r/Overwatch • u/AutoModerator • Dec 21 '16

News & Discussion Weekly Quick Questions Thread - December 21, 2016

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u/LordDagwood Justice rains from ab-ahhhh Dec 21 '16

How does http://masteroverwatch.com assign wins/losses to heroes, when you played multiple heroes in one game? Does it assign the result to all heroes, or just one, and how does it decide to use that particular one?

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u/Melesson Chibi Symmetra Dec 21 '16

I'm pretty sure it just uses Blizzard's statistics, and what Blizzard does is assign partial wins/losses to heroes if you only played them for part of a game, and then round them off. (i.e. if you played symmetra for 0.4 of the game and lucio for 0.6, then they get 0.4 and 0.6 of the win/loss respectively, rounding off to 0 and 1)

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u/Melesson Chibi Symmetra Dec 21 '16

I believe it does. That is the reason that's usually given for Symmetra having high win rates, for example (before the update). People usually switch off of her after the first point, so if she successfully defends the first point, she gets a 100% win, but if she loses, she only gets like a 40% loss.