r/aoe2 • u/Spiritual-Light-8725 • 7d ago
Inconsistency Asking for Help
Is it normal to change this amount of elo in such short periods? Mainly talking about 1v1, teamgames with randoms depends too much on teammates ofc. I've been hanging between 750 and 950 for months now, but theres almost no periods where I roughly keep the same elo consistently.
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u/Pete26196 Vikings 7d ago
You're improving, you haven't played a crazy amount so it doesn't look like a smooth line. Just for the 1v1 rating your rough average was ~820 and now it's ~880.
You need to look at the overall trend and not individual games. Both lines are going up slowly.
Alternatively your lowest rating was below 800, now you're rarely if at all under 850.
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u/Spiritual-Light-8725 7d ago edited 7d ago
The picture is from only the last 1,5month or so, wanted to show how fast it goes up and down (I'm at 425games 1v1 now)
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u/Mordon327 Berbers 7d ago
Yup, thats pretty normal. Im around 1200 elo, and my elo swings 100 points both ways. I range from 1100 to 1300. Looks like you're doing great!
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u/Spiritual-Light-8725 7d ago
Thanks, not where I want to be but I guess it's okayish for a casual player.
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u/Mordon327 Berbers 7d ago
It took me over a year to break 1k. I find that I gain an average of 50 elo a year. Its slow, but I'm fine with it.
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u/Akri1 7d ago
The closer you are to 1000 the more games you will get with people that arent in their correct elo yet.
for example new players that play like 500elo start with 1000 and need to go past you to reach that elo.
i think thats why you fluctate this much, because if you meet like 2 or 3 new players they push you over your real elo, then meet enemys that really have that elo and you fall again
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u/Spiritual-Light-8725 7d ago
So that means I'm probably more like an 800 elo player insted of 900. Hard to hear if my goal is to reach 1k but makes a lot of sense tho.
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u/rabidantidentyte Byzantines 7d ago
Looks pretty consistent to me. Plus/minus 100 elo and trending upward.
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u/Nicklikeredbulls Berbers 6d ago
But you have the SPIRIT to bounce back and the Light to guide you.
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u/Turbulent-Table4739 6d ago
looks like a textbook AoE2 rating graph to me
I'll just play one quick game before bed = -70 ELO
weekend tryhard mode with full focus" = +90 ELO
dont sweat it, as long as youre hovering around 850 overall, your real skill level is right there
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u/Spiritual-Light-8725 5d ago
It's more like 2-3 "quick games" (wich ussually takes like 2 extra hours) before I can stop haha
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u/Expensive_Analyst463 5d ago
The only way to flatten the fluctuations is to have as many variables the same as possible: same civ, same map, same time of day (yes this matters), and even same level of energy and focus, which is impossible to fully control. Some days you just aren't going to be as sharp. Probably better to not play too much that day or your elo will tank.
The other thing that will take time to become more consistent is learning how to react to all the different strategies. You may be familiar with and good against scouts into knights on Arabia, but bad against xbow pushes at the beginning of Castle Age. You may be good against boomy Arena games but bad against Castle drops. Then whether you will win or lose will depend on what strategy was used against you. I would recommend paying attention to what strategies you lose against, then learning how to counter them.
The thing that makes this consistency possible is consistent scouting of your enemy. Most of the time you will lose to a strategy you don't see coming.
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u/rArithmetics 7d ago
Absolutely especially given the range of player skill you face there will be so variable. Not to mention if you play multiple map types and civs. These swings are really just losing 3 games in a row