Ben Grimm wrote: I just had a ton of fun climbing to 800. I tried using pretty much my entire A-list - which is 15 characters, 5 2*s, 10 3*s, all 81st level - and managed to use all of them except OBW, who I couldn't (duh), and a handful I forgot about (Doom, Rags, and, oddly, Hulk, who I had planned to). I even used Daredevil
walkyourpath wrote: kidicarus wrote: Walala84 wrote: Bowgentle wrote: The MMR bubble is horrible in this. Usually there's at least some randoms thrown in, this time it's The Ladder / Bubbleboy / Walala / SongCn at every skip past 550. Haven't had that before 850 in a long while, wonder if they changed something in the algorithm. I'm curious about this too....I'm seeing bubbleboy and mostly 141s in my queue now but then again I'm pretty high in the points. This either means: I'm in MMR hell i.e. too high I'm in MMR heaven but I've gone too low so I'm seeing the top players These are the few guys close to my rating so MMR makes little difference The bolded item is probably it and the fact that there's no one in your point range with the same MMR. I was doing an early push yesterday and some of the above names popped up. So I went and won some shield training rounds and tried untanking! There is a slight difference now but that's also probably because more people have made pushes. I've played around with this a bunch and I actually believe it's the third. It usually starts around 700-900 points. Tanking/untanking might shake up your matchups a bit, but they'll all still be tough. Essentially at the higher point values, there's not a large enough population to make MMR a relevant factor.
kidicarus wrote: Walala84 wrote: Bowgentle wrote: The MMR bubble is horrible in this. Usually there's at least some randoms thrown in, this time it's The Ladder / Bubbleboy / Walala / SongCn at every skip past 550. Haven't had that before 850 in a long while, wonder if they changed something in the algorithm. I'm curious about this too....I'm seeing bubbleboy and mostly 141s in my queue now but then again I'm pretty high in the points. This either means: I'm in MMR hell i.e. too high I'm in MMR heaven but I've gone too low so I'm seeing the top players These are the few guys close to my rating so MMR makes little difference The bolded item is probably it and the fact that there's no one in your point range with the same MMR. I was doing an early push yesterday and some of the above names popped up. So I went and won some shield training rounds and tried untanking! There is a slight difference now but that's also probably because more people have made pushes.
Walala84 wrote: Bowgentle wrote: The MMR bubble is horrible in this. Usually there's at least some randoms thrown in, this time it's The Ladder / Bubbleboy / Walala / SongCn at every skip past 550. Haven't had that before 850 in a long while, wonder if they changed something in the algorithm. I'm curious about this too....I'm seeing bubbleboy and mostly 141s in my queue now but then again I'm pretty high in the points. This either means: I'm in MMR hell i.e. too high I'm in MMR heaven but I've gone too low so I'm seeing the top players These are the few guys close to my rating so MMR makes little difference
Bowgentle wrote: The MMR bubble is horrible in this. Usually there's at least some randoms thrown in, this time it's The Ladder / Bubbleboy / Walala / SongCn at every skip past 550. Haven't had that before 850 in a long while, wonder if they changed something in the algorithm.
mags1587 wrote: Ben Grimm wrote: I just had a ton of fun climbing to 800. I tried using pretty much my entire A-list - which is 15 characters, 5 2*s, 10 3*s, all 81st level - and managed to use all of them except OBW, who I couldn't (duh), and a handful I forgot about (Doom, Rags, and, oddly, Hulk, who I had planned to). I even used Daredevil I think I may have hit you on my way up to 800. Either that or someone else is running Daredevil on a team. I had a moment of "wait, really?" before shrugging and taking the points.
Nemek wrote: walkyourpath wrote: kidicarus wrote: Walala84 wrote: I'm curious about this too....I'm seeing bubbleboy and mostly 141s in my queue now but then again I'm pretty high in the points. This either means: I'm in MMR hell i.e. too high I'm in MMR heaven but I've gone too low so I'm seeing the top players These are the few guys close to my rating so MMR makes little difference The bolded item is probably it and the fact that there's no one in your point range with the same MMR. I was doing an early push yesterday and some of the above names popped up. So I went and won some shield training rounds and tried untanking! There is a slight difference now but that's also probably because more people have made pushes. I've played around with this a bunch and I actually believe it's the third. It usually starts around 700-900 points. Tanking/untanking might shake up your matchups a bit, but they'll all still be tough. Essentially at the higher point values, there's not a large enough population to make MMR a relevant factor. It's almost definitely this. The number of players that are 900+ and not shielded is very small. Those people will likely be the only ones that will show up.
walkyourpath wrote: kidicarus wrote: Walala84 wrote: I'm curious about this too....I'm seeing bubbleboy and mostly 141s in my queue now but then again I'm pretty high in the points. This either means: I'm in MMR hell i.e. too high I'm in MMR heaven but I've gone too low so I'm seeing the top players These are the few guys close to my rating so MMR makes little difference The bolded item is probably it and the fact that there's no one in your point range with the same MMR. I was doing an early push yesterday and some of the above names popped up. So I went and won some shield training rounds and tried untanking! There is a slight difference now but that's also probably because more people have made pushes. I've played around with this a bunch and I actually believe it's the third. It usually starts around 700-900 points. Tanking/untanking might shake up your matchups a bit, but they'll all still be tough. Essentially at the higher point values, there's not a large enough population to make MMR a relevant factor.
kidicarus wrote: Walala84 wrote: I'm curious about this too....I'm seeing bubbleboy and mostly 141s in my queue now but then again I'm pretty high in the points. This either means: I'm in MMR hell i.e. too high I'm in MMR heaven but I've gone too low so I'm seeing the top players These are the few guys close to my rating so MMR makes little difference The bolded item is probably it and the fact that there's no one in your point range with the same MMR. I was doing an early push yesterday and some of the above names popped up. So I went and won some shield training rounds and tried untanking! There is a slight difference now but that's also probably because more people have made pushes.
Walala84 wrote: I'm curious about this too....I'm seeing bubbleboy and mostly 141s in my queue now but then again I'm pretty high in the points. This either means: I'm in MMR hell i.e. too high I'm in MMR heaven but I've gone too low so I'm seeing the top players These are the few guys close to my rating so MMR makes little difference
Bacon Pants wrote: I keep missing all of you Shield fella's, and that's fine by me. It's a bummer to come out of a match and see that you were hit twice for -80. Oh well, shielding up for the night and hoping my score will still be good for first in the AM.
mags1587 wrote: Bacon Pants wrote: I keep missing all of you Shield fella's, and that's fine by me. It's a bummer to come out of a match and see that you were hit twice for -80. Oh well, shielding up for the night and hoping my score will still be good for first in the AM. You do realize you just jinxed yourself, don't you? Next PvP you'll have 2 or 3 of them in your bracket.
locked wrote: ^ Oh come on, I have a 3/4/2 GSBW and the only thing she does is feed green to Punisher. In LazyThor or Panther tourneys, people have been able to place well despite lacking the cover completely. Just pick your best two and go smashing, this has a desert node, so tons of broken fun.
Bacon Pants wrote: locked wrote: ^ Oh come on, I have a 3/4/2 GSBW and the only thing she does is feed green to Punisher. In LazyThor or Panther tourneys, people have been able to place well despite lacking the cover completely. Just pick your best two and go smashing, this has a desert node, so tons of broken fun. Lazy Thor paired with GSBW in the desert is insane. A team with those two and Spidey almost beat me tonight. There is almost endless green with that team, add in Spidey's stun and it's trouble.
Bacon Pants wrote: mags1587 wrote: Bacon Pants wrote: I keep missing all of you Shield fella's, and that's fine by me. It's a bummer to come out of a match and see that you were hit twice for -80. Oh well, shielding up for the night and hoping my score will still be good for first in the AM. You do realize you just jinxed yourself, don't you? Next PvP you'll have 2 or 3 of them in your bracket. Yea...Probably. It's inevitable though. I'm still happy that I beat The Ladder once.
Bacon Pants wrote: I keep missing all of you Shield fella's, and that's fine by me. It's a bummer to come out of a match and see that you were hit twice for -80. Oh well, shielding up for the night and hoping my score will still be good for first in the AM. EDIT: anyone ever see someone by the name of Slobofix? Pretty impressive roster...maxed 4 stars and BP, Mags, Hood, Hulk, Punisher, and Lazy Thor. How did S.H.I.E.L.D miss this one?