Guild Wars 2

I hadn’t pvp’d much in a year, and then on Friday decided I wanted to try and get some tickets to start the backpiece. Here’s what happened:

Amber League: ~60% win rate, slow but steady progress.
Emerald League: ~55% win rate until I got to t3.

At Emerald t3 I stopped solo-queuing and joined a team with some guildies who are ruby/diamond. We played a few games, lost more than we won, barely got me to Emerald t4, and then I went back to solo queue.

And in Emerald t4 I have played 35 games and won 6 of them, never more than 2 in a row. My worst streak was losing 14 straight.

I’ve seen on the forums that people are having issues with being in “mmr hell” and I saw that one guy with his statistical model of what was going on. I’m not going to claim to be a good pvp player. I’m still new to it, using builds from metabattle. But I can’t help but think that something very wrong happened to my mmr because of the drastic difference in my win rates from before I teamed up with my guildies and after. All I wanted was to get to sapphire, but it looks like I won’t this season.

Again, because I know the “git gud” crowd is going to yell at me, I’m not claiming I’m a really good player. Yes, I still need practice. But why the immediate and drastic difference in win rate? You’d expect it to slowly level off to 50% once I was at the proper level, not suddenly drop off a cliff, right?

It could be the difference between being the worst player on a winning team and the best player on a losing team. Could also be it is the last weekend of the season so people that started late or playing alts came in and farmed you. In my experience it seems to vary. I’ll get long win streaks and then get periods where I have loss streaks. Since they hide the math from you, all you can do is speculate.

The OP, like many others is experiencing the unfair finger from the server. Many people are reporting the exact same thing. Take it seriously as something really is wrong with the epic 20+ lose streaks.

I really wish they would just display your MMR, because this guessing game isnt doing a whole lot for motivation.

nothing rare, teams are paired considering the league of higher player, you are emeralds, rubis and one diamond playing whith diamonds, this time not is mmr or mmr hell, are you making a dispar team

megilandil.7506:

nothing rare, teams are paired considering the league of higher player, you are emeralds, rubis and one diamond playing whith diamonds, this time not is mmr or mmr hell, are you making a dispar team

I think you missed the point. It was not about losing in diamond, it was about losing in emerald after losing in diamond.

I think the example of the OP is a quite nice illustration of how team-queueing influences mmr. Let us say that the mmr used to be 1500. Then the player lost mmr during his matches in diamond. His new mmr is 1000 (assumption). Now he gets matched with other 1000-players against his former team-mates with 1500. I think the outcome is predictable. I can fully understand when the OP simply stops playing ranked this season (its almost over anyway).

Important to add: I have not enough information to say that my story is right. It is just a plausible explanation of the phenomenon.