This is becoming increasingly frustrating. There appears to be no consistency in gaining and losing points.
The other night in preparation for the NA Open, my team and I searched as a 4 man squad and played 15 games. We lost 1 outright, lost 1 from a game crash, and won 13. By the end of this I had gone up about 5 points total, in the mid 1600s.
Yesterday I was solo and duo queuing in open and found that I gained more points for each win. However, after one game of recharge oddball. I went 25/25 with over 2mins of ball time and actually lost over 15 points after winning the game. They had a platinum player so I dont expect to go up a lot from that, but I certainly didn’t expect to go down.
It would be nice to know how this works because it seems to me that you don’t gain much at all playing in a full squad. It also seems way more beneficial to stat the entire match to either minimize rating loss if you lose, or maximize gain if you win.
I play to win, not for the KDA. Sometimes that means I play objective, support my team mates, or anchor positions that help to get the W but don’t necessarily yield the most kills. Some games it means I am slaying and I get a decent amount, but the latter really doesn’t seem to give much if any rating in return.
It’s also made me not want to play ranked in a full team because I’ll gain 1-3 points off a win but lose 5-15 for a loss.
I’d love some clarification and am interested to see what others think about it.