Skill squish in kyber 1 is 100% real. I used to be in kyber 1, lose 1 battle and drop to kyber 2. I would have to win 3 to 6 battles in a row to get back up to kyber 1. I completely gave up on it because of how ridiculous it is. There's no reason that if you lose one battle out of 5 you get demoted. I have won when I was low in kyber 1 and got demoted to kyber 2 because I missed the threshold by less then 10 points.
Cg won't do anything about it, it is what it is. And it's not a huge difference in crystals on a weekly basis. Only part that hurts is end of event pay outs.
