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I’d suggest against this if you care about your own SR very much for one.

But also, when you’re bronze/silver you have so much room to improve that you literally just have to get good enough at the game to hard carry consistently if you want to reach gold. At that level, and even in gold really, your individual impact can be strong enough when you raise your skill level to hard carry yourself out.

You’re going to be put in unreasonable games when you play with bronze friends though, so just focus on your own stats mostly and do your best. You won’t get as much credit for the games and will have to play much more. It’s more likely that your friends catch up in rank to you before you get out of silver.

Just keep grinding and improving at the game, don’t worry about where you are at any given point. It can take a lot of time to rank up. The best thing you can do is enjoy the fact that you’re playing a competitive game mode and trying your best to get better at the game. If you’re not already trying your best to improve, that’s all you should be doing. It doesn’t take long to rank up once your personal metrics are ranked up. The system doesn’t want high level players in lower skill tiers. It’s not good for engagement to have bronze and silver players being stomped.