Although Junkrat has always been a borderline meme hero, his high damage potential makes him a pretty favorite choice among the players — especially when there is a choke-point on the map (ex. Temple Of Anubis, King’s Row). The damage he can produce in a small area is a real threat...
Well, we don’t know exactly as Blizzard doesn’t share that information regularly. However, the best indication we have is a post from creative director Jeff Kaplan in 2018. In it, he gave a breakdown of the number of players in each tier. The 2018 rank distribution in Overwatch was: ...
Overwatch 2 Rank Distribution: What percentage of the player base is each rank? Bronze: 10.2% Silver: 19.2% (Above 10.2% of players) Gold: 26.7% (Above 29.4% of players) Platinum: 26.2% (Above 56.1% of players) Diamond: 12.2% (Above 82.3% of players) ...
Within each rank there are higher percentages of these four types. For instance bronze and silver are predominantly the the latter 2, and Master and Grandmaster are predominantly the former 2. This makes it really hard in the middle and lower ranks for players to feel like they “belong” ...
Track how much progress you’ve made toward the next skill division. Understanding the percentage of progress gained or lost after each match, along with the rank modifiers that impact your progression, is crucial for strategizing your climb effectively. ...
Several months back we implemented a restriction that prevents the matchmaker from creating games that are severely one-sided. Whenever it wants to make a game, it calculates an expected win percentage for each team based on the SR of all the players. If one of the teams doesn’t have at...
only required 25 games to be completed regardless of winning prior to becoming eligible for the Top 500 leaderboards; however, this change should help make sure that players are consistently pushing toward winning matches, which should help ensure the leaderboards have the best players in each ...
This stun time reduction applies to the knockdown that happens when two charging abilities collide and result in a tie (with Reinhardt, Doomfist, Brigitte, Mauga, Bob). The counterplay and interaction of two charging abilities impacting each other is great, but it took both players out of the...
The problem of boosted players is huge, and blizzard thinks so too. Poorly skilled players are being kept in their boosted ranks near or close to diamond, and in other ranks, thanks to highly skilled players duking it out at every single rank during prime-time and not advancing, since matc...
Overwatch’s designers say they “balance” matches with MMR. The system sorts the twelve players from each match into teams, based on the merit each player has shown in matches past. Matchmaking uses merit-tracking algorithms (MMR) to keep matches from being ‘uneven.’ Principal Overwatch ...