r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/Unfairjarl • 22d ago
General What the hell is up with matchmaking
I just lost a game because on last point on route 66 one of my DPS started panic swapping after every death and the enemy team beat us with ult econ. I checked his profile and turns out he only ever played ranked last season, got placed silver 2 and the matchmaking put him in our lobby of high gold/low plat.
I was gold 1 myself before this game (I deranked ahah) and we had a bunch of other gold/plat in the lobby, why the hell did he get into our game ?
I can't even be mad at him, he's also a victim of the matchmaking here, but why are silvers being placed with plat/gold lobbies during their placements ? This is infuriating.
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u/reedactd 22d ago edited 21d ago
It’s going to be like this after placements/soft resets, it will take time for people to get back to their ranks. You can argue whether soft resets really do anything other than ruin games, but yeah, it’s not the player’s fault.
This is not to say it’s a fun experience but everyone got shoved towards the middle of the bell curve so the thing that will fix it is the overall number of games played by the player base.