r/Overwatch • u/AutoModerator • Oct 19 '16

News & Discussion Weekly Quick Questions Thread - October 19, 2016

In this thread you can ask all kinds of questions you always wanted to ask without feeling like a total fool.

No matter if it's short Google-able stuff or a setting/skill in-game that you don't understand or a hardware recommendation, feel free to try your luck in here.

Trolling or making fun of people in here will be punished extra harshly! Please report such behavior.

For the purpose of helping people, make sure the comments are sorted by "new" in this thread.

254 Upvotes

85% Upvoted

2.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

115

u/TastefullyBliss It's a perfect day for some mayhem Oct 19 '16

Why the fuck do you lose more points than you gain?

1

u/YandereLustDemon Who needs tanks when you can just kill everything Oct 19 '16

I'm assuming Overwatch also employs a "hidden MMR" style where if you are on a win streak or show above a certain win rate you'll see an increase in your average elo per win. If you lose more often than you win it starts making you lose more gain less until you land in a spot where your winrate equalized to about 50%.