Ok, so I haven’t really realised this until my Season 11 placements. But they are literally the most frustrating, inaccurate and overall abusive things in OW.
First of all, it allows throwers and trolls to be at their prime, and completely destroy people’s chances of ever climbing in ranked before they ever receive their rank. Placement’s also lead to a lot of frustration because I mean. The way they are put, you think if you do well you will be able to climb out of a rank. Do you wanna know one thing that doesn’t go with frustration?
Losing
If you lose a placement or the majority of your placements it’s gonna lead to frustration in-game, which consequently leads to being toxic. I’ve noticed a lot of people starting off nice in game, and then when we begin to lose. They get toxic. I mean, I can’t blame em. Placement’s put a lot of pressure on people to do well, because they think if they don’t then they’re screwed for the rest of the season.
My last point is, they’re completely pointless. I mean, it’s not like in the next 2-3 days (off-season) you’re going to have improved so much that you would get out of a rank. If you think about it literally, a season ends and then the next one starts 2-3 days later. You’re not going to have drastically changed and become a pro in 3 days.
So, overall the reason I think placements are just completely pointless is because they open up so much room for trolls, frustrate a lot of people and really mean nothing.
If you disagree, please tell me why.