Post by fafnir on Jan 20, 2015 14:45:30 GMT
Jan 18, 2015 23:21:25 GMT Vix said:
So here's my quick thoughts on getting stuck in low-ish MMR. I know I've heard about those 5k players who take a 1k MMR account and make it into lets say 3k or 4k. Then people argue "oh theres no such thing as a trench because look, this guy made it out"
But I feel that if you think you have reached a 2k or 3k skill level you still can't and wont be able to raise your MMR out of your calibrated 1k because even though you're better than what your MMR is at, you'r still not a 4k or 5k player that can get past obstacles that are out of your hands, like teammates feeding, or no supports/wards/cour/etc.
Meanwhile Joe is I think 2950 last I saw, and I can't say he's any worse than I am (though we are better at different roles). That 200-300 points isn't much difference.
Everyone else has the same obstacles as you, no one has a monopoly on feeding team mates and bad or no supports. If you are a thousand points better than what your ranking says then if you play enough ranked games, you'll move up. Enough games is the tricky bit, because enough means a lot of games. Probably 100 or so, and that's a lot of time. That's a months worth of playing for a lot of people.
In a months time you can regress skillwise, or the heroes your good with could have faded out of the meta and that's made it harder for you to win. (or just gotten nuke nerfed). I used to win a lot of ranked games with DP mid, harder to do that now.
