Quote Originally Posted by Valence View Post
With that said, let's just ask then, what is your global ratio, with a good sample amount then? Can you honestly tell me in the eyes that past thousands of games, it's just sheer luck? Yeah i'm sure CC players at the top are all there by sheer luck as well. B-but they have much more weight! Yeah and you wanna bet how much higher their ratio will be if we just take their casual games? Unfortunately harder to track, but I have little doubt about it.
I never said it was all luck, but luck definitely plays a huge part when you're solo queuing. You could be the best PvPer in the game, and it means nothing if you end up matched with a team of people who are terrible at PvP, or otherwise don't care and just want to face roll their way through the roulette bonus, moogle tomes, and/or series XP. Especially so if you're matched against enemy teams who actually care about trying to win and coordinate, which is doubly so when they have one or more premade groups that are queuing together to do exactly that.

As per my own personal win ratio, I have a good bit more more wins than losses. Some weeks I have amazing runs and consistently end up on good teams, other weeks it feels like the matchmaking system is going out of it's way to punish me by dumping me on terrible teams. I don't try-hard in FL and run in premades, I only ever solo queue, and because of that my win ratio trends more toward average than the outlier week I had on my alt. Though ironically, this past week I played AST almost exclusively on my alt, which I'm kind of seeing an argument that AST could probably do with being nerfed a bit.