Overwatch is one of my favorite games without a doubt, but the matchmaking in this game is broken and needs to be improved. I’m not new to the game, as I’ve played since OW1, and I’m not claiming to be good. I’m an average adult, I work 8-10 hours a day and come home and play for a few hours. My issue with the game, is this game is genuinely near impossible to succeed in as a solo-queue. You must have friends, you have to have a team going into every game, or you’ll be doomed to fail. In my situation, I don’t ever have a team or friends to play with. All of my friends don’t enjoy Overwatch and play other games, and I work a lot so don’t have time to meet too many people. I end up solo-queing most of the time, and it leads to a frustrating time. I’ve said this many times to other players, if I were to create a pie chart of how games go in Overwatch, a good 60% of games, you will be absolutely getting rolled. Most of my games will end with at least 3 of my opponents getting 20-30 kills, and I’ll be lucky to have 3 of my teammates with double digit kills. This is my first season reaching platinum, (I didn’t say I was good just average), and it seems no matter what role I play I’m always attempting to carry my team of randoms. The next 30% of games you play, your team will be absolutely rolling the enemy team, and it feels as if you’re a skilled team playing against a team of new players. And I feel maybe lastly 10% of my games have been even competition, on a fair playing field and even matchups. I’ve attempted many times to find looking for group posts and they’ve been hit or miss. Do I just need to find the time to set aside and meet decent players of similar skill I can play with? Perhaps I just need to make friends. Either way, I feel there could be improvements made within the matchmaking, maybe based on your performance or skill to build better team compositions and make games more fair and even.
Honestly the broken matchmaking has done wonders for my ego. It’s nice to be tank diffing someone and then see the “grandmaster challenger” under their name. It’s proved to be more than anything that there are good and bad players in EVERY rank and climbing doesn’t necessarily mean you’re good.