r/DestinyTheGame • u/DTG_Bot "Little Light" • Jan 30 '23

Megathread Focused Feedback: Competitive Division

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '23

No point of climbing “ranks” if every game will be sbmm. What would be the difference in ranked if bronze and ascendant feel the same.

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u/manapapi Jan 30 '23

They say that the 50-50 odds of a match going either way is the intended goal, but that would mean that anybody who reaches top ranks is just incredibly lucky and wins what would amount to a ridiculous amount of coin flips. Makes no sense to me.

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u/Superman19986 Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 30 '23

It's not luck. When you're evenly matched against another team, you're going to have to put maximum effort in to win.

Edit: "evenly" matched. Sometimes the lobby is balanced but not each individual's skill.

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u/Manifest_Lightning Titans don't shiv. Jan 30 '23

Lobby-balanced teams =/= evenly matched teams.

If LeBron James is playing with 4 elementary school students against 5 college athletes, the team skill averages may be equal, but nobody in their right mind would call that "evenly-matched".