@Renegade_Prime86I totally a sympathize with you.
I play solo most of the time but party up to play with my brother occasionally. We are both trash cans, probably upper silver to low gold ranked if we put the time in to get there. We both play a lot so our levels are high, but we still suck. Level does not equal skill, but anyways . . .
Solo matchmaking is horrible. For some reason I get teammates much worse than me and/or opponents much better than me ALL THE TIME.
It is magnified when my brother and I play together. Somehow the game thinks that 2 silver/gold players with a random should be put in lobbies against diamond and up 3 stacks.
I want to play the game with my brother and have a good time but it is literally impossible like that. We don't have an LTM to jump into either and that makes it even worse.
I'm not sure if it's worse. I solo q for the most part and I run into a lot of masters and preds in my lobbies. The crappy part is...my teammates are usually very low level. They're not that good and they just push people by themselves and die.
I get to see this from several angles in my games. I queue regularly with my best bud ,who is a high skill player (previous seasons masters and high diamond). Our lobbies are brutal, he finds them much more difficult than his solo queue games. We used to get a lot of games that he could carry us through or that I could substantially contribute in,, but not very much anymore. What I've started doing with him is playing on a (reverse?) smurf account so that I'm not tanking my stats in lobbies well above my pay grade.
I also queue up with two guys who are at around my skill level, which I'd describe as on the low end of average. None of us has high kdr, but somehow the game thinks we're a UNIT. Lately I've begun solo queuing again (after taking a long break from it) to make up for these games dragging me down, and honestly my games are going very well there. I used to get lots of useless team mates when I solo queued, but lately the game matches me mostly with similarly skilled players. Sometimes it's clear that I'm the "carry player" as intended by the matchmaker, sometimes it's one of my team mates, and sometimes we're all about even.
We have good games with multiple kills and team fights won, but not a lot of wins. That's OK. Winning is fun and all but I'd rather see and feel my skill improving than win games. If I'm coming out of a session feeling good about having played, and improving my stats with a net positive kdr, that's good enough for me! The more I get these games that go to later zones, the more experience will help me improve at making my own decisions about zone rotation and playing in late zones in general.
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