Emerald Is A Weird Rank
61K views · Sep 21, 2026 · Gaming
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@Awkward2 · 9 days ago · pinned
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@CoachBldux · 9 days ago
Emerald feels like you took 1 gm, 2 masters, 2 diamonds and 5 bronzes and put them in a match. And whoever is in which team is completely random.
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@GSK-HomeLab · 3 days ago
holy crap plays mercy and has like 500 total healing done to tanks inthe entire game. i don't think ive ever seen a worse mercy player in my entire life
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@Numba1Hobo · 9 days ago
You gotta love how his first Emerald game is 2 supports spawncamping the enemy team 😂
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@adds-kz3oc · 9 days ago (edited)
Plat and Diamond matches feel much better balanced between both teams. Emerald matches feel like it's a mid Plat team vs a high Diamond team like 70% of the time.
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@ThaVolt999 · 9 days ago
As a washed up support player in Emerald "Wtf I have more damage than both dps" is very real.
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@Nyx_Productions · 9 days ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing this. Every lobby has people who are clearly smurfing (not intentionally) and people who I would believe just picked up the game last week.
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@drantino · 8 days ago
one of the specific things ive directly noticed with this range of ranked (including the high plat to low diamond before emerald) is these players at best are good at one thing and suffer at everything else. and straight up having teammates that you dont mesh well with instantly throws this off. so the only times they ever get a win is if the team can work with that one playstyle that they can play well. because they suck at doing other playstyles of any given char, it looks like they are bronze players 90% of the time.
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@LukeRosdahl · 8 days ago
I can't play it any more, one game you're ripping through players that can barely walk straight, the next game you're getting obliterated so fast you can barely move. Feels like hitting shuffle on elos and I don't know how matchmaking can be so bad, but they took an already miserable experience and made it so much worse.
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@edgesonyeet2948 · 9 days ago
I went from, high to low diamond for over 6 seasons to losing every game in emerald and now almost plat. Constantly de ranking 😭😭😭
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@georgioszampoukis · 9 days ago
Across all roles, I used to hover between P2 - D2, and matches for the most part, felt ok in terms of balance. Since Emerald was introduced, I am now hovering between E4 - E2 but the amount of chaos in matches is utterly insane. It feels like both teams are randomly pooled from silver al the way to Master.
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@jacobarbogast6580 · 8 days ago
I swear emerald is like a new baby version of what masters used to be. It’s like the first gauntlet you have to climb through in solo queue because your team is either the worst or the best 50% or the time. I’ve seen more deaths in less time than I knew was possible.
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