The only way I’m able to play plat games because I am ranked 2.3k games is whenever I play with my friend who’s almost a diamond. That said this friend that I play with I met him when he was a high gold and I was low silver. He’s only allowed to go maximum online an hour a day but I have ranked up with him all the way up to where we are. Our group SR our rating right now is like 2.6k/2.7k, So whenever I play with him I’m usually the only gold in the match, then you have your uncommon diamond thrown in. It’s a shame he can’t go on more because I’d like to play more games with him. I’ve also eliminated the fact that one of us is carrying the other, It seems like when we play alone we lose but when we play together we win. This will suggest that there’s some kind of team synergy, but honestly our team synergy is non existence I usually one-trick brig Who doesn’t really combo well with anybody and we don’t have great comms either If anything most of the time we’re just talking about life while playing the game.
I usually play support and the problem that I commonly find is low DPS or bad game sense That drags me down. Mostly I play Brig support though though I can play other thing. the worst thing that can happen for me as a support I think is low DPS because as a support you can only contribute so much to dps or healing and if I switch to somebody like Baptiste or Zen I may contribute to DPS but that comes at the expense of my my healing output so this one’s difficult to fix in silver because you either choose between DPS or healing and the other will suffer. Actually come to think of it The biggest
This is why I suspect that around mid gold there’s some one kind of competency threshold, In the lower level you really don’t know what you’ll get and perhaps I just have bad luck.
I made a topic on this before though, asking why this was so and we could never figure it out and there was no solid reason. The playing field mid gold and below is sketch. If you feel like you should be a higher level and you’re on console I would recommend getting a new account, I don’t have an alt account that can play competitive but from what I hear this is a common problem a lot of people have different accounts with different ratings some of them are high levels that are stuck in the low ranks of some reason. It’s a mystery because really we don’t know how matchmaking works.