How to escape Elo Hell?
In order to win games, you need competent teammates.
In order to get competent teammates, you need high MMR.
In order to get high MMR, you need to win games.
We have a vicious circle here. What should I do if I already have low MMR and only get matched with literal bots who die like flies? It's impossible for me to win with such teammates, and without winning my MMR will never get any higher, it will only continue to drop with every loss, giving me worse and worse teammates with every new game, thus making it more impossible to win a single game.
Lower mmr → worse teammates → harder to win → lower mmr → ...
What can I even do to escape this endless circle of losses and potato teammates, other than quitting soloQ survivor forever?
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Elo has been around 1 (one) day and we're already getting threads about elo hell LOL
It's the Heroes Of The Storm forums all over again
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Wait until the 16th when SBMM ends.
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Lower mmr → worse killer → easier to win → higher mmr → harder to win → ...
If you keep losing match after match and it doesn't seem like your mmr is moving down. You're either doing better than you think (you can pip even when you die, so theoretically you could score well on the mmr metrics even when you don't escape) or, you're just not that good in general.
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If your teammates are as bad as you’re saying, then the killer will also be very bad and you should be able to loop them for a long time, or survive long enough to outlast your teammates and get hatch/gates if you’re really as good as you think you are.
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IF it would work you would also play against bad killers, so getting bad mates wouldnt be that bad then.
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If you are familiar with DbD, you know perfectly well it's not how it works. A potato killer will always wipe the floor with potato survivors, because it takes much more time to learn how to loop than to learn how to follow survivors running in straight lines and hit them with a weapon. Almost every match at low ranks ends with 4k, it's a well known fact. So potato teammates will always doom you to fail, even if the killer is a cat walking on a keyboard.
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So you're not a potato survivor. That means you'll be able to loop the potato killer really well, and waste their time, while the potato survivors sit on gens.
If a potato survivors goes down, you can make the save.
You get a ton of chase, stun, distraction, rescue, heal and protection points, and you increase your mmr.
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Back to bronze 5 my duuuuudah
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"potato survivors sit on gens"
You have a contradiction here, try again.
Also, it's unknown what makes MMR goes up or down, so it can be like with emblems: if you loop the killer for 5 gens and die - you depip/lose MMR. Since we don't know the truth, we can only fear BHVR did the worst here.
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Thats why i created the Padawan Projekt in that game, but i am way to lazy to do that all over again.
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To be fair green ranks have always been considered the hell zone where people get trapped until they learn how to be a bit more emblem efficient in game.
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Green ranks were the best ranks idk wat you're talking about
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I guess there funny because you can see a lot of random ######### from your team mates and killer but that gets old after while
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Brown and yellow were for new people. Red is a fickle rank and purple was always where the most sweaty salty and toxic players are.
Green likes to party and have fun, you can't go wrong with green ranks.
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We don't know exactly how your MMR is calculated every game. I certainly don't live every game and I've been getting teammates from the comp scene here and there. I think there's a bit more that goes into it than just live or die
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There is a difference between being able to at least string some loops together and make a tough save that seemed necessary and not having a team that is competent enough to unhook you.
I'm better than my mostly meaningless rank because I nearly entirely stopped solo queue and the one person I play with isn't as good. Their lower rank makes the rest lower rank, it seems, most of the time. I can take the killer most of the way around the map without throwing all the pallets and then they give up for awhile. I'll bust some gens and whatever totems I find and save who I'm able only to wind up hooked late with a team that isn't able or is afraid(possibly unwilling) to save me on my first hook without my being camped.
I've tried the route of getting the attention sooner so I can help every way possible later one and increase the likelihood of 3 or 4 escapes and for my trouble I get camped and tunneled when I do get saved.
Damned no matter what unless I play with a squad of people I don't know. The last time I added a person I played with they got hooked first and went afk as the first hook of the game. I know because I saved them they stood there. I thought okay maybe they want to chance the killer not returning and have me heal under hook and I said alright I'll try to accommodate my new friend. They were downed under and died on that same hook.
Solo play should have slightly different metrics for skill assessment than squad play.
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