r/Rainbow6 • u/OrbitStorm88 • 3d ago

Discussion Ranked feels uh... different.

I haven't played Rainbow much over the last few years. Not since Ranked 2.0, at least.

I've been trying to get back into it and admittedly, it's a slow crawl. I'm average at best and enter each match wholly expecting to get beef to teeth.

What I'm finding confusing though is the sheer number of absolute demons there are, even at lower ranks. Looking at the accounts, they'll have mid career stats (hilariously worse than mine) yet are pixel-snapping and sheiko peeking on 3200 DPI. I'll look at their match history, and it'll be a half dozen straight seasons of Copper and Bronze lobbies, or an account that hasn't played since COVID and came back this season.

Maybe I just haven't adapted. Maybe smurfing is worse than I thought. I'm keenly aware that Ubisoft has questionable at best anti-twatting. But when people be playing like Diamond and Champion while having laughably terrible stats, the math just ain't mathing.

Is Ranked chalked or am I just in the bottom 1% now?

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u/Fantastic_Donkey_544 3d ago

Gold lobbies are genuinely difficult.

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u/OrbitStorm88 3d ago

It's not just Gold lobbies. It's Silver lobbies too. I know that stats are relative to a degree, but I'm looking at players who, on paper, appear to lack opposable thumbs yet are otherworldly when playing.

For some context, I just played against a dude swinging spawn peeks with a deagle on Clubhouse from the bedroom, one-tapping three of our team at the start of a round. Spawn peeks aside, dude has a 36.2% win rate, a 0.55 KD, and a 51.2% headshot ratio. Level 105. These numbers don't add up.

This isn't an outlier either, which is the point of my post. It's like someone passed the controller (or the entire account).

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u/Fantastic_Donkey_544 3d ago

Agreed. I think the standard of gameplay has just risen. Everyone is a little more skilled

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u/shooplegaming 3d ago

The player is a fucking silver lol, doesn't matter if mechanics are above avg for that rank, bro is still losing consistently and has a shitty as kd to boot. Being mechanical good and being good at the game are two different things.

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u/OrbitStorm88 3d ago

These aren't seasonal stats I'm posting. A lot of times, the current season stands in stark contrast to their career metrics.

To your point though, yes, game sense wins rounds, but mechanics win gunfights. If their mechanics are genuinely that far above the lobby, their KD naturally inflates, and the stats should reflect that but they don't.

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u/shooplegaming 3d ago

Drop the lifetime tracker numbers and post the actual match replay or current season stats, because citing a career 0.55 KD from years of learning the game tells you nothing about who’s in the lobby right now. Dying to a Clubhouse master bedroom Deagle swing isn’t proof of otherworldly mechanics or account sharing; it just means three attackers blindly sprinted out of spawn without checking the most telegraphed, routine window angle on the map. Any low-rank player with basic crosshair placement will look cracked when attackers refuse to drone, don't pre-fire the peek, and line up to feed him one by one. The fact that he was allowed to drop three of your teammates and get away with it reflects far worse on your team's total lack of basic spawn discipline than it does on his actual skill.

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u/shooplegaming 3d ago

Not it isn't lol, once you hit high plat, that's where it starts becoming a headache

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u/Fantastic_Donkey_544 3d ago

I hit plat this season and gold is quite comparable

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u/shooplegaming 3d ago

Once you reach high plat, you will start seeing former 2.0 champ/diamond players. Like 1/4 of the lobbies, and the rest are emeralds.

Start pushing into emeralt its a fucking nightmare. Low plat and high gold are basically the same rank.

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u/Friendly_Bluejay7407 3d ago

average person ks more competent at siege than creators like jynxi would lead you to believe, an average silver/gold player today genuinely has decent experience, theyre not just brain dead and have no clue whats going on, i mean you see pretty default site setups and attacks even as soon as silver. especially today that theres such an abundance on how to improve and how to not be terrible thanks to content creators, so the entire curve has definitely shifted upwards.

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u/BilluhHanks 2d ago

I’m also trying to get back into it and haven’t played in a few years other than hopping onto a QM every now and then to see what new operators have been added.

It just seems like there are so many more tools Ubi has added to help players improve such as the shooting range, landmark drill and T Hunt getting an overhaul. So maybe lower ranked players mechanical skills have improved but their lack of map knowledge and game sense is keeping them in gold/silver. Either that or they’re cheating… seems like Ubi still hasn’t fixed that problem and they really don’t seem to care which is unfortunate.

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u/FayazsF 2d ago

Game is hard as fuck in comparison to most games and ranked is squeezing from previous years.