Originally Posted by
Kharadin
I don't see how any of that invalidates the fact that if you get good you will climb. Yeah, for sure, the area between gold and plat takes time to climb out of as I've said a thousand times before. It's particularly true of high plat (like, 2850ish I'd say but that's just from experience) to 3k but that's not because you have to carry, it just means you have to be good consistently. If anything, inconsistency is the trademark of plat and gold players, that's why they all think they're gods who deserve to be in higher ELOs because they ignore their bad games and blame their teams.
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I'm not sure I'd agree with disparate skill at the same SR necessarily, I guess it depends on your SR, down with the carbon tiers below 3k it's entirely reasonable to be playing with people who just don't care as much as you do and so have less game knowledge but potentially better mechanics, or something else that gets them to their SR.
On top of that people can just have off days, or like me decide to binge Overwatch with a hangover which is never good for my SR.
Autopiloting is another offence of plat players, sometimes I'll play Doom and notice I can get away with dumbass risky plays in one game and then for the next completely forget that I shouldn't be allowed to do that and accidentally feed away the first team fight.
I'm interested in that matchmaking bug though, do you play at off-peak times or something? I know the matchmaker increases the SR range over certain time-in-queue breakpoints which affects GM+ players particularly, I've seen T100 players get matched with low masters fairly often because of queue times and that skill range is gonna absolutely trump anything you could possibly see at diamond or below. So I could expect to see stuff like that if say, you're solo queuing DPS during off-peak hours.