Killer MMR

[Your mommy]

Does anyone know if each killer has its own MMR? Every time i pick up a new killer, the games feel incredibly easy: survivors can't loop, never look backwards while running etc. But after 4-5 games, I'm matched with much better players.

This has happened 3 times for me so far, when trying out Legion, then pinhead, now plague. Is it just a coincidence? Or a faint glimpse of what little MMR DbD actually has?

[NarkoTri1er]

yesterday I had my first Nemy game ever, it was a 4-men SWF with 5k hours in total, tho they were friendly and were helping me learn to use his power more precise. I can see only slight difference regarding MMR between each killer so I wouldn't really say each killer truly has their own MMR, despite I believed they do before.

[eh why not]

They are supposed to yes. Sadly it doesn't seem to work that way for me. I'll play a killer I have touched in years and still get the same 4 man swfs that all know exactly how to play, while I'm re-learning a killer. Could go against bots, but that's kinda pointless they are so terrible you can almost always 4K them before they get a 2nd gen done.

[Elettro46]

they do have their separate mmr, but it simply doesn't start from bottom every time you get a new killer. the starting mmr you get depends on the mmr you have on other killers too

[Tensu]

Yes and no. Killers you are bad at or never play will be a lower MMR then your "Main" but not bottom of the barrel.

If it makes it easier to visualize think of a rank system where bronze 5 is the lowest and diamond 1 is the highest.

If the killer you main and do the best on is say diamond 1 rank all your other killers will be clamped in a bracket around that rank meaning even your very worst killer or a killer you had never played before would go against say plat 5 players.

The reason behind this is the game figures if your main killer is that high then while you might lack the mechanical knowledge or ability of the killer your game ability/knowledge with things like mind games, loops etc is high enough where you should not be going against absolute new players.

[Gabriel Angelos]

Does MMR even work anymore is the question. I think they have lowered the buffer again, games are crazy different atm. You can go from organised teams to newbies game after as same killer even.

Also tried survivor and its the same, I guess they are giving up on the SBMM?

[Kabari♥]

From what I know yes, it should, but I did my climb to Iridiscent 1 again after coming back, played Deathslinger till I reached Iri4 and noticed Survivors were getting really good, like really, really good, with at least one person over 10k hours per lobby since the beginning of the climb. I did switch killer (I bought the Dredge and wanted to try them out), and they brought me to Iri2 with an overall winrate (4k and still gens left done) of 86%, and then I got stuck to Iri2 because I started finding monsters of survivors again. It should apply, but sometimes there are things that matchmaking doesn't count, such as SWF and things like that, so be careful

[Tensu]

Originally posted by Mumm-Ra:

Does MMR even work anymore is the question. I think they have lowered the buffer again, games are crazy different atm. You can go from organised teams to newbies game after as same killer even.

Also tried survivor and its the same, I guess they are giving up on the SBMM?

unless they have changed backend stuff the MMR system is the same the only thing I can think is I know they adjust the MMR you go against to speed up the q time so if your playing the role that is not getting the buff there is a chance you might go against wildly higher or lower skilled players

[yesnt]

i think there's both general killer/player MMR stacked with the MMR of a specific killer

[San Dark Sun]

Otzdarva explains how MMR works
https://youtu.be/qjY2ANPWlp0

[Bleydoka]

You have like a general MMR and the MMR gets just slightly modified for each killer. You wouldn't really notice the difference.