When players group together, there’s the possibility that the group has a larger skill difference than a match we’d typically like to make. We love seeing you group up and have fun together because we believe Overwatch 2 is a game best shared with friends! Grouping up does, however, influence the matchmaker in a few different ways. This inherent variance in our individual performance means that the matchmaker needs the results of as many games as possible to get an accurate representation of your skill. We don’t always perform the same from game to game or even team fight to team fight. It’s also important to remember that our teammates are human.
Initial ranked matches can feel turbulent because many players return at the beginning of a season, and anything that changes player population is going to affect the matchmaker. Your MMR is unaffected when we lower your rank at the beginning of a season, and everyone in your matches has a similar MMR as you. We only adjust your MMR after you win or lose a game or if you come back after not playing for a long time. Likewise, the rank you see in a player’s profile isn’t the same as their MMR. We never use your outward facing skill tier or division to form matches. All our game modes, including Competitive, only look at MMR when forming a match. Your MMR will rise over time if you improve your skill and win more games against players of your current MMR level. You can see this in the example below that displays player MMR in quick play, with most of us right around the middle of the curve. This could indicate the general population is getting better or worse compared to you. However, MMR isn't an absolute value, meaning your MMR can change even if your personal skill stays the same. To do that, we need some approximation of each player’s skill.Įveryone has an internal matchmaking rating (MMR) that’s a numerical value to describe your skill relative to everyone else. Our matchmaker is designed to create balanced matches. In part 1, we talk about how the matchmaker works, some of the challenges we’ve faced, and some of the ways we’ve started to tackle those issues. In order to address your thoughts, we need to dissect the matchmaker and competitive systems separately before going into how they affect one another. We know matchmaking can be a source of frustration, especially in competitive, and we’d like to recognize it doesn’t always feel like it’s meeting its goal. Ultimately, the goal of matchmaker is to create as fair matches as possible across all game modes. In the first part of our two-part deep dive on matchmaking and competitive we’ll look at how matchmaking works under the hood and answer some outstanding questions around how MMR is determined and factored into the system.
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