Quick Summary

Many Redditors claimed that abandoning match during first week would result in much lower rating loss. We acted as a mythbusters on this topic, happy to share results.

Quick Answer

Game duration affects how much rating you gain or loose. Proven with 10000+ matches analyzed.

Important

As a big fan to the HoMM series and Olden Era, we encourage to have fun by design. Staying and not abandoning match brings honorable competetive environment and a joy of a comeback!

Game Duration Statistics

TownPortal continues to gather match history far beyond top-200 leaderboard players, resulting in a massive 10000+ PVP games played statistics across timeline and patches introduced.

  • week 1 abandon will result in fixed -20 point loss

  • week 1 to week 2 will increase rating change linearly day by day, from -20 to -31 points loss

  • week 2+ rating impact is fixed until finalka (+39-41 for win, and -31-33 for loss)

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