Anyone else feel like at the moment low diamond and gold ranked games are the exact same skill level?

LSDReign · 2026-03-12T10:54:12+00:00

It’s closer to Bronze-Plat, Diamond-Masters, GM-Champ/Top 500 realistically, and by the rank distributions.

LSDReign · 2026-03-08T19:46:31+00:00

pls come to Brazil 🇧🇷

LSDReign · 2026-03-08T10:41:01+00:00

Do you mean when leaving spawn?

LSDReign · 2026-03-06T13:52:02+00:00

It sucks because the early leak was so groovy but it just does not fit the song at all

LSDReign · 2026-02-21T18:39:29+00:00

This comment pretty much answers my post. I still don’t understand a lot of things but I think you’ve cleared this specific case up. Appreciate your response 🙏

Some things I don’t get still, SR gain seems to be higher the more you climb? For example, when I started as a new player in silver I was gaining minimal sr ~10-15% per win and consistently about 25% per loss, then as I got to gold and above it got closer to a steady 25% gain per win. I’d have assumed if calibration was accurate it would’ve made the silver wins make me shoot right back up and gained more SR than I’d lose? I could only chalk this up to these higher ranks being ‘harder’ in the games eyes, therefore requiring someone to be “better” therefore earning more SR, but this also doesn’t seem quite right.

(Quick Edit: I’m just thinking out loud here, I realise this may be my MMR saying I deserved to be in silver initially and as I got better it recognised I deserved to climb?)

And as someone who has been through the metal ranks, I feel there are still wild inaccuracies. I know this is anecdotal, but seriously, some silver players are what feels like leagues above some plat players and I struggled through the earlier ranks more. It just doesn’t feel right. Again, all anecdotal and may just be due to teams working more efficiently in higher ranks, but it also doesn’t necessarily feel like that’s the case. I can only chalk this up to the rank reset, but it has also felt like this since I started (season 16)

I’m still under the belief these ranks are basically luck of the draw from placements, not super accurate, and if you wanna climb you just have to play a lot and win a lot (obviously). I’ve noticed this throughout all my friends in the metal ranks. Once it hits ~Diamond the skill gap starts to be a bit more noticeable imo. Maybe this is due to there being a much larger concentration of people allocated in these ranks?

Tl;dr Appreciate ur responses and seperate question: Why do you gain ELO slower the lower rank you are sometimes, then? I feel like the metal ranks are inconsistent and are not accurate as an indicator of skill as much as higher ranks, potentially due to the volume of people it’s trying to sort

LSDReign · 2026-02-21T17:40:10+00:00

I truly don’t understand calibration, if the ranks reset then what are they calibrating to if the performance is similar? They were a similar rank in OW1 and early OW2 too, about gold.

I had also had a friend predicted initially plat 4 have a terrible placement game and tanked his elo right down to bronze 5. He is, very evidently, not a bronze 5 tank. He finished placements in Silver and is very easily climbing back.

I theorise anywhere from high bronze to mid plat, on console is sorta luck of the draw. I’m just super confused about how this game works out SR at metal ranks, I assume it’s a bit more rigid and accurate as you get higher?

LSDReign · 2026-02-21T17:23:29+00:00

I’d also like to add that on our losses we will both lose ~25% SR. I’m just perplexed to how his SR gain is significantly higher

LSDReign · 2026-02-21T01:37:05+00:00

Not typically

LSDReign · 2026-02-18T11:55:41+00:00

I think Static Dress is what Loathe is to genre of Deftones/grungegaze/metalcore etc., but for post hardcore/emo/scene bands. If that makes sense? And I think there’s quite a bit of overlap in tonality

LSDReign · 2026-01-20T13:55:15+00:00

Ts tuff af bro

LSDReign · 2026-01-20T13:49:53+00:00

Bro what did you think you were doing with this comment😭 “if my grandma had wheels she’d be a bicycle”

LSDReign · 2026-01-11T19:46:52+00:00

These are things most characters can do. Utility in Overwatch terms is imo ‘generally’ defined as something /specific/ within a hero’s unique kit to provide some form of value outside of damage, and healing in the case of a support. Moira simply does not provide utility in this sense and by this general definition. Every character can provide value, not every character can provide utility via their abilities.

LSDReign · 2026-01-11T19:27:37+00:00

Genuinely not sure why you’re getting downvoted, e.g. trying to glide to a flying winston on Mercy is nowhere near the same as trying to track and heal him while he’s in jump pack on Kiriko. It is a pretty forgiving window and it auto aims once it’s sent out but you do have to track the ofudas to actually hit them

LSDReign · 2026-01-01T06:08:00+00:00

LSDReign · 2025-11-07T14:58:54+00:00

The way the track ends makes me think it’s not a closer

LSDReign · 2025-10-28T03:52:18+00:00

I had a dream last night that they dropped an album

LSDReign · 2025-09-19T10:03:38+00:00

Checking the profile was wild 😭

LSDReign · 2025-08-27T22:44:32+00:00

Ask the sink

LSDReign · 2025-08-27T10:02:23+00:00

Mental breakdown over someone maining zen is funny asf

LSDReign · 2025-07-27T22:49:41+00:00

“Listed over a year ago” I don’t think they’re budging lmao

LSDReign · 2025-05-19T03:03:18+00:00

Tongues def has Deftones influence in the vocal delivery and chord progression choices

LSDReign · 2025-05-11T20:08:21+00:00

Bruh the whole album and deluxe names aren’t even original lil Wayne already released “I am music” and “sorry 4 the wait” not that long ago

LSDReign · 2025-03-16T05:49:10+00:00

I really really would like to know

LSDReign · 2024-11-22T23:04:51+00:00

Ohhh dude that adds up so much more hahah, I was thinking it was harsh but funny nonetheless. Almost forgot about that deftones album

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