Me and nitehawk1971 play together a lot. Neither of us play ranked, I don't because I'm not that good and Nite doesn't have the time.
We played duos last night, rarely got a single kill between the 2 of us and only lasted about 10 minutes in a game.
I'm the higher level between us and when I play with pubs I'm usually matched with newcomers or very low level players and we usually graph at the far left of the levels. My team ends up fighting against much higher ranked players that show up well past the curve on the graph and it's usually a massacre of my team. The system isn't balancing player skill any more, to me it looks like we end up as "fillers" for the matches and skill be damned.
For us casual players the game has become unwinnable because we don't stand a chance against Master and Pred level players who just want to farm kills. And the smurf accounts are unreal right now. Get in a game and the champion is a level 1-5 who ends up wiping half the lobby and the higher level ranked players take out the other half.
Apex, fix your stuff.