NorthernPolarity wrote: Get your point total up to a respectable amount (~300 points for normal tourneys, 100 for LRs), and then win a match with the weakest team you can field. The best way of doing this is joining right at the beginning of a tournament so that you get seed teams (haiguyzdoom, etc.), save a seed team for when you want to start tanking, and then beat the seed team with your **** team. You should get attacked a lot, and have your MMR plummet.
The PACman wrote: I had been wondering how this worked! OK I get what you said, but how long does your MMR stay at the lower amount? Surely as soon as you come back and switch back to your winning team again it will quickly be back up where it was, how easy is it to get back the points you lost through being attacked and then to push on up the rankings?
SirKopath wrote: I have been tanking in the Double Shot tournament like CRAZY and it's helped bring down my MMR to a manageable level. I started with facing MANY all 141 teams, but now i'm down to around level 95 average What i do is build up my rating to 300-400, then put a somewhat weaker team out. I then get hit many times, but my loss is only about 7-12 points per match. When I hit 250 rating, I build back up to 300-400 with only a few matches. Tanking in LR seems not to work as well, I do maybe 4-7 attacks to get the 100 point award, but then I am usually only attacked at a max 7 times.
wuming79 wrote: SirKopath wrote: I have been tanking in the Double Shot tournament like CRAZY and it's helped bring down my MMR to a manageable level. I started with facing MANY all 141 teams, but now i'm down to around level 95 average What i do is build up my rating to 300-400, then put a somewhat weaker team out. I then get hit many times, but my loss is only about 7-12 points per match. When I hit 250 rating, I build back up to 300-400 with only a few matches. Tanking in LR seems not to work as well, I do maybe 4-7 attacks to get the 100 point award, but then I am usually only attacked at a max 7 times. Do you have to win with the weaker team? NorthernPolarity mentioned that you need to win with a weak team but I was wondering how can a weak team win...?
wuming79 wrote: Question, if I change to a weak team in pvp and then go to pave and play with another team, does this tanking method still work?