@DoYaSeeMe wrote:
Many of the no damage/ quick deaths in S5 happened with diamond and above teammates that forced me into battles empty handed. Is that SBMM? don't think so...
Let me break down my post and the data I'm referring to.
Season 5:
Total Games: 1.96k
Total Wins: 97 (4.95%)
Total Top 5s: 426 (21.7%)
DPG: 348.14
Highest: 2,888
Total Kills: 2,316
Deaths: 1,827
KDR: 1.26
Highest Kills: 14
Knockdowns: 2,820 (Conversion to kill rate: 80%)
Season 6:
Total Games: 368
Total Wins: 12 (3.26%)
Total Top 5s: 97 (26.3%)
DPG: 356.40
Highest: 1,666
Total Kills: 384
Deaths: 347
KDR: 1.10
Highest Kills: 7
Knockdowns:484 (Conversion to kill rate: 79.3%)
So let's break this down by asking some basic questions, obvious questions first:
- Why is the win rate percentage drastically lower? Because the opponents are harder. And to disprove any comments about "You just drop hot too much", look at the top 5 percentage; it's significantly higher than last season. Why? Because I'm not playing hot drops. I play to have kills and wins. I don't drop at Cap City or Sorting factory often. I know for damn near certain that a lot more of those top 5s were second place losses to much better teams. Again, why? Because typically speaking only the best teams make the top 5 and if I'm losing and getting second place a lot more, it's because the quality of teams are so much better than what I'd normally face.
- Damage Per Game...why is it higher than last season but KDR is less? Because I'm being more careful and measured but unable to actually wipe squads. I'm relying more on poke battles to boost evo and draw out the third parties rather than rushing hard for every encounter. I'm getting more damage as a result, but can't wipe squads because their survivability is so much higher when they are better teams. Let's face it, bots don't know how to survive. That's what makes them bots. They have movement skills, no positioning skills, no aim skills, and no idea of when to fight versus when to run and heal. Pro players or at least better players do. So the reason my KDR is down is because the quality of opponents I'm facing is so much higher. I have to thirst more to guarantee kills than I used to.
- Highest kills and Highest damage: Both are half or nearly half of what my best was last season. And I know I haven't had many games in the thousand damage range this season. I've had a lot of 500-800 damage games which is why my average is higher than last season. But I kid you not, most of the time I can't get more than 2 kills per game. I have only had one 7 kill game this season. ONE! I used to get 7-10 pretty much on a nightly basis but ever since season 6 that stopped completely. I'm really struggling to remember a six kill game at this point. I'm pretty sure my next highest game was 5 which is just absolutely bonkers to me because that used to be super common. Now it's hard for me to remember. WTF?
I'm open to other theories as to why my stats are so different but it's super clear to me as to why. Especially when there are intangibles that isn't represented in the data; such as how I am getting shredded from long range a lot more often and have to spend half the fight healing. You can typically feel and know when a player is better even if you happen to get the better of him. That's way more common for me this season than last. I felt very much in control last season and now I feel like I'm on my heels a lot of the time.
