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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:
Players ranked in top 500 of highest skill ratings in their region
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:
Competitive 6v6 Elimination Competitor 2018
Competitive 6v6 Elimination Competitor 2019
Competitive 6v6 Elimination Competitor 2020
Competitive Deathmatch Competitor 2018
Competitive Deathmatch Competitor 2019
Competitive 3v3 Elimination Competitor 2018
Competitive 3v3 Elimination Competitor 2019
Competitive Team Deathmatch Competitor 2018
Competitive Team Deathmatch Competitor 2019
Competitive-6v6-Elimination Hero 2018
Competitive-6v6-Elimination Hero 2019
Competitive-6v6-Elimination Hero 2020
Competitive 3v3 Elimination Hero 2018
Competitive 3v3 Elimination Hero 2019
Competitive Team Deathmatch Hero 2018
Competitive Team Deathmatch Hero 2019
Competitive 3v3 Elimination Competitor 2018
Competitive 3v3 Elimination Hero 2018
Competitive 3v3 Elimination Competitor 2019
Competitive 3v3 Elimination Hero 2019
Competitive 6v6 Elimination Competitor 2018
Competitive 6v6 Elimination Hero 2018
Competitive 6v6 Elimination Competitor 2019
Competitive 6v6 Elimination Hero 2019
Competitive 6v6 Elimination Competitor 2020
Competitive 6v6 Elimination Hero 2020
Competitive Team Deathmatch Competitor 2018
Competitive Team Deathmatch Hero 2018
Competitive Team Deathmatch Competitor 2019
Competitive Team Deathmatch Hero 2019
Competitive Deathmatch Competitor 2018
Competitive Deathmatch Competitor 2019
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Here's your complete guide to the competitive Overwatch experience
Overwatch still largely stands in a league of its own. The objective-based hero shooter remains one of the most watched competitive games, and there’s little else like it on the market. But you don’t have to be an Overwatch League pro to get a taste of the competitive action – anyone can hop in and test their mettle in Overwatch’s ranked mode.
Overwatch 2 might be on the horizon, but why wait until then to jump in and ‘get good’ when you could get a major leg up on the current offering? It will certainly get you well prepared before that all important Overwatch 2 release date.
However, if you are new to competitive Overwatch, and want to see what has kept the user base active since 2016, it’s a great time to get involved. Here’s all the information you need for your ranked journey in Overwatch, including how to get start, how your rank is calculated, and much more.
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So, you just bought Overwatch and want to jump straight into some competitive ranked gameplay.
Well hold your horses there, pal – Overwatch wants to make sure you know what you are doing first. You’ll need to spend a significant amount of time with the characters in other modes before the game will let you into ranked games
To be eligible for the competitive playlist you’ll need to get your account to Level 25. This is not an insignificant amount of time, and there aren’t many tricks to this either – you simply have to play Overwatch. Quickplay will give you the best experience and ready you for competitive play, though you also get experience from the Arcade modes.
You can get a 20% experience bonus when playing with other players in a group though, so if you can rustle up a friend to help you, you will get there much faster.
Once you are at Level 25, you can finally get going. You will play five placement matches for each role in Overwatch: tank, DPS, and support. Depending on how you do in that, as well as your performance in quick play up until that point, the game will do the maths and give you an SR-based rank.
In ranked Overwatch, everyone has a skill rating, or SR. This essentially is an approximation of how good the game thinks you are. You will learn to live by these numbers as they dictate everything in your competitive experience.
It will decide your rank, but also the quality of players in your games. The matchmaking will heavily rely on player SR to make teams. Most of the time, you’ll only be matched with players within a couple of hundred points of yourself.
If you want to get into a higher rank and face a better calibre of player, you will have to prove to the game that you can hang in tougher matches by repeatedly beating players in the rank you’re currently in.
If you are returning to Overwatch after some time away, this might be a confusing development. In the past, players just had one SR tied to their account, no matter what role you played.
That changed when role queues were added to Overwatch in 2019. While the game used to be free-flowing and players could swap between DPS, support, and tank roles on a whim, games could end up being filled with six DPS players trying to tussle their way onto their hero of choice.
Related: Our Overwatch tier list of the game’s best heroes
Now the game works in a more rigid 2-2-2 format (referring to 2 tanks, 2 DPS and 2 supports.) Players now have an SR for each of those roles, meaning if you are an excellent tank but terrible DPS, you will have two different numbers to reflect that as opposed to one being affected by both.
There is also a fourth SR rank. Due to some players missing the older ways, Blizzard added an Open Queue back into the game not too long ago. This mimics how competitive used to be played, so you will not be locked into a role.
These are the eight ranks in competitive Overwatch:
As you can see, SR really does dictate everything to do with competitive play. The only way to get out of your current tier rank is to gain SR – and quite a lot of it.
Each bracket is separated by 500 SR each so you’ll need to overcome these thresholds to climb.
As you can see, Top 500 doesn’t have an official SR bracket. As should be self-explanatory, this pseudo-rank is reserved for the top 500 players in a region. This is ever-changing as players attempt to outdo each other by earning more SR.
The distribution of ranks in competitive Overwatch is important information to know, as you can base how well you’ve done against the rest of the player base. So how many people tend to reach each rank in Overwatch?
Well, we don’t know exactly as Blizzard doesn’t share that information regularly. However, the best indication we have is a post from creative director Jeff Kaplan in 2018. In it, he gave a breakdown of the number of players in each tier.
The 2018 rank distribution in Overwatch was:
As you can see, the majority of the player base exists in Silver, Gold and Platinum. 78% of all players are shared between those ranks.
A good goal to start you off is to try and reach Platinum if you’re not there already. Doing so will put you in the top 39% of the competitive player base. Players will be more likely to have situational and compositional awareness as well and are more likely to talk in voice chat, which can make or break most matches in such a team-orientated game.
Again, these stats are from 2018 so they aren’t an exact reflection of today’s rank distribution. However, even with role queueing being added since then, it’s a good indication of how Blizzard wants the player base to be split up, so it’s at least a good reference point.
When it comes do gaining SR and climbing the Overwatch ranks, there’s one thing you need to do: win.
In most ranks, a win will generally give you around 20-30 SR. A loss will set you back around the same amount.
While many might insist that getting consecutive wins will help you climb at a faster rate, this is actually not true. Not any more, anyway. When Overwatch first launched you could fly up the ranks if you were on a hot streak, but the feature was removed years ago as players were boosting other players out of their deserved rank and it was a little too easy to abuse.
Competitive Overwatch works on a seasonal rotation. These seasons are around two months long and make sure your play is contained to a snapshot of time. You can look at your stats from previous seasons and start to compare your performance to see if you are improving.
At the start of each season, you need to play your five placement matches again.
Every competitive Overwatch player will receive rewards at the end of each season. Depending on the highest SR you reached in that season, you will get a couple of rewards (yes, that means if you eeked it into Gold but then fell down the ranks back to Silver after, you will get rewards from Gold tier).
You will get both a player icon and spray dedicated to the season so you can show players you participated, but more importantly, you get Competitive Points. This is a unique currency that is used for one thing: golden weapon skins.
You earn Competitive Points for every win and draw you get in the competitive playlist, but you also get a pay-out at the end of the season.
Here’s how many Competitive Points you earn at the end of a season, depending on your Overwatch rank:
That points breakdown is per role, so say you finished in Gold playing tank, DPS, and support, you’d get 300 Competitive Points.
If you place in Open Queue you will get a lot more too. They breakdown like this:
Once you have 3,000 competitive points, you will be able to buy a golden weapon for one hero in the game to flex your ranked prowess.
Season 27 of Overwatch is scheduled to end on May 6, 2021. That’s barring any technical issues, which did affect this season’s launch by a few days.
While not explicitly tied to the competitive playlist, Overwatch Priority Passes are worth being aware of as they affect your role queues.
Priority Passes are a relatively new addition to the game that intend to smooth the curve on the demand to play DPS. Before their addition, it was not rare to wait upwards of 10-20 minutes to play a game as a DPS hero due to the inflated player pool when compared to support and tanks. Priority Passes essentially put you at the front of a queue to play the DPS role.
You can hold up to 40, but to earn more you will have to play some games in the priority queue function. This will place you into a game in any role. Almost always this will be as a tank or support. If you win or draw the game you will get considerably more passes too, so, try your best.
Priority Passes are available in quickplay too, but competitive and quickplay priority passes are not shared. That means you can’t just farm them in quickplay and bring them into competitive. If yo
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