20% of victories in FB Gameroom

Yo, clanmate. Sorry we haven't had much of a chance to squad together yet. Here's my hangar for reference.



Obviously, things aren't much better for me. I dropped out of Champ a little under a month ago and my winrate has usually stayed around 30-something%. A streak of only 20% sounds unusually rough but I can understand that happening even with solid play given the state of the meta and matchmaking on FBGR.

Here's my advice: there's a big difference between tanking and managing your league points. Intentionally losing to tank will always be a 「wee-wee」 move because it's unfair to the other people placed on your team. That being said, there's no reason to try and deal the most damage on your team in losses unless you are trying to maintain your present league or rise higher. The only reward you're getting for doing that is a little bit more silver and keys, but not much.

So, what I'd say is try to figure out as early on in a match whether the match is actually winnable for your team. If it's not winnable, don't try so hard to maximize your damage. For example, if I sense that a match is unwinnable, I'll then happily send several of my bots on suicide missions with the goal of at least killing a ShockBulg on the other side. When you're thrown against unbeatable full-clan Mk2 squads playing the game on easy mode, you can just play hyper-aggressively and target the most cancerous setup they're running. Playing smarter and maximizing your damage isn't really accomplishing anything for you anyways in those situations. If the match becomes 6 on 3, you don't have to keep dropping in bots just to feed the whales--the match has already been lost.

You're also running a hangar clearly geared toward maximizing damage, but it's still not a meta hangar for your league. Consider running a second support setup or a second capper. Then, even in cases where it looks like you can get the win, you can still contribute (and try for capping gold) while minimizing your damage a bit.

All that being said though, I'm not sure if it's worth it to drop down if you only drop down a little bit as I have. The matchmaker has only been slightly more kind to me after falling out of Champ. I'm maybe a little more likely to be thrown in with Gold/Diamond/Expert matches, but it's hard to say.

The only other advice I can give is, if you have any control over the time of day/which days of the week you play, try to experiment with that because it can make a huge difference. If you figure out that you're seeing lots of whale pods at a particular time of day, try to avoid that time and you should be able to have a somewhat better experience.

I am not sure you need to tank in FBGR, I am always paired with Gold or Diamond League even in Champions League.

No point to tank at FBGR. Things will probably swing around soon.

If not... Sounds like a glitch in the brilliant skewed MM Pix has come up with. In that case, try stuff. Frirst get your league score up to 5100 or so, then play a chain of KotH (I would try to stay at Champs for supply drops), with that hangar it should result in some bad placements in battle results, and maybe get you out of the glitched state.

I haven't had much luck finding a Clan on FBGR, but MM change in January absolutely had a disruptive effect. I started at Champion and over the course of a month have been pushed down to the border of Expert 2 and Expert 3. The basic problem is that with a short range hanger, your damage statistic is heavily dependent on your opponents. An Mk2 Component hanger opponent is going to limit your damage output whereas your same hanger vs. more reasonable opponents will post much higher stats. The oscillations in damage placement play havoc with the league system. Mid/Long range hangers tend to do lower average damage with less variability. At 20-30% win rates, you have to be consistently placing in the top half to avoid moving down in League Score. At first blush, it looks like you're either getting paired with weak team-mates, or you're prioritizing damage over objectives (or both). FWIW, it took over a month for my MM to settle out. I went from a 70% win rate pre-January '17 to a sub 50% win rate. The matches are only now becoming more reasonable.




Kumi: 6/6
Fujin: 9/9/9
Carnage: 6/6
Rhino: 6/6/6/6
Raijin: 12/9 Ancile

Its all about the damage.  My potential damage is quite a bit lower than yours.  Treat the single 12 Zeus on the Raijn as two 6's and I'm running 13 hardpoints vs. your 14, with a 4 point level differential.  I touched on this in another thread, but League movement is far more impacted by damage than any other factor (including win/loss).  I'm hesitant to upgrade weapons at this point because I'm basically getting good matches again and until I have the resources to get some component gear I'm not sure that upgrading the existing would be long-term useful or result in better games.  For reference, my December hanger subbed the Haechi (which I did not have) for a Leo, Griffin, or Garry depending on the objective, The Fujin ran with Punishers, and all weapons were level 6.