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Here you will be able to learn everything about Overwatch ranks and its ranking system, such as a list of all the ranks, ranks distribution, how to start playing ranked, and more.
We also did all the research and summarized them here. Keep reading to learn about them.
Your competitive skill rating is displayed as a number from 0 to 5000 , 5000 being the highest possible skill rating.
You also get a rank , based on your skill rating. There are 8 ranks in Overwatch:
Typically, you earn about 20-30 SR after a win. And lose around 20-30 SR after a loss.
The amount you gain or lose depends on your performance .
And if you’re on a winning streak , that signals the game that your skill rating is lower than your actual skill level, and you will earn more SR per win.
The only official stats available is this post from Jeff Kaplan , lead designer of Overwatch, in February of 2018:
Bottom 8% of the total players belong to Bronze . The bottom 8% to 29% are Silver .
And Gold makes up the biggest portion of the pie at 32%, which is bottom 29% to top 39% .
Top 39% to 14% are Platinum players. And top 14% to 4% are Diamond players.
The most prestige ranks are Master who are top 4% to 1% , and Grandmaster who represent the top 1% of all players.
Silver, gold and platinum add up to 78% – more than 3/4 of all players.
Each season, you need to complete 5 placement matches for a role(Tank, DPS or Support) in order to receive your skill rating and rank.
Then, you will receive a rank for that role only . To get ranks in other roles, you’ll have to complete 5 placement matches for each role:
Before you can play placement matches, your account needs to be at least level 25 .
You get XP points by playing Quick Play , Play vs AI , Practice vs AI , Arcade , Custom Games or Competitive Play .
The amount of XP points are based on these factors:
You earn different amount of XP for these game modes:
If you abandon matches at a high rate among your last 20 games, you will get -75% XP penalty temporarily. So do not abandon matches too much if you’re trying to level up as fast as possible.
If you’re in a group, you will get 20% extra XP at the end of each match. So try to party with your friends, or find a group with Find Group in the game:
You also get extra 1,500 XP for your first win of the day – so try to win at least 1 game everyday.
Here is a list of XP needed to level up for the first 25 levels:
Role queue is the current system of Overwatch, where each team must pick 2 tanks , 2 DPS and 2 supports .
Thus, players must pick one or more roles before queueing up for a competitive match or quick match. Once you find a match, you’re locked into a role, and you’re forced to pick a hero for that role only.
When you reach the skill rating for the next highest rank, you immediately get promoted:
Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond players do not immediately rank down as soon as their skill rating drops below their current rank.
Instead, they get 5 matches to recover their SR back to their original rank. If their SR is still below their original rank after the 5 matches, then their rank goes down.
However, you get the Competitive Points based on the highest rank you achieved that season.
On June 8th 2020, Blizzard announced that hero pools will be removed indefinitely from competitive play.
Hero pools was a now-removed system where a total of 4 heroes were banned each week in Masters’ and Grandmasters’ competitive games. It was introduced in competitive season 21.
Blizzard gathered hero play data from Overwatch League matches from the last 2 weeks, and picked heroes that were played over a certain percentage during that span.
Out of all the heroes chosen, 1 tank, 2 DPS, and 1 support heroes were removed. The higher the play rate was in previous 2 weeks, the better the chance was to be chosen.
A hero was not able to be banned for two weeks in a row.
Hero pools were announced on Sundays, after Overwatch League matches are complete.
There are a few rules to playing competitive games in a group:
Within two weeks after each competitive season starts, top 500 leaderboard comes out.
You can see the leaderboard by right clicking on Competitive Play , then clicking on Leaderboard .
In Leaderboard, you can see the list of top 500 players for different roles, seasons and regions. You can also check the friends icon on the right to see the leaderboard among your Battle.net friends.
Players who have reached top 500 get a Heroic icon , a player icon and spray which are different than the regular icon and spray. Player icon and spray are different each season.
To be qualified for the top 500 leaderboard, you must have played at least 50 competitive matches in that season after Blizzard SMS Protect has been enabled.
Here is a guide to setup Blizzard SMS Protect.
Currently, each season lasts about 8 weeks , with no time off in between seasons. The beginning of each season is the first Thursday of every other month .
To see how many days are left in the current season, right click on Competitive Play . The days left are written in the orange bar here:
After the season is over, you will see a summary of the season next time you’re in home screen. You can see your highest achieved SR for each role that you finished placement matches in:
As soon as a season ends, the next season begins.
When a new season begins, you will see the rewards the next time you click on Competitive Play .
While you’re in queue for a quick match, arcade or competitive match, you can join a practice range, skirmish, deathmatch or custom games. You can only join custom games that are set to allow players in queue to join.
For Diamond, Master and Grandmaster players, the skill rating used to drop by 25 points for every 24 hours they did not complete 5 competitive matches. And it kept dropping until it reached 3000.
This is called skill rating decay . However, it has been removed since Rold Queue Beta.
Competitive points are points you need to buy gold weapons for heroes.
After each competitive season is over, players who completed their placement matches get competitive points based on the highest rank achieved that season, for each role:
You get competitive points for each role you completed placement matches in. So if you want to earn competitive points fast, you should aim to complete the placement matches for all 3 roles.
You also get 15 competitive points for each win, and 5 for each draw, in Competitive Play.
After each competitive season, a player icon and spray are rewarded to any player who completed placement matches.
Players who finished the season in top 500 will also receive a Hero icon and an animated Hero spray which are also unique for that season. They also get a regular Top 500 icon, which is given to all players who have finished in top 500 in any season at least once.
Here are all the player icon and spray for each season:
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