Street Brawl vs Regular Matchmaking

Question

Anyone else run into this? I’ve had a pretty decent run in Street Brawl, but it unintentionally bumped my rank bracket up like 2–3 times. Cool in theory… except it seems like it’s bleeding into my regular Deadlock matchmaking and making it seriously unfun.

So far I’m 11 losses out of 16 regular games. I'm no stranger to loss, I'm a dota veteran.

It feels like a self-fulfilling loop: I’m clearly out of my normal bracket in regular regular becomes a sweat-fest / stomp zone I start thinking “why even queue regular if I’m just out of my depth?”

which makes me play worse / tilt / stop enjoying it and then the losses keep stacking I don’t even mind losing when it feels fair. Am I crazy, or has anyone else had ranked success in one mode basically ruin the matchmaking in another?

Posted Feb 15, 2026, 10:47 PM UTC

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