set, or you're still playing like a gold player.

Learn something new rather than improving the ones you have.

[A Successful White Man]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Spawk:

Because the longer you play, the more chance you have of falling into a matchmaking pit you can no longer climb out of.

This.

And, you suck.