Cumon blizzard me and friends play this game for 5 years. We spent many nights having fun and arguing.
Our Rank is around plat gold silver.
Now one of us got diamond and purposly have to feed to get back to plat, other guy got somehow put in bronze (hes usually gold) and we cannt play together ranked.
Make some clan system, this is horrible and force us away from game.
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Then good news., you can queue in ranked 2 ranks apart, so you can queue up as Plat, Gold and Silver.
I would argue (and I’m not alone) that allowing people to group 2 ranks apart is already very generous. If you want no restrictions Ranked will be the same clown mode Team League was. Do you really want GM’s teamed with Bronze smurfs for example?
That I can get onboard with, I’ve been asking for a clans system for years.
We are forced to purposly feed to get lower ranks now, which is sad.
I know this problem too.
The high ranked players from my group made new accounts for playing with their low ranked friends.
I hope you do this as a five man? Otherwise it’s pretty awful to the random people you play with to throw games.
A match that has low silvers and high diamonds on the same side is garbage. There I said it.
It’s not competitive at all.
Go into Unranked or Quick Match, there are no restrictions.
Who’s forcing you? If the plat player doesn’t want plat account, he can just play with you on an alternate account. It’s free.
But if your team doesn’t care about rank, why not just play unranked draft?
That mode is dead. If they’re a 5 stack I’m thinking they have no challenge in qm if they’re tryharding, unranked draft is dead, and ranked right now treats them “unfairly” since team has a wide range in ranks. Unfortunately the team might also not be competitive enough for tournaments so in the end they’re stuck in limbo, a lose-lose situation no matter what they do
I play it. It’s definitely not dead.
I waited 27 minutes in que for my last UD match. We were a party of 3.
Less alive than other modes yes, but not completely dead.
I have played 5 Unranked games this season already.
Tho it might be dead on the smaller servers that I wont deny.
Or play QM
Or play ARAM
Or play unranked
Or just look for other members to get 5 players though.
Or create custom games.
Or play vs A.I.
6 other options to play with your mates without sabotage games to drop to lower ranks to play with your mates…
How it is unfair, if one of their mates is stronger than the others? If the better player cannot compensate his lower players and use his advantage that they are teammates, not just randoms, then it’s not the fault of the system. Stacked teams has better chances in theory for a reason, if the stacked team don’t use it, missed opportunity.
People really need to stop advertising unranked as an alternative. Just let that queue die
Custom games? Way too much effort
Ai? That isn’t even a real challenge for a try hard team
It is an existing mode, so it’s always good, if people advertise it and it also should be in your favour since I remember you are one of those advocates, who would like to get rid of QM for a more balanced mode and unranked is still there.
Just because you don’t like it, doesn’t mean it’s not possible.
If that try hard team is good, then they could easily find another fifth member and play ranked as 5, shouldn’t be much of a problem.
I’m not sure if you’re being serious or not, but if you are, I agree. URD is very underutilized, getting rid of it might entice some people to finally be brave enough to try ranked.
Yes we play aram and qm but ranked is just juicy, and 5th player is not always here.
Ranked emotions are 5x higher.
But when we are 5 our now bronze sucker 
lost 600points per loss and won 200 per win. So he cannt get out of bronze as 5 stack.
Dunno if its on purpose, why bronzie looses 600…, he really deserves gold/silver rank, no way he belongs to bronze. (Im plat/diamond)
Anway, i hope we can play ranked together as group one day, like i said we play the hots together 5+ years.
This problem has existed since ranked adopted the gold/silver/bronze system (or even earlier but i dont know), it would take a miracle for it to be fixed before the sun turns into a red giant.
womp womp
you don’t have some God given right to play with whoever the hell you want in a team game. there are other things to consider other than your own selfish desires. 
Well yeah sure i can do it if i feed on purpose in ranked and get to gold/silver.
Which is stupid and sad
Why? 
Use another account.
Seriously, there’s nothing unfair about the game not wanting a team with one player well above the others. Not only it it super hard to find a match to that team, but it might give you an advantage over the other team
Which would be…unfair.