I've played tons of video games over the years, "ranks" are complete BS, amirite?

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 Terrydonna 1 week ago

Imagine playing StarCraft and having OP's opinion.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Had an old roommate who played at over 200 apm. I never stood a chance lol

by Familiar_Aioli_402 1 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_402 1 week ago

My brother was a GM and he could legit 1 v 6 our joint friend group with ease.

by Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

Brother has never played counter strike apparently

by Some_Preparation_139 1 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_Table6644 1 week ago

Neither do RTS games

by Anonymous 1 week ago

OP never got out of bronze

by Terrydonna 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

HA! might as well play with a trackpad

by Terrydonna 1 week ago

My ranked teammates

by reinakessler 1 week ago

This might be the funniest thing ive read in a week

by Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

It's not unpopular it's just not right

by Anonymous 1 week ago

id say that, in this situation, it's unpopular because it's wrong. yes.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

There isn't an even an opinion here. It's just a claim, one that's obviously false.

by Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 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-2546 1 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 Anonymous 1 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_Eye 1 week ago

your right this is definitely unpopular because it's wrong

by rexhuels 1 week ago

Sounds like a dunning Kruger to me.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Guy's never played rocket league apparently. The skill gap is so vast it's like looking into a void lol.

by Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

Learn. Paragraphs.

by No_Statement 1 week ago

Found the carry

by Snitzsche 1 week ago

Nah u just noob

by Anonymous 1 week ago

A "sometimes lucky" noob…

by Anonymous 1 week ago

This is legit like saying professional athletes are no better than some sunday league scrub.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I haven't played many games but in the ones i have played this is completely wrong.

by Old-Dog 1 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-Vegetable 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

Small differences can add up across all aspects of the game.

by goodwinkeyshawn 1 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_Assumption 1 week ago

That's just simply not true for any game that has a correctly implemented ranking system.

by Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

This is simply not true. Higher ranks require higher game knowledge and mehanical skills.

by One_Round8888 1 week ago

Some games set ranks based only on total experience not on ratios so yeah you're right

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah a bronze lvl Starcraft player is basically the same as a Grand Master. /s

by Anonymous 1 week ago

This has got to be the most incorrect opinion I have ever seen, kudos.

by Fine_Air_672 1 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 Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

My brother in Christ Brawlhalla would have you in psych ward

by obie05 1 week ago

OP never experienced the bizarrely huge skill curve of dead by daylight

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Hehe. This really triggered the hardcore gamers

by Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 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_9951 1 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 Averyswift 1 week ago

This is just wrong. The cope is insane lmao

by SirPowerful 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

this makes no sense?

by zoreilly 1 week ago

What?

by Actual_Soil_1300 1 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_Sun 1 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 shilpert 1 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 Jimmyfeil 1 week ago

lol cool. You out to much focus on something that needs none "cope" lol

by shilpert 1 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.

by Jimmyfeil 1 week ago