@3rdFloorer In my opinion, the rank system is much better than S19 and a lot of players, (including pros), disliked the S19 ranked system. It made no sense and it heavily punished players who solo q'ed. Everytime I entered the qualifiers to rank up, I would always get teammates who acted like they never played a game before in their whole entire life. Meanwhile the enemy teams were all 2-3 ranks higher than me, pre-stacked, and some of them had cheats enabled.
The issue now, is the matchmaking. The game seems to purposely give you new or bot teammates and put you in matches against the best of the best players, or ones using cheats, expecting you to fully clutch a 1v3 every single fight. This is where you're having the issue. Its the matchmaking, not the system. Sure, S19 kept a lot of awful players in the lower ranks, yet some of them would just get boosted or they played with a cheater. Also, the matchmaking would still give you teammates of a much lower rank on purpose at times. So even when you had hit diamond and up, I'm sure you still saw rookie to gold teammates on your squad from time to time.
In other words: the rank challenges that gatekept players only stopped them from ranking up, but not from being in your matches, either on your team, or on the enemy team.
The game needs to lean more into SBMM rather than EOMM or whatever system it uses. EA/Respawn claims it uses SBMM, but if it truely did use SBMM, I wouldn't be in diamond, master, or pred lobbies 99.9% of the time. I'm more a casual plat player, and I also wouldn't get teammates who are bots or are so bad, they're dead the moment a fight starts. Yet, I do get lower skilled teammates and go up against high skilled enemies, and from what I've heard, I'm not the only one having this issue. A lot of players who post on the forums complain about the exact same issue, which is why I think its a matchmaking problem and not a rank system problem.
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