Why X Rank in Splatoon 3 is AWFUL

PLEASE feel free to start conversations in the comments about if you agree or not, im curious to see some different opinions than mine. also i’d like to make sure everyone understands this: i did NOT make this video to say i am better than everyone nor am i calling out individual players. if i used you as an example, it was nothing personal, nor do i dislike you. tbh, i don’t typically read or remember names. but also, i am not better than everyone. i still have tons to learn on my comp journey, so please don’t think that’s what this video is trying to say. hope you enjoy it! also SUBSCRIBE im close to 10k!!!

One of the weirdest things about matchmaking is the fact that explo and RANGE BLASTER can be matched as “similar weapons”

The matchmaking isn't terrible in theory (could use some tweaks however), but the low player count in tentatek just makes it abysmal.

My anger is my worst enemy, when it comes to this game especially and its not even just X-rank, its also series and open as well, cause once that anger switch in my brain flips, I perform so much worse in general, but that's something I've been working as of recently.

Something to also note is that after the 1st season, several players from the Tentatek division transferred over to the Takoroka division because they couldn’t find matches & the points they were getting were minimal. So, then our division starts to lose players, and it adds onto the waiting time to Q in a match. Back in S2, you could play Turf, Ranked (X), and League. Now you can play Turf, Series, Open, and X. One additional mode where people can pick that mode instead. If you were in X rank in S2, & wanted to play ranked modes, you had to play it. I’m S3, you don’t have to.

I’m a low level comp player with a peak of 2400. I completely agree with everything you said here, the poor matchmaking IS overall the main decider in how matches go and it can just be a slugfest to go through. It’s more evident in the current season, with a lot more skilled players from the tentatek division moving to takoroka.

Honestly games with these kind of match making really make it look like you need a close group to play with just to not have to deal with problems like this...

Splat is like fast food. It seems fun at first but you almost always come away feeling worse than when you started.

This is also a slight problem in anarchy. When sizzle season started, I played a game of TC on MakoMart, with a brand new weapon, and sweated my absolute balls off, getting multiple solo wipes. But each time I did, my teammates refused to get on tower, missing out on multiple, potentially game winning pushes. Keep in mind, the enemy team was okay, I did die a few times, but every time I countered a push that got to 70 remaining, my teammates let the tower wait 5 seconds, start moving very slowly back to mid, and stop. They never got on the tower once

Translated by Google: It is truly very unfair that when you do feats like being #1 in combat, #1 painting your own territory, #1 painting your opponent's territory and others to no avail. Because the system doesn't pay attention to you, it pays too much attention to the team causing you to lose and not receive points unfairly.

Thanks for this video, it definitely makes me feel less alone in all of it. Like you said it genuinely feels like either my team gets completely curb stomped or I'm playing against actual bots that we curb stomp, with little to no in between and it really sucks. Also congrats on 10k let's GOOOOO.

I 100% agree with this because X doesn't feel like a prestigious rank anymore and it sucks. Not to mention how easy it is to get S+0 because you only have to play one mode if you really wanted to. I don't know how I'd feel about grinding for S+10 to gain access to X as the rank reset would be annoying but I think it'd be much better than only requiring S+0.

I have to agree with the matchmaking. I'm a C- player because I'm not that great at anarchy, I usually play in open, and I don't play it often,But this morning I was playing some rainmaker only to get matched with someone in the top 3000 in X rank. Worst part was that someone in my team was afk the whole time until the rainmaker made it right in front of the goal. The match was over in 35 seconds. Gotta love splatoon

Splatoon 2 X rank 👍 Splatoon 3 x rank 👎

You have no idea how much i can relate to my teammates being passive, so many times i found myself in a situation where we can push and they are just not comming, doing heck knows what, i keep pressing "this way" but they keep fighting the wind so i get splatted and we lose. The cherry on top is that i can't even be bothered to play X rank so i just stay in S+ and it happens so often!!

The most fun I've had in x rank is finding myself in lobbys where I go against top 500 players. The matches are usually intense but exciting, especially when if I can preform well. The problem is that rarely happens and I'm usually getting stuck in unbalanced lobbies where I can go 2/3 and lose 100+ points. I'm hard stuck in 2200-2300 and I have given up because x rank is not worth the constant frustration

Theoretically, if someone playing X is competent, they gave three chances to have a poor player on their team while their opponents have four. Obviously you can end up with throwers, but over time competent players should move up no matter how many matches end up with poor teammates.

I agree that match making feels off. Even in turf war, the teams feel unbalanced more often than not.

Disclaimer, min 7:28 I don't think Anarchy series is for fun, I got to rank S+ and everything goes downwards from there, bad teamates, no offensive position, playing splatoon like 100hrs in total (you know if you got to rank with that minimum investment you either have been totally carried or splatoon 3 just lie straightforward on the rank of the other team members), and you can only really on luck to go through this. I'm a veteran splatoon 2 player for more that 800 hours and this just piss me ofd that the artificial difficulty is that you have to carry the team, instead of playing with equal balanced level players. Matchmaking in its worst so far.

I feel you. I got to 2200 power on Rainmaker, my favorite mode. And got so many bad teams that I went down to 1500!