All news outlets are opinion outlets , now more than ever . They weren ' t always . Journalists had ethics and outlets had to stay unbiased . Now that most news outlets are owned by corporate interests , the entire industry is loaded with partisan pandering bullshit . All the editorials , commentary nonsense has replaced real news . Obviously rebel media opinions touch a nerve with youYeah because they ' re agenda driven scumbags pandering to stupid people with bigoted hangups . <| sep |> PSA Lick your fingers before you attempt to pull them out ! It ' s a finger saver , guaranteed . <| sep |> loool congratz <| sep |> A fucking powerful orgasm <| sep |> Your own chances of winning are roughly 4060 % depending on your hero selection however you can check your team mates win percentage for the heros they just picked and add them together including yours and then divide by 6 and do the same for the enemy team . You will mostly get wonky odds like 40 % and 50 % this is like having a huge handicap now you want to have the favourable odds on your team when your team has the LOWER average SR because that will award you the most for a win . Assuming you have shitty odds such as a widow who doesnt main widow or a rein who ' s never played rein on that map so say 30 % winrate over 510 matches then the saving grace is you idealy want to have the lower average SR again . So you are awarded SR based on false odds which is that average SR determines your chance to win or lose . When in fact hero picks is more impactful and their individual respective winrate added together . I cant convey this very well but I will ask my engineer friend tomorrow . for some reason it seems that assuming every 1 else is at 50 % its better to have someone whos 40 % on the enemies team than 60 % on your team . In other words its easier to throw than carry . The bottom line is that theres so many factors such as a counter to your main , boosters , throwers etc etc that its essentially a gamble . The higher you get the less flexibility there seems to be so if you wind up with a team of dps mains and a higher average SR its the worst case scenario especially if you are on a winstreak . I wanna point out that I have never seen a streamer solo queue on a smurf and end up as high as their mains tier . Not a smurf but a good example is DSPStanky , clearly one of the best Lucios yet he fell out of Grand Master . If you go through peoples stats amongst rank you will see little concistency such as accuracy or headshots per minute or elims per life even amongst something so tight as the top 500 . The inconsistency is reflective of the countless anecdotes of shitty team mates and its proof in the pudding that SR is innacurate I would guess to or 500