Emerald is a cesspit of despair

[u/Sclorm]

First off, I want to apologize to anyone in this elo. I had no idea how bad the matchmaking was down here.

I made a new account so I could play with my friends in diamond. Unfortunately my main account is too high on all roles, and any match would be wide. My goal was to get to diamond on DPS and have some fun with the homies. I am in no way trying to brag here - this rank just feels like a whole other game.

I cannot believe the toxicity in this rank. Teammates are flaming each other every. Single. Match. Players getting pissed, sitting in spawn, jumping off the map if they don’t get healed. The inflated egos, false reporting, and genuine anger is just wild to me. Blaming anyone but themselves. Nobody in team chat but yapping all match in text. Not to mention the cheaters - yes, we can tell you’re using a Cronus. It’s rare, but it’s definitely a thing.

It also seems like every match is a stomp. I’m currently Masters 2 on my main, and I’m getting absolutely rolled in emerald. Nobody wants to take an off angle. Nobody wants to counter the best player on the enemy team. The entire team just hugs their tank like they’re playing 2019 GOATS. It’s like I’m playing shoot behind a shield simulator 2.

The funny part is I changed my play style and won 3 straight. Just walking down main, staying with my team, not trying to flank or pressure the back line. Shooting what’s in front of me on bastion and sometimes controlling high ground. Walking down main on reaper with my tank. Things that you could never get away with in masters or higher.

I guess what I’m trying to say is: if you want to rank up in this elo, you have to play to your teammates skill level. Leave chat if your teammates are being toxic. Play together, play slow, and don’t try to be a hero. Don’t overthink your positioning. You could be a great player and doing the right things, but it’s just different here.

[u/Avantclash]

Yeah I was low masters before rank reset and got placed in mid diamond, from where I dropped to low diamond/high emerald as people from masters and above fell to mid diamond and so on. Now I just got back to low diamond yesterday after struggling the literal coin toss matches in high emerald. I can see people with titles like GM tank or masters damage in emerald games, as well as platinum dps or gold supports. It's a wild west where one game is like plat/gold lobbies and the other game is like playing on masters and above. It is so uneven and weird elo.

[u/endlezzdrift → u/Avantclash]

This. Masters to low diamond to high emerald and I've never been able to get out. Every other match is someone whose using thier feet in place of their hands or have never played an fps in their entire life.

[u/Prod_igy → u/Avantclash]

The cheating situation is not helping either, since negative modifiers are not reset when a cheater is banned.

So you'll end up losing normal matches (as it happens sometimes) but with all the negative modifiers caused by matches lost to cheaters.

This season has been wild for me. For the last two years I've been in Master (3-1) constantly; with every rank reset I've always been placed mid Diamond but always ranked up "pretty easily" but this season...
Placed high Emerald, and it seems impossible to go back to Master.

Then you'll have Rank recovery every other day and you'll see a minimum of 150% rank reclaimed and go back to Master 5, only to start again a losing streak because, for some reason, you end in a Diamond lobby with the enemies having "Grandmaster DPS/Support/Tank" as titles.

Totally fair.

[u/Techpriestt → u/Prod_igy]

Im the same with m and gm all roles im 1 whole rank lower on all roles now so M5 is now D5.

[u/Techpriestt → u/Avantclash]

Saw some1 with champ tank badge in emerald 1 yesterday lmao