Ima need an explanation
Tell me how tf I play these placement games and I get placed silver 3 😭🙏
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I got placed with ascendant and diamonds and I get placed silver 3 🤨
yeah cause enemies were on average plat for first game and u bot fragged
And game 2 u played good but ur not showing last 3 games
You mean gold 3 :val_Uhh:
Last played before thst was sept 2023 ☠️
And what was their rank back then
Plat 3
above explains it all pretty well but for future reference placements are more or less pre-determined by your previous episode rank. MMR is a lot more “sticky” in valorant compared to a game like CS with a modified glicko-2 system and aggressive rank deviation could let you place way higher or way lower than what your rank was before your rank expired (in CS’s case through inactivity). while in theory it’s possible to place a higher rank than what your MMR previously was, it’s very unlikely since ranks are generally artificially gapped behind what your MMR is in your placements since all players that previously occupied asc2-radiant are forced into asc1 or lower despite their MMR not changing. your previous rank is still the same it didn’t go anywhere it’s just hidden. this is why you might find you gain much more RR and lose much less after your placements/episode reset as the system tries to catch your MMR up with your visible rank
the wide rank deviation in the games you posted also demonstrates this as even though there is an asc1 and gold3 in the same lobby, the game matched up people with similar MMRs but widely different visible ranks
low population region/server also contributes to this. it’s possible your MMR wasn’t really all that close to them but longer queue times created looser tolerances in the matchmaking. who you get paired up with generally isn’t an accurate representation of the rank to expect in this case since val will always respect your choice of server compared to a game like COD which does not let you choose server and will gladly put you in 80-100ms ping games in order to group similar hidden MMR players together
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