A fix for ranked balance for all players

As a lot of us know ranked is poorly balanced across most of the ranks. At the lower levels its easy to rank up and makes new players feel good. But at the higher ranks, specifically once you hit diamond, the skill needed to rank up becomes less and less important compared to time spent and connections in game. Once players hit diamond they are faced with 3 stack pred and master teams that can farm entire lobbies because no team is able to punish them for any mistakes they make. This puts an almost impossible wall in place for almost all players that no amount of skill can surpass in a reasonable amount of time.

A fix for this would be reasonable simple. To start with making master and pred players solo que only would massively fix the imbalance by forcing high ranked players to be truly skilled on their own while also making it far more punishing when they make mistakes. To further increase the overall ranked experience a change needs to be made to how the ranked points are calculated. The system right now massively encourages kill farming which makes the skill gap even larger between solo que and teamed players. 

To fix the ranked system, making it so that entry cost is higher but gets fully refunded at top 8 would punish bad decisions in the early game. Making it so that kills are not worth any points until top 8 also stops the insane kill grind. By removing placement points in exchange for entry cost refund at top 8, players can no longer kill farm to rank up and ignore placement, or just rat to high placement to gain points. You must both get top 8 and have kills to gain points. This with the increased entry cost will punish bad habits and gameplay and reward good decisions. 

TL;DR

Ranked as it is doesn't punish bad gameplay decisions and rewards time and connections more then skill. making ranked punish bad habits and preventing players from getting carried to high ranks will highlight the true competitive nature of the game in a way that it needs.