Playing with friends. Terrible idea.

@TheTrafficKingThat exists already. Some sessions my win rate is over 10%, my daily k/d ratio reaches almost 2, while in others I go hours without kills. I've had sweaty fights, boring matches, wins with 0 kills, losses with 5-6-7 kills, games with 1800+ damage for 1 kill, 1400+ and no kills or barely above 500 damage for 8 kills. Also, I didn't notice any particular pattern, sometimes I had good games rolling for hours, other times consecutive wins and top 3 placements, wins at the beginning of my session, at the middle or towards the end. This is obviously a variation in difficulty, partly caused by SBMM and partly randomness.

@DoYaSeeMeThis is the antithesis of my experience. Its almost always getting stomped with 0-2 kills. In a 3 hour night I would estimate about 60% of my games are killed with less than 500 damage and no more than 2 kills. 35% are 1-3 kills with 500-1200 damage. And maybe 5% are solid performances with 3-7 kills and 800+ damage. I also used to win 1-2 games a night. Now I might win one game every 2-3 nights. Sometimes I win two in a night and then I go a week without a win. Its ridiculously random to where I pretty much don't expect to win anymore.

Obviously I am not a pro but I experienced way more solid games in prior seasons and no I haven't gotten worse. The matchmaking was not this punishing until mid season 5 and this season its absolutely gone from bad to pure tomf*ckery.