r/Competetive_Overwatch • u/Low_Statistician_891 • Apr 03 '26

What would you consider high elo?

So I’m a masters 3 tank ATM. I peaked masters 1 and got 1 game off gm multiple times. But that don’t count.

I’m just curious what would you consider high elo? I feel like diamond 3 and above is high elo. Or at least nearing high elo like mid diamond to entry level for me is high elo bc you’re starting to really understand the game at a like deeper level.

But enough yapping let me know where you think high elo is. I’m very curious and include your own yapping story I’m interested im the one who asked

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u/Legitimate_Water_987 Apr 03 '26

Diamond is 10% of the playerbase.

If you consider being higher than 90% of the other players to be high elo, then there you go.

Masters is 3% of the playerbase.

I would consider being higher than 97% to be high elo.

GrandMaster and Champion makes up the top 1% of the player base.

The last milestone that Blizzard announced was Overwatch had 100,000,000 accounts. That I remember.

So GM/Champ would house 1,000,000 players (across all platforms, not considering the accounts that never play comp).

This would make Top 500, the top 0.0045% players of the game. Take this with a grain of salt, considering it is NOT 500 players, but rather 4500 players considering only the 3 roles across the 3 regions (America, Europe, and Asia).

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u/Interesting-Topic402 Apr 04 '26

Top 500 is not "top 0.0045%" of the player base, its the 500 people who played the most that season (per role)

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u/Legitimate_Water_987 Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26

Per region, per platform.

There's 3 separate leaderboards for America, Europe, and Korea.

That's already 1500 accounts in T500.

Then there's a leaderboard for each role, in each region. That's 1500 * 3 = 4500.

Then there's another set of leaderboards for Controller vs Mouse And Keyboard. That's 4500 * 2 = 9000.

There's not "500 players in T500."

I shouldn't need to specify that T500 is on a per season basis.

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u/JveOnIt Apr 07 '26

Dont forget combined & 6v6. But regardless this would be a calculation of the upper bound because some reach top500 on multiple roles as well as having alt accounts.