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[Folly]

Finished my S4 placement matches with 5 wins, 3 losses, 2 draws. 1910 ranking.

[Man of Paper]

5/5, got 2189.

Then won two games which put me to 2303.

I've never had changes of more than the mid-30s at a time in previous seasons.

[IWishIWereSarah]

They clearly want bigger changes in the early season, especially as, if you have played in the previous seasons, they use your previous rank as a base for your new rank after placement matches

[Putnam]

Placed at 2220 or so, now I'm at 2525, cause it turns out when I play Lucio i just sort of win

[Leafsnail]

There's a hidden skill rating the game uses for matchmaking. If it's higher than your displayed rating you'll be put into harder games, and get more SR for wins since holding your own in those games implies you're better than your current displayed SR. I'm not entirely sure why they do this - maybe so more people get to see their number go up?

[Putnam]

I'm not entirely sure why they do this - maybe so more people get to see their number go up?

More like smurf protection. If the matchmaking algorithms are doing their job, everyone should have a ~50% winrate. The fact that my Lucio winrate (77.8%) is higher than DSPStanky's (51.4%) means that I'm not being placed in the right skill bracket, not that I'm better than Stanky, and the fact that I'm not in the right skill bracket should be fixed asap.

[Leafsnail]

Yeah that might be right. They want to get the smurfs away from genuine new players as fast as possible.

[Mephansteras]

Yeah that might be right. They want to get the smurfs away from genuine new players as fast as possible.

Makes sense. Nothing sucks the fun out of a competitive game more than being repeatedly stomped on.

[Man of Paper]

Regardless of the reasons for their decisions, while it feels great to see, I should not be seeing my SR go up by 85 points over the course of a single match. I had to take off my headset I saw in such disbelief. And I'm a lazy piece of shit, so that's something.

[EvilTwin]

There's some interesting changes in the PTR... Ana is super-nerfed, Zenyatta can discord through barriers and Junkrat doesn't damage himself anymore :O

[Mephansteras]

Just witnessed a Symettra pull a nasty team sabotage. Placed the teleporter to face right off a cliff so anyone using it died.

Made me feel bad about winning that one, although it was a quickmatch so...eh.

[Folly]

There's some interesting changes in the PTR... Ana is super-nerfed, Zenyatta can discord through barriers and Junkrat doesn't damage himself anymore :O

I do hope this is for an April-fools patch.

[Putnam]

They also buffed Lucio's wallride, sonic blast, projectile speed, and healing. ^{and also made his aura radius a third of what it was before}

[Folly]

They also nerfed his boop.
I'm going to miss useful Lucio.

[Neonivek]

They also nerfed his boop.
I'm going to miss useful Lucio.

Look Lucio isn't getting a tv contract, so he cannot be good.

(Goodness wouldn't it be hilarious if that actually happened... where characters are nerfed and buffed according to how much they want to push the character's popularity)