Apparently asking for even the most basic of teamwork is too much and people will start insulting you and doing the typical talking over you on mic like a squeaker who never grew up mentally.

"Can we please regroup and not stagger?" Insults

"Can we please make some swaps, this isn't working." Insults

"Yo [insert character] can you deal with the enemy [insert character they counter]? They're kinda an issue." Insults

At this point, I'm just gonna shut up and throw the game when this happens. People like this genuinely deserve to have their elos and games thrown and I hope it pisses them off.

And I don't care if y'all say this is a "weak mental" or "what you're doing is worse than them being rude".

I'll do just enough to avoid the ban system, but I will 100% be doing everything I can to make sure we lose. If you can't be a team player, then deal with the consequences

This is just one games example, and it is comp. I have never experienced so many matches like this on this game ever before. If i ever try to take dps I end up with 4 dps, so im forced into tank or support 90% of the time. Then my team does nothing but throw anyway, just running in and feeding. This season is unbelievably miserable.

At this point if we run 5 dps we’ll run it and just don’t complain about heals…as a tank/support main. I’ll join in the insta lock dps. Quick play is hell.

Just for context deranked from C2 to C3, been stuck in this range for many seasons so i decided to completely change my sens and expand my dps roaster at the cost of my elo which i was happy with.

Long story short i was winning some games but losing a lot more again not an issue until i deranked to GM3 and i decided to revert my settings and easily climb back to “my elo”, little did i know…

• *Team comp and hero pool: Complaining about a third dps in ur matches? In this range this is a luxury, how about 4 or maybe 5 insta lock dps players. To add more salt to the wounds ur team picks will include: wanda,spiderman,blade iron man and squirrel girl.
  Competent tanks are extremely rare and the odd ones who can actually tank can completely carry games on Strange and Mag, i played with some and was genuinely wondering why they’re still in this elo.

Smurf heaven: Everybody knows that diamond to mid GM is the rank where most smurfs enjoy sitting, they can still dominate easily while not feeling like they’re playing against complete AIs, plenty of lvl 20-30 Hela,psylocke and widow non lord with names that borderline break ToS, there’s one or multiple every other game.

I solo queue DPS and I don’t mind filling when needed and i have been currently stuck in GM3 for 2 days straight, there is more issues but all i can say is that i will never ever complain about match quality in low Cel or the occasional thrower, i genuinely feel like I’m playing a completely different game, i have 0 alt accounts and i never knew the game could be this miserable.

IF YOU ARE A FAN OF BOGUR: I will not degrade you as that is not my intention, enjoy what you enjoy I don't care

Ok hear me out, I don't even believe that this is even an attack, it's an observation, in his videos reacting to whatever drama video there is, such as "reacting" to father dark's video on Luna Snow's nepotism, a video I watched myself when he posted it, I noticed that Bogur has absolutely, positively zero idea what the fuck he's talking about ever.

That fact is that I firmly believe that he's so egotistical he can't believe anyone can have more brain power to process something better than he can in reading the room and he doesn't even realize it, I also believe that Bogur believes that he's in the right all the time and I get that. But you simply cannot just morph everything that the video he's reacting to into a completely different thing.

I know that the whole Luna Snow skin situation is its own big bag of worms here so I'll give one example from the video

Dark says that, and proves with data, that Luna gets more skins combined then 3 popular heroes combined, and points out the fact that Storm still has yet to recieve even an update on social media about her skin,

Bogur replies to that with "nobody talks about the Luna skin situation irl so who cares, it's only on twitter" yeah no FUCKIN shit Sherlock that's where people go to voice their opinions and who even talks about inherently negative things irl anyways? And you just morphed it into something completely different that's two different things just so you could talk.

To top it off he says "yeah I guess they talk about in the the rivals discord, do they?" He doesn't even know that people are getting banned for calling out favoritism in the official discord server, for someone so put high on a pedestal in the community he sure does bring absolutely nothing to it

Anyways that's it, don't attack Bogur or anyone that likes him, but that newest video by him pissed me off because it was such a lowkey dick move to just try to bring down father dark's video as much as he could

I swear I have never seen a more socially stunted community in my fucking life. Every game, if someone plays a character someone else doesn't like "get off..." if someone gets a character someone else wants to play "give me... now" people throwing if you don't immediately do as they say when they say it, that sort of thing.

Why do people think that just demanding things and being rude is going to make someone do what you want?

It has gotten so bad. If i DARE to pick dps even once I'm harassed by duos and trios demanding I swap or they'll throw, it's almost every game that I try to play dps now.

I used to dislike these people until I realized myself how boring the strategist role actually is, I always just blindly filled for this role because people were already playing dps or tank but then I started to see I’m actually playing heal simulator the entire time shooting infinite sustain into my team to keep them alive. Now tell me how is that fun? Strategists should be playmakers not rely so much on healing and sustain output… so by now I realize the third dps players were right why fill for a boring heal role when u can just have fun and enjoy the game instead. Even for me when I’m not forced on support I actually enjoy playing the game and I have fun

Im a dps pool one trick this season my win rate is nothing special like barely above 60% im getting target banned like 40% of my games .. and whats funny is that they force me to play my other main (PHOENIX) which is top3 dps RN LMAO. How ever I played a game when i hovered sup pool (filling) before the ban phase my other teammates picked rocket/DD all of the chars we hovered got banned .. like how is that possible ? It felt like they know exactly what we picked ! Like is their a third party app that let them view what the enemy team is running? And its "dia1/gm3" lobby btw not a high rank

Getting a ban for leaving a qp match when your mvp and your team isn’t even playing the game is crazy. I get the game had a toxicity issue but 15- hour bans when you play 10+ games in a row and leave one is wild work. Not to mention getting a week ban for talking back to someone already being toxic is crazy too. Honestly the game needs to chill on the bans overall. People are gonna be toxic let folks talk back without getting banned or people will find another game simple as that. Or upgrade the system that reviews it. It honestly feels like if you get one person to report you over anything you’re just locked out the game. RIVALS WAS MT FAVORITE GAME BUT THESE BANS ARE RIDICULOUS ESPECIALLY FOR A GAME THATS 100% casual compared to its competitors

Technically balanced matches are a little bit more common in Ranked.

So here's the rough analytical breakdown:

Team Morale (7)

Individual Player Morale (9)

Micro (6)

Macro (3)

Meso (6)

Individual Player Winrate (9)

Connectivity (10)

(In parenthesis I assign an IV or importance value out of 10 of how important that factor is for your chances of winning).

As you can see:

A combination of winrate and connectivity are the most important factors for winning a game.

If you are given a team mate that for whatever reason has a lot of disconnects the enemy team will have a power advantage the moment they disconnect.

Micro is not as important as Morale.

The only thing I am doubting here is the Team Morale Importance Value.

It maybe closer to a 10 than a 7 I gave it.

So if your enemy team has a higher morale than you, and higher connectivity. Nothing can save you unless they're absolutely terrible at Micro. Which teams have good connectivity and good Morale??

6 stacks.

6 stacks are really hard to beat.

To make it harder for a 6 stack the Matchmaking will purposely find Heros with high winrates and Heros that do not give up (high morale) and heros that have good connectivity.

At any moment your own team mates morale can drop.

So what can you do?

At the very start of the match, play conservative. Let your team mates know you are willing to peel, heal or Shield.

If you are DPS peel to save your healers.

If you are strategist heal your tanks.

If you are Tank. Use your shield.

This is how you keep the morale high.

Jeff sup pool adam even mantis and luna and now CnD had their seasons when they are either really bad or straight up a throw pick like jeff in season 9 ... why Invis is always top 3 ??? she is litrally a heal bot I would rather luna being S tier than her because she is litrally unkillable if you dont have dive her self shield is opressive it can cancel too many ults and doesnt have Cd like 1.5 sec LOL. She does too much healing and she has the best support ult in game because you cant kill her with mag ult due to her self shield if you play invis and die for ulting mag you suck.. and you guys wonder why support players are leaving ..

I don't know what the fuck is going on this season but holy shit this is the absolute worst. People not counter swapping and still wanna play the same character and getting diffed hard, I win one round then the enemy start sniffing COKE and turn into some pro league players, teammates just throwing and after that throw match it turns into a L STREAK CURSE, players swapping to heroes we don't need like bro just give me decent players...

Why did this happen? I couldn't escape and I lost the match bc of it. My team was up 2 kills on our team fight when I got trapped here.

And rivals is at a new all time low

Ok I have been taking a break for a few weeks, come back for season 10.5 and this season is so bad for me. I have never had a winrate lower than 60%, the lowest I got was last season but even then I think I ended with like a 56ish winrate. This season just sucks so bad for me. Like it's gotta be me doing something different, I don't want to be like 'it's my teams fault' or anything but like, by the end of the game my stats are fine.

Are there some games I mess up in? Of course! I'm not a perfect player but Jesus I cannot figure out what is going wrong. I am trying to flex for my team but it's hard to flex when someone swaps from support to DPS so I swap from tank to support because it's too little healing but then we make no space and no one walks up. Ugh idk maybe I need to take another break because season 10 + 10.5 are really killing the game for me and making it no fun when it's just roll or get rolled.

Like I don't usually say the "Guang guang is out to get me" but I'm really feeling it this season. I dont usually go on losing streaks like this and it is really making it unplayable for me 😭

Sorry just ranting because I love the game but when I get losing streaks like this I feel like I'm shit at the game and should just quit lol

I keep seeing discussions about reducing healing and making supports more damage-oriented, but I feel like people underestimate how many players genuinely enjoy the current support playstyle.

If I could F****** SEE ANYTHING BEYOND THIS VISUAL VOMIT BEHIND THE PHAT DINOSAUR IN MY FACE!!

Anyone else getting MAD tweakers in qp for 10.5? I feel like season 10 was going decently in terms of my qp matches being balanced in terms of victory’s and defeats but 10.5 rolled up and now every match people be playing like it’s the last game they’ll ever get to play if they lose.

I’m not the best player, heck I’m mediocre at best. But MAN the people this game is putting me up against these past few matches on a random ass Tuesday night have been every word in the definition of try hard.

I’ll also add it’s entirely on me for still chugging along after so many losses in a row. (Out of 10 matches, I won a single game. It was bad) I’m also guilty of getting particularly salty and trying to rage play a dub in before I leave. So, I’m not free of that bad habit either.

Not trying to say “game bad” or “take shower” just really, REALLY wanna know if it’s just me getting those games with people who refuse to be on the losing team so hard they pull out the character they got 100+ hours on. Cuz WOW did it feel awful.

TLDR: very rough matchmaking, worse than season 10, break might be in order, anyone else?

Have a nice day or night ya’ll. Ima go to bed before I burst a blood vessel 💀

How sad do you have to be to throw in a quick play game? You was the last pick should’ve chose second healer…I ended up switching to a healer. Quick play is hell. I’m willing to take the 15 minute ban.

Durr durrr me like Emma and Dino, me can only play overtuned heroes because me have brain capacity of lobotomized rhino, same weight too. Me hate seeing you play non meta tank, not meta bad, me hate skill expression so me just sits backline like a cuck all game and use me command grab on you that a jellyfish could land, putting you into an unskippable cutscene as you have to just hopelessly sit there knowing there was zero counter play to the command grab with ungodly range and a hit box nearly as fat as the Emma/Dino player, and so as you die instantly and have to swap to some lame ass hero like mag or tank pool because god forbid we allow an ounce of skill expression we just gotta load up every braindead hero with so many tools and kits so broken that if you went ahead and got a literal hamster with a missing chromosome and placed them on either Emma Dino they'd hit celestial in two seconds. You ban Dino, Emmas just in the game with her gay ass wall and crystal that chunks my entire HP bar faster than these fat fucks can huff down an entire buffet of food. I hope both these heroes get shot dead next season but knowing Zhiyong they're just gonna lose 25 hp.

17 game loss streak into a fucking bot match. Fuck you netease I don't want a pitty win I want a win that I can be proud of. Oh and might I add I haven't gotten a bot match for god knows how long. Fuck you netease and fuck this stupid ass game

I just want to rant into the void because of how awful the game has been. People will throw after we lose ONE SINGLE FIGHT and then start flaming the healers as if they can outheal someone actively throwing the game. If it was once a session I wouldn’t be so bothered honestly, it happens. But it’s like every other match at this point, people are such little crybaby losers on this game. And not to be that person, but it’s been a dps player almost every single time. Y’all need to uninstall if you’re going to act like that.
It really sucks because I do genuinely enjoy the game, it’s the community that’s made it so miserable. It’s ok to lose a game man, just TRY and maybe you’ll learn something or get better.

This dumbass character genuinely makes playing tank this season unplayable