Can a bronze play with a gold in ranked?

hey there guys new to storm league and was just wondering if I could get a solid answer about the topic.

Yes but only if you party together.

They also need to do their placement matches first.

They can. In fact a Bronze 5 with 0 points can duo queue with a Gold 1 with 999 points (a player who is practically platinum).

Whether this is okay or not is a matter of opinion or debate.

That’s called boosting services. Bring 3 other bronze 5 players

If the people logged in on the bronze/silver accounts are masters or higher, yeah it is, and it should be prohibited by the game rules (but for some reason it’s not).

Preventing boosting would be highly unenforceable

Deboosting serveces, i checked it in action with some friends.
aslo, nerve-costing.