Kabaji has been playing a new account and did his placement matches, of which the first ones were at a very low level. Silver, maybe even Bronze. The last matches were in high gold, low plat.
His placements ended with him having 6 Wins/3 Defeats/1 Draw. And him placing in low Plat.
The rules were, that he had to fill. So if someone took the DPS slots (he is extremely good on Tracer/Soldier/Wid), he would take another role. Many of the matches would be on Zenyatta and Ana, both of whom can carry to a decent degree, or Zarya and Roadhog of the tanks.
He would play other heroes as well as needed, and also a few times his mains. Even on his extremely good Tracer (he was #16 on EU ladder as highest last season) he simply could not carry some games.
Mind you, even if he didn’t play much on his mains, he regularly plays all the mentioned heroes in T500 games - both healers and tanks.
Some games are just completely impossible, no matter what you do. Even if you were a T500 player there is no way in hell you could win certain games.
EDIT:
Kabaji’s placement matches on the alt account:
h ttps://www.twitch.tv/videos/274278945
This really highlights what many feel in these completely hopeless games, that we all experience. Those games, where we can’t even leave the spawn because the team is so hopeless.
I wonder how the system can put people of so wildly diverging skill levels in the same team.
There are a lot of factors there, mostly the solo Queue RNG that is horrendous.
You feel (and most of the times is true) that at least 30% of your matches are decided by the MMR system putting dead weight on your team.
Yes, sometimes the dead weight is on the other team but then again, in certain ranks, where you are 500SR ish near where you belong, is LITERALLY impossible to carry. Mostly because you are not brutally better than your enemies and they are not “bad” enough for you to consistently win 60% or more of the time.
Its not a matter of skill if you Solo queue, its a matter of Luck, Skill and RNGsus in the “team mates” lotto.
Dude silver and gold these days is like bronze used to be early Overwatch, there no aim very slow reaction, you just solo hard carry that, Kabaji just played very poorly during quickplay so he’s MMR was fixed low which should’t even happen considering he’s top 500.
Hey just a not t500 player here. I cant hard carry some silver-gold games on heroes Ive pretty much never played. I could still climb out of there pretty easy with those but if I wanted to climb fast aka. hard-carry most games I would pick something I know how to play.
Sincerely not a t500 player.
He played a fresh account. He hasn’t done any manipulation.
Mind you, this guy is one of the best at the game.
What baffles me, is that some of these people are playing with me. Does the system see me as being as bad as them? That would be quite insulting.
If not, what is it then? How can blatantly weak players reach the level where they cause a complete stomp? Why isn’t the matchmaker better?
That does’t change anything he can easily place high diamond or masters as top 500 even on a fresh account
But he didn’t.
You can see his placement matches here (I will edit the OP with it as well):
h ttps://www.twitch.tv/videos/274278945
Its usually a WR problem.
The system tries to even the overall internal MMR of the team and their WR to 50% so often, you get 2 players that by luck or whatever it is, happen to have lets say 70% WR both. Then you with 50% ish and then you get 2 dudes with 25% WR.
The enemy team gets people in the 40-60% WR, the match is “even” mathematically. Now practically those 2 dudes with 200 matches and only 50 wins are DEAD weight and its literally impossible to carry.