Every account has a hidden stat called MMR, or Matchmaking Rating. When you win a game, your MMR goes up, and when you lose a game, your MMR goes down. This is proportional to the skill of the enemies you are playing against, and the skill of your teammates. When the matchmaker puts you in a game, it attempts to find matches where both sides have a 50% chance of winning. This naturally leads to players gravitating towards 50% winrates. It does this using your MMR.
The fact that you have a 50% win rate does NOT correlate to your skill level. Neither does your account level. A player can be level 40 with a low MMR, or a level 15 with a high MMR. If you are a better player than your MMR would suggest, then you will get placed into games with a higher than 50% chance of winning them. Likewise, if your skill level is lower than your MMR would suggest, then you will be placed into games that you have a less than 50% chance of winning. This will continue until your MMR reflects your true skill. If a player believes that their MMR is beneath their skill level, and that they consistently play with and against players that are less skilled than them, they simply have to play more games, and eventually their MMR will reflect their true skill.
Always remember that you are the only constant in between your games, and that you do have a significant impact in the outcome. Especially in an FPS, one player out of 6 makes a huge contribution. When one talks about unfair games and that they are consistently put into games that they have no chance of winning, only means that the Matchmaker thought that they were more skilled than they really are, and put them into a higher level game than they belong in. It is unreasonable to suggest that the matchmaker consistently places a player into games where their team is less skilled than themselves and the enemy team.
TL;DR, Forced 50 is real, but it is a good thing that allows games to more fair and of higher quality. Win rate=/= skill.
Ian Cook
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Ryder Howard
for 250 overcoins, what is the best highlight intro for your favorite character?
Jack Morales
it does 22 damage per second
Thomas Sanchez
>These players are cheating or have recently cheated and they have been caught, and blizzard is doing fuck all
>People like these will continue to cheat forever because blizzard either can't detect the cheat or is afraid to ban because of bad publicity and drama
Is it just me or is de-mecha'd D.Va's gun fucking amazing
Grayson Brown
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Aaron Price
>enter match >see this
What would you do?
Adam Turner
WIDOWMAKER MCCREE AND MEI ARE RUINING THIS GAME PROVE ME WRONG /OWG/
Noah Nelson
I don't like queueing against premades as a solo player
Landon Torres
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Wyatt Watson
leave as usual
Carson Reyes
It's just a slightly modified Mercy pistol.
So yes, it's deceptively amazing.
Jace Anderson
What is objectively the best skin?
Asher Baker
What legendary skin should I buy? What's the best?
I can't decide and can't start playing again until I do
Wyatt Cooper
>double mcree on king of the hill
I am so fucking mad. Is there any counter to this fucking bullshit?
Austin Parker
I love how all the proofs keep getting dismissed with "the spectator just makes it look buggy!"
This game is off to a great start.
Grayson Price
Reminder that for the most part, Mei is a bad McCree
Joshua Powell
lel this was fast
James Reyes
>playing lucio >roadhog hooks me >blast him away with m2
Ryder Hughes
switch to Lucio
Hudson Sanders
I swear People are just too stupid to just shoot sometimes.
I see people just standing there letting Reaper literally walk up to them, for seconds, and ult, without shooting him, and of course they don't shoot during the ult.
Or a road hog not being shot at when I put my shield up as rein
Or an opposing Rein charging in and NO one shooting him until I clobber him, meanwhile the other team seems to head shot me all at once me when they see any possibility
Come to think of it, it happens WAY too often that I have to take matters into my own hands, and then all I hear is excuses like "Oh I couldn't hit him" or "he was so stealthy"
motherfucker, when I see him as Reinhardt without being able to turn the fuck around, he's not stealthy.
When I kill him with flame strike from 15m away, he was not good at dodging.
Stop being shit and just shoot the fuckers right in the head.
Evan Cooper
Why is Symmetra classified as support? She isn't a healer. She's a defense character. I hate the classifications. Why?
Zachary Stewart
stonehardt
Jonathan Phillips
can someone please give me a link/gif of the dva victory pose that is really cute with the finger gun...you know the one
Charles Morales
why does Junkrat hate Numbani?
James Hall
How do i headshot as widow? Everyone moves so fucking awfully in this game i can barely hit anyone.
Levi Hernandez
Who do you play?
Kevin Mitchell
>not carrying your team to victory
Take a look at this shitter.
Cooper Moore
play a shit hero so the game will end fast
Brandon Fisher
shut the fuck up you stupid bitch, unbalanced stomps are not fair, and so isn't carrying retards and shitters and literal beginners
delete your post
Henry Perry
Speed up zarya's reload by 15%.
There, I fixed her.
Nathaniel Mitchell
More like ''homo''watch
Joshua King
second best ship
Zachary Jenkins
I cannot. I'm waiting patiently for the competitive patch alongside mcree/widow nerfs.
Alexander Perez
GETTING REAL FUCKING TIRED OF GENJI SHITTERS ON MY TEAM
Jeremiah Evans
Support doesn't inherently mean healer
Her main ability supports the team as a whole
Dominic Rodriguez
>people actually defends that aimbot locking onto the revived lucio
Jackson Adams
Blizz recently banned 1500 players for cheating.
Get good, hothead-kun
Nathaniel Anderson
>look at your most played hero >look at their skins >decide which you like most
gee, so hard to choose
Joshua Wright
>Leaving game >Finding a more balanced game
Ryder Rivera
Post yfw
> Too many snipers > No tank heroes > No support heroes
Jaxon Long
Smoke 76
Adrian Lee
its a post on reddit, retard
Jayden Wood
>types all this shit >no one cares or responds because the idea is stupid in its entirety
Oliver Gutierrez
git gud :^) Obviously the game thinks you're good enough to take them on, wouldn't it be a shame to let Blizzard-senpai down ;)
Benjamin Morgan
>no healer gg afk desu
Jordan Green
blizzard please make it happen
Anthony Edwards
Who do you deal with a good Zarya?
Blake Reyes
how am i so good at this game
Evan Ramirez
What's the first one?
Josiah Thomas
pharah
Tyler Richardson
I may be a shitter but at least I don't play Overwatch on a fucking calculator
Brandon Myers
So, playing Toblerone, why do I get the feeling that people are playing him wrong and how alot of flankers underestimate both his turret and his gun?
Those molten metal hurt alot both in single fire and shotgun modes.
Connor Walker
>that feel when I kind of want to play and get better at Reinhardt >too much reliance from allies not being shit
He seems cool but I'm not playing in a full stack and it seems most people are completely awful at this game.
Alexander Rogers
Soldier 76 asking the big questions
Oliver Perry
people are probably playing him like you would the engineer in tf2
Kevin Long
Mercy Reaper Reinhardt Lucio is my most played but I dislike his legendary skins, the purple recolor I unlocked is better. I also have Biker torbjorn and Mecha Phara.
Jeremiah Harris
LOL
Liam Allen
DEELEEETE THIS
REEEEEEEEEEE
Carson Davis
>responding to reddit pasta
who's the stupid one again?
Kayden Evans
I didn't respond because it's just really obvious since every modern multiplayer game does that. I mean really how is this news to anyone?
Cameron Flores
>join game with only three people on defense because shitters keep leaving >we end up winning and I get five golds
Brody Barnes
Niggers and omniggers.
Wyatt Moore
>he doesn't know
Put everything on low and events happen faster for you. Why do you think all streamers/"pro" players play on all low?
Caleb Brooks
>sixty on console
S I X T Y
How does blizzard do it
William Gomez
D.VA'S LIPS ARE MADE FOR ______
Joseph Morris
I actually hand typed that all out just for /owg/.
Reddit apparently has intimate familiarity with the League of Legends matchmaker :^)
Ryder Russell
Torb himself is easily just as strong if not stronger than his turret. His turret is just there to fuck solo flankers and get you free eliminations after a couple of automatic shots. The Rivet Gun is fucking ridiculous.
Dylan Brown
HOw many matches does it take to remove the penalty?
Jason Anderson
Any videos of good Reinhardts playing?
Justin Walker
I don't get it
Carter Morales
>tfw found a competitive minded group to play with >reinhardt is actually extremely fun now Now I see the light
Carson Davis
that wasn't really funny
Jackson Johnson
His gun is actually disgusting. Torbs who afk by their turret are doing it wrong. They should be running around skirmishing and collecting scrap.
Nathaniel Gonzalez
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Nolan Morris
bend over and take it up the ass
Parker Morris
Im an objectively bad player. If I'm stomping anyone then it's definitely a problem. The fact is that matches are either stomp or be stomped. There's no real challenge.
Justin Martinez
She doesn't need any buffs, quite the opposite. Her abilities recharge too fast.
Ian Ortiz
What's that jutting out of Hanzo's dick space?
Jack Sanders
>man in full power armor: 500 HP >strongest woman in the world: 400 HP >Giant mech suit: 500 HP >armored gorilla: 500 HP
>fat guy running around drinking gasoline: 600 HP
Justin Robinson
because non-shitters joined, not because of you. you were probably carried
Camden Murphy
Wait, why do people care about forced 50% in quick play when there is a ranked mode coming out soonTM?
Evan Morris
After I decided to switch it up by placing my turret to cover flanking paths while I help my team with my rivet gun, occasionally fixing up the turret, I suddenly feel I am having a lot more fun and success as him
Isaac Jackson
The succubus Mercy skin, or Stoneheart Rein.
Levi James
Widowmakers ult is overpowered and should be reduced to a pulse every few seconds.
Just kidding Blizzard is god and will never touch her ebin sneaky wallhack ult.
Adam Sanders
If you are an objectively low skilled player, then the more matches you play the better the matchmaker will understand how bad you are, and be able to match you with equivalently low skilled players so that you have a 50% win rate, even with your low skill level.
Jaxon Jackson
>do this like 5 times in a row >this sends roadhog into a rage at my existence >memetastically abandons all teammates and objectives to chase me around the Hollywood map >huffs and puffs after me for a full 2 minutes >yakkety sax starts playing >he tries to flank me around a corner >PUSH OFF- this cliff right here >his next spawn he's a widowmaker
Hue. Huehue. HUEHUEHUE
Levi Howard
If there's anything they're good at even the haters admit, it's optimization.
Blizzard has realized that people who can't play your game won't buy it, so they try to make games that run on as many machines as possible.
Also since the engine was probably based on the titan engine, it was supposed to handle MMO level numbers of people with good performance, so with "only" 12 characters it probably runs amazingly well
Jeremiah Cooper
Literally any hero, stop shooting her shield mongoloids
Liam Morgan
I think the joke is that sitting a reinhardt and bastion on a payload is a good combo
Kayden Morgan
who /badgraphics/ here?
Bentley Phillips
Support means support. The game never says she's a healer.
Ayden Jenkins
wait a minute. The first panel is giving me an idea. What if Reinhardt could carry Bastion.
Samuel Campbell
Have some best ship
Justin Wilson
mfw I was about to capture the second point on Anubis but Jeff Kaplan suddenly bursts through my door, breaks all my fingers and throws my gaming mouse in a blender because my win rate was getting too high
Logan Powell
HOLY FUCK FINALLY I'M LEVEL 30
I CAN FINALLY START GETTING QUED INTO GAMES WITH PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO PLAY THE FUCKING GAME
I CAN FINALLY START PLAYING WITH COMPETENT PLAYERS
THANK CHRIST
Aiden Howard
>Say "Can someone please counter bastion or go support so I can" >Get told to stop being so toxic >Get 4 "ggez" from other team