Green forces blocks and Blue makes attackers unblockable . Only red stops blockers from blocking . Blue gets tappingfreezing , but that ' s at a higher price than the panic effect . <| sep |> You seem to be confusing competitive points , which are used to buy golden weapons and you never lose any other way , with rank points which go up or down depending on your performance in competitive . The ranking system is fairly complicated , it takes into account the systems certainty that you are close to your true deserved rank , your individual performance and whether you were matched against a higher or lower ranked team . It uses these factors in every game so there ' s a lot more that goes into your ranking than just winlose . Blizzard have never fully revealed the internal workings of the system either , so we don ' t know for sure if there are more things or how the weights on these things have changed over time .