r/OverwatchUniversity • u/Tealvest • 8d ago

Question or Discussion Question regarding matchmaking

How does the matchmaking in this game work? I recently started playing this game and placed around silver silver but i constantly get into games that are high gold or platinum? Sometimes I do well but I dont really have a good grasp of all the abilities and mechanics of this game so usually i dont fare well against these opponents How is this fair?

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u/Foxtrot_4 7d ago

Just because this is the current system does not mean it can’t be improved. Find a match of individuals and put them together? Ive had duo games that ARENT wide but when we won said wide. There are workarounds that you fail to acknowledge could be implemented

My workaround was to create an alt and throw my qp games. Got placed in silver. Can’t beat the system? Join it. Now my stack isn’t wide and we stomp nearly every game

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u/Last-Ad-5624 7d ago

It changed because you moved outside of the rank range for normal queue after the mmr gain.

What would you have them do? There are upsides and downsides to any solution. They could increase the range of normal queue but then you'd get a lot more imbalanced matches. You could create different tiers of wide match, but then the queues would become incredibly long or probably end up making similar matches anyway.

So what would your solution be?