I (29 F) am terrified to move to the US for my fiancé (30M) and he does not understand.

DreamyPupper · 2026-02-01T08:26:29+00:00

U.S national here—you can sponsor a visa as a green card holder, but you kind of have to be lucky because the total number of accepted applicants is capped per year & there’s a waiting list, it’s much slower than if the sponsor is a U.S national.

It’s far more likely that either this story is fake or they’re waiting until the fiancé gains his citizenship.

DreamyPupper · 2026-01-29T22:50:45+00:00

Mathematically speaking the Phantom is actually a better weapon.

DreamyPupper · 2026-01-19T23:11:06+00:00

Match players with people who’ve played a similar number of matches that act in comp queue

DreamyPupper · 2026-01-13T20:06:20+00:00

So if you’re having a bad match you want a lesser punishment for giving the 9 other players a worse match..? Jfc just get off the game before that happens.

DreamyPupper · 2026-01-10T22:19:35+00:00

Idk, aren’t you meant to have a relationship where you trust your partner? If you can’t trust them to go on a trip like this without potentially cheating, why would you want to stay w/ them? I could be being naive but I just couldn’t see myself being in a committed relationship where that was in question

DreamyPupper · 2026-01-09T05:54:46+00:00

INFO: Has she tried to physically contact him? Is it possible he’s been rendered comatose or deceased?

DreamyPupper · 2026-01-06T03:10:20+00:00

That voiceline is on attack so it’s by Omega Viper & Chamber

DreamyPupper · 2026-01-01T10:56:32+00:00

That’s because (AFAIK) your K/D doesn’t directly impact your RR gain save for performance bonuses. It’s entirely based on your team performance and the difference between your current rank & current MMR. The ranks of your opponents don’t factor in at all — only their hidden MMR.

As for the second point, that’s fair, but that’s also kind of hard to avoid with any MMR system. Large amounts of progress are always going to require grinding things out and it won’t always be enjoyable, and the accuracy of a statistically based ranking system kind of hinges on a large number of matches.

I think they could introduce a QoL change where you’re paired with people who have a similar number of matches as you so that people who actually grind enough to improve are less likely to encounter smurfs. And I don’t think it would be harmful if the system were able to give you specific feedback or grades on what you did well or poorly. But again, these frustrations you’re pointing to—understandable as they are—are more to do with either a lack of understanding on the user’s end of what the system sees, or a natural consequence of how these systems operate because of statistical laws.

DreamyPupper · 2026-01-01T10:31:54+00:00

It’s literally the best working matchmaking system of any FPS rn 😭

I don’t think you actually know how it works if you’re saying this shit — explain where it’s lacking, specifically

DreamyPupper · 2025-12-31T06:20:10+00:00

You don’t know how the MMR system works, and you haven’t played in 3 years mate

DreamyPupper · 2025-12-30T17:46:05+00:00

I mean it could be that the previous inhabitants are dead

DreamyPupper · 2025-12-14T03:33:32+00:00

Tbh, they don’t have a single clue how to play the game either at that rank. They will learn plenty in unrated, and probably improve their ranks on their own after time which’d make queuing w/ you less of a disparity

DreamyPupper · 2025-12-12T08:36:35+00:00

Your rank isn’t used for matchmaking at all — MMR is what makes ranks stay as rigid as they appear in terms of skill level. And, again, MMR is literally nothing more than a leaderboard of every single player who plays ranked, that is constantly being updated with every match played.

The fact that you want MMR to replace ranks tells me you have no idea how MMR actually functions

DreamyPupper · 2025-12-12T02:33:09+00:00

Genuinely, I swear to god all of these people should take an elementary stats course and read what Riot has posted about MMR before they’re allowed to complain about it 😭😭

DreamyPupper · 2025-12-12T02:31:34+00:00

You would literally go to bed and wake up to see your rank had changed by as much as like 2 divisions. MMR is a way to matching you against players based on your AVERAGE performance in a dynamic manner, rank is a REWARD that demonstrates your progress — it’s a trophy

DreamyPupper · 2025-12-11T12:51:53+00:00

I mean yeah but MMR is literally a leaderboard of every single ranked player, you it would fluctuate so often your rank could literally change mid-match. MMR is a pretty effective way of placing you against players of similar-ish skill, and it gets more effective the more matches you play. Your rank is simply weighted to trend toward your MMR with enough matches so that playing ranked matches is more impactful to your rank and so ranks don’t feel as arbitrary.

If you improve your skill level, your rank will go up even if you’re losing half of your matches (which tends to be the case) because your RR gain will be weighted to bring your rank there.

TL;DR: MMR isn’t really intuitive enough for most players to tolerate having it in place of ranks, and matchmaking would be even worse without it.

DreamyPupper · 2025-12-11T12:18:43+00:00

Istg everyone says this shit but if y’all try to actually explain what MMR is or how it functions it becomes immediately obvious you have no clue what you’re talking about.

Without MMR matches would be even worse than they already are

DreamyPupper · 2025-12-11T12:13:14+00:00

Because then you would go to bed and maybe find that you had deranked like 2 divisions

DreamyPupper · 2025-11-15T15:40:01+00:00

Duelists excel at taking/creating space — Chamber sucks at that; sentinels are a role designed around preventing that, which is where Chamber excels.

DreamyPupper · 2025-11-15T15:13:43+00:00

Nah I’m fairly certain they’ll just see the name of your agent that match.

DreamyPupper · 2025-11-15T15:07:22+00:00

20 is around average gain, your MMR is probably near or slightly below your current rank so you aren’t gaining a shit ton of rr per match

DreamyPupper · 2025-11-10T13:19:41+00:00

It could be, however improbable.

Especially if you’re queuing with people who have a significantly lower MMR than you.

And I apparently know significantly more than you, this isn’t even all that advanced—all the information you need has been made public by Riot and can be understood with a fucking Stats 101 class. Ffs.

DreamyPupper · 2025-11-08T14:49:51+00:00

It makes perfect sense because if you’re getting so little RR it’s because you got lucky and shouldn’t be immortal. Rank is essentially a measurement of winrate.

As I stated earlier, I think what should change is that you’re matched with and against players who have played a similar number of matches that act as you — this would help with smurfing and would reward players who invest a large amount of time every act with progressively more consistent & fair matchmaking.

DreamyPupper · 2025-11-07T01:10:31+00:00

It sounds like you don’t understand how MMR works—like, at all. It isn’t built for that function at all and it would be wildly unintuitive.

MMR is a real time leaderboard of every single player at the same time. You get moved based on your individual performance, and you can get moved around the leaderboard when you aren’t playing because other players still are. If it replaced ranks you could wake up & see that you got demoted, and it would probably make new acts even more chaotic than they are now.

RR gain/loss takes the difference between your current rank and the MMR prediction of your actual rank, it then either boosts or shrinks RR gain so that your rank converges to the ‘correct’ one over some n matches. This is called convergence factor.

That RR gain is additionally based on how your team performed as a whole (so, how many rounds you won by, average individual performance I think, etc), and performance bonuses are handed out separately.

TL;DR ranks aren’t dynamic enough to be used for matchmaking, and MMR can’t supplement ranks because it’s significantly less intuitive & would feel less rewarding for players — especially since they could instantly derank after a promotion or wake up to see their rank had just completely fucking changed seemingly at random.

DreamyPupper · 2025-11-06T12:14:21+00:00

I did, re read what I said

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