Does decay effect your Matchmaking? Ive tested and it appears to be a massive YES

Over 3 accounts and 9 separate times this season I have been able to consistently gather that despite what ANET has previously said decay DOES effect your matchmaking.

After letting these accounts decay the average rank(in a given game) has GREALY decreased whenever decay is applied. At one point I let myself decay to like 900 rating and only saw bronze to low silver players despite the account in question being ranked at just under 1400.

On another occasion a low plat account(the one im on now), saw only on average silver players after decay had applied.

As someone who frequently lets myself decay, whenever I play after having decayed to silver or bronze, I'm still facing people I know are platinum because I recognize them either from seeing them regularly in my matches or from the leaderboard.

PvP population is so small... Reason why you see bronze/silvers in your game ecks dee

as someone who is in plat and experiences decay i alot, i can say that decay does NOT affect matchmaking

@Ben Phongluangtham.1065 said:Decay does not affect matchmaking.Source: Have looked at the code with a programmer.

But we need conspiracys to thrive!

@Ben Phongluangtham.1065 said:Decay does not affect matchmaking.Source: Have looked at the code with a programmer.

Really? A season ago when i was in gold 2 i was playing and got a user that went by the name branndon at the time he was a top10 ele that streamed in twitch id watch him alot. One time he got placed in my game and i was freaking out as to why am i playing a top10 when im only a gold 2. I started talking to him and asked him why hes not streaming id like to watch, he said he was only on to get ride of his decay.Juat my 2 cents of decay and match making.