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I've played tons of video games over the years, "ranks" are complete BS, amirite?
by Left-Ad1 week ago
youre objectively incorrect a difference in mechanical skill between certain ranks may be small, but game knowledge is supremely important at higher levels, regardless of the game. in the aggregate, skill differences are MUCH bigger than you think they are
by Terrydonna1 week ago
Imagine playing StarCraft and having OP's opinion.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Had an old roommate who played at over 200 apm. I never stood a chance lol
by Familiar_Aioli_4021 week ago
Dude was glued to his PC. If he wasn't in class, drinking or playing rugby it's all he did
by Familiar_Aioli_4021 week ago
My brother was a GM and he could legit 1 v 6 our joint friend group with ease.
by Anonymous1 week ago
I don't know what games you're playing but most Competitive Shooters I've played do not follow this rhetoric at all, and none of the MOBAs do
by Anonymous1 week ago
Brother has never played counter strike apparently
by Some_Preparation_1391 week ago
Or rainbow. I got good aim at CSGO and Pubg. When I played rainbow with friends, I kept getting gangbang from wall, window and floor. To the point I was in a corner camping stair.
by Similar_Table66441 week ago
Neither do RTS games
by Anonymous1 week ago
OP never got out of bronze
by Terrydonna1 week ago
Peak bronze 2 Valorant player here - I somehow got placed in an Iron 3 lobby last night, and I dropped 32 kills. The next highest fragger in the lobby had 17. The difference in 2 tiers alone is insane.
by Anonymous1 week ago
HA! might as well play with a trackpad
by Terrydonna1 week ago
My ranked teammates
by reinakessler1 week ago
This might be the funniest thing ive read in a week
by Anonymous1 week ago
You almost had me in the title, but you're wrong. There are factors of luck when it comes to rank, but overall, I think most games have a good system. Most people don't really care and won't apply themselves. They may not have a good system or poor internet. Poor head space. Distracting surroundings.
by Anonymous1 week ago
It's not unpopular it's just not right
by Anonymous1 week ago
id say that, in this situation, it's unpopular because it's wrong. yes.
by Anonymous1 week ago
There isn't an even an opinion here. It's just a claim, one that's obviously false.
by Anonymous1 week ago
If you do bad your rank goes down. If you do good your rank goes up. Rank = skill unless you're cheating.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Well, that's the thing. If you suck but your teammates don't, then you will be placed higher than what your skill actually is.
by Any-You-25461 week ago
Right, and over a reasonable sample size of games the times you get carried and carry will even out to make it a less important factor than your ability to enable a win. This also only applies to team based games like league or CS. This wouldn't even be a factor for like Star raft.
by Anonymous1 week ago
If you only ever play one match in your career, or only ever play with one group, sure. Over the long term, you'll be matched with as many good teammates as bad teammates, so it all evens out, and the differentiator is your contribution. This is why so many games require 10-20 matches before you get a rank in the first place.
by Leading_Eye1 week ago
your right this is definitely unpopular because it's wrong
by rexhuels1 week ago
Sounds like a dunning Kruger to me.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Guy's never played rocket league apparently. The skill gap is so vast it's like looking into a void lol.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Did you really just generalize all video games together and say all of their ranking systems are complete bs? Wow. I think I've lost braincells just reading your username.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Be me Get to level 15 in Chivalry, getting bored with low-level play, excited to start learning to play the game against more experienced players Join my first 15+ match Repeatedly get sniped by crossbowmen or cut in half by naked dudes sprinting across the map with 2-handed swords and having seizures while staring at the ground lmao
by Anonymous1 week ago
Learn. Paragraphs.
by No_Statement1 week ago
Found the carry
by Snitzsche1 week ago
Nah u just noob
by Anonymous1 week ago
A "sometimes lucky" noob…
by Anonymous1 week ago
This is legit like saying professional athletes are no better than some sunday league scrub.
by Anonymous1 week ago
I haven't played many games but in the ones i have played this is completely wrong.
by Old-Dog1 week ago
Maybe if you said you mostly get rank by grinding is true...but you still need to get better and learn tactics to get into positions to be lucky or grind enough to get up. It takes game sense and awareness which 80 percent of people lack
by Dense-Vegetable1 week ago
Statistics are real, pal. Sometimes statistics can be measuring the wrong thing, or there can be something that it's not measuring, but if you consistently win a game against someone, and you're not cheating, you are better at the game than they are. There's no amount of reasoning that will get you around that. Are there edge cases, like you always play with your little brother on the same team and he's not as good as you? Sure. And it varies a little depending on the game, but for the vast majority, if you consistently lose you go down in rank, and if you consistently win you go up. I don't see how luck plays a big role there. Your real skill level is determined over time.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Small differences can add up across all aspects of the game.
by goodwinkeyshawn1 week ago
In my experience its that those that are in higher ranks are toxic sweats that care more about winning than actually having fun, and that most players now days will do absolutely everything they can to step on you in order to get a higher up position. Even if it means cheating, abusing mechanics, or playing in a way that makes the game boring, tedius, and annoying to play. I've never been much for competitive games as a result of this
by Candid_Assumption1 week ago
That's just simply not true for any game that has a correctly implemented ranking system.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Yeah I beg to disagree. I was a quite dedicated rocket league player, and let me tell you - the difference is huge. For each of 8 ranks, every higher rank can win a 1v2 against a lower rank, and the teams are usually 2-3 players in ranked. I could easily 1v7 players from four ranks below
by Anonymous1 week ago
This is simply not true. Higher ranks require higher game knowledge and mehanical skills.
by One_Round88881 week ago
Some games set ranks based only on total experience not on ratios so yeah you're right
by Anonymous1 week ago
Yeah a bronze lvl Starcraft player is basically the same as a Grand Master. /s
by Anonymous1 week ago
This has got to be the most incorrect opinion I have ever seen, kudos.
by Fine_Air_6721 week ago
There are no fair and efficient ways to give players a fair rank of their skills. So, to automate it we get these ladder rank system. They do not constitute a reflection of pure skill, often just win rate. Especially hard in multiple player games where you just cannot get a proper rank of your own skill since you are dependent on your teams performance too. It's just how it is.
by Anonymous1 week ago
It depends on what game you play for sure, but in general the difference between skill can be bigger at the lower ranks and then gets smaller at the high ranks. And in those higher ranks it's less a difference between straight mechanical skill (aim, combos, etc.) and more game knowledge and strategy. Keep coping, op
by Anonymous1 week ago
My brother in Christ Brawlhalla would have you in psych ward
by obie051 week ago
OP never experienced the bizarrely huge skill curve of dead by daylight
by Anonymous1 week ago
Hehe. This really triggered the hardcore gamers
by Anonymous1 week ago
OP is one of those people that believes their in elo hell and that the skill difference of them(bronze) is not that much different from a diamond or higher
by Anonymous1 week ago
In unpopular games and server regions its true but not in most played games in the most played servers. W I Wish that someday we would have a starlink like satellite that combines more servers into one.
by Ok_Ambition_99511 week ago
Gotta agree with the other people... place a Challenger LoL player in a lobby with anything below Master and they will stomp 99% of the time
by Averyswift1 week ago
This is just wrong. The cope is insane lmao
by SirPowerful1 week ago
Idk if it's cope but you're wrong. The difference in skill can be huge. A pro CS player can take on 5 normy players. The skill difference in League from Bronze to Diamond is insane too, just the knowledge of the game and timing alone is an incredible advantage.
by Anonymous1 week ago
this makes no sense?
by zoreilly1 week ago
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by Actual_Soil_13001 week ago
Oof.. its about averages, not one game lol. He will go on to win his next 3 and keep going up, even with ppl like you here and there. The fact that you cant grasp this probably ties in to why you aren't able to progress
by Equivalent_Sun1 week ago
Like 90% of games with ranks are just playtime. Like I have a high rank in cod/gets because I play it a lot, not that im good.
by shilpert1 week ago
Literally the only ranked game I've ever played where this is true is CoD. League, cs, Dota, apex, seige, every other game this is a cope for.
by Jimmyfeil1 week ago
lol cool. You out to much focus on something that needs none "cope" lol
by shilpert1 week ago
Huh, I'm not focusing on anything I'm just saying every game with ranks other than cod ranks pretty clearly are indicative of skill.
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