@BalladalidilaAgain like I said in the OP, the weirdest part about this all is that rank clearly does not denote physical skill in bronze through early gold. I have been melted on contact by bronze 4s with the aim of a apex pred, but have had evenly matched fights with golds all the time.
That is the point to be had here, you don't get stuck at silver 1 because of your skill as a solo-que, you get stuck because of hot drops. Skill wise I should probably be stuck somewhere in gold, but its incredibly slow to escape silver 1 because of all the bronzes and even silvers that still hotdrop dragging you down with them. I have had golds as well I get matched with that are fed up with silvers and below because they too keep getting dragged down into hot drops.
I actually remember when I first climbed up from rookie during the last split and said "why are there so many golds in my lobby, that can't be fair." But now I realize that when I get melted on contact by someone with pred like skills, it actually tends to be a bronze player that does it. Meanwhile gold's tend to share my level of aiming skill.
First of all, I must clearify that when I say hot drops, I dont mean crazy hot drops with 5-6 other teams. I mean dropping in an area with 1-2 other teams, starting fairly spread out.
But I think you still are miss my point. When you say " you don't get stuck at silver 1 because of your skill as a solo-que, you get stuck because of hot drops." then yes you are correct. You could probably gain alot of RPs by dropping alone, play passively, wait for top 4 and then go for a strategical third party fight. But MY point is that playing like this, as a low elo player (no offense), is to shoot yourself in the foot, because it wont get better in Gold...And gold players who play like this and get promoted to Plat wont have an i easier time in Plat. So in a way, you are also incorrect with that statement. I would but it like this "IF you get stuck at silver 1 as a solo-que when hot dropping, you probably SHOULDNT go to gold yet, even if you could by playing passively and safe all time"
So all am saying is that I think low/mid elo players (which I would say are players who struggle figh-wise in bronze to gold) rather should take the opportunity to fight as much as they can while down in bronze/silver lobbies and NOT focus so much in cheesing their way to Gold. But once again; that is just MY opinion; people can play this game however they want =)
But whatever. Seems like we just look at the game totally differently. By best advice is to get two premades who also want to play more passively. That is really the only solution that works in your situation. And if you for some reason cant or wont play with premades, then I suggest that you play more egoistically. If your teammates jump hot, consider breaking away and do your thing. If your aggro teammates run too far in the fight, run the other way to safety =) But dont forget to mute the team channel if you are sensitive to insults hahah
PS just for the record; this game is terrible for solo queue and I wouldnt recommend that too anyone unless you are super tilt-proof. Bottom line; in solo queue ranked, you are the teams * so if you choose to play this game solo in ranked, then accept that or just mind your own business and only do whats best for you in every situation.
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