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Originally Posted by abysmal01
If you're not taking damage cap into account you're just playing badly. The problem the damage cap was put in to solve was that people could take 25 on certain hero's spike turns or with random spawn rng, it wasn't supposed to smooth the wr between good and bad heroes. If you think there are other core issues in the game then fine but the damage cap wasn't put in to fix them.
That's not how BGs mmr works at all. Don't talk so confidently about something you know nothing about, it only makes you look stupid in the long run. The top ranked bgs players are getting at least 20 points less per placement every game than the lowest mmr players in their lobby.
When I came back to the game towards the end of last season I split 3.5 in a lobby with xqn who was rank 1 eu and I saw on the vod he got -1 while i got like +25.
If you gave a random 7k player a 12k player's account i'd bet they'd drop below 10k within 100 games.
Getting hit for 25 was caused by hero imbalances. Duh... You weren't getting hit for large amounts from a great number of heroes. You're gonna get hit for 15 from the same heroes as before and have your game ruined if you're not on a good hero.
And, yes, that's exactly how BG mmr works. Go play other games and actually learn something instead of making stupid arguments and acting like a snowflake (probably because you think your external rating is something to be proud of). In most games with ELO and mmr systems people get stuck at ratings until they improve. It doesn't happen in BGs, all you need is to play more and pick good heroes consistently. There were 13k players who would routinely make bad plays (positioning and letting their time run out because they were dicking around) on their streams somewhat and are inferior to dog and some other players last season. They're 13k because the system is a grind and not based on skill. It doesn't matter if your ratings diminish at the top end or not.
Guess what happened 2 or 3 resets ago? I was in the top 25 and keeping pace with dog while playing and sleeping relatively the same amount of time as him for the first couple of days. Am I better than dog or a lot of players? No. That stuff happens the system is a grind and not skill based.
You sound like a Blizzard fanboy who hasn't played other competitive games to realize why their balance and rating systems blow.