Why is Ranked so brutal?
I'm not the best player, but I would definitely consider myself above average. I have 500+ hours in the game, I've played every class in all kinds of different builds and playstyles, I often get 10+ kills per game, and I focus on the objective. Yet somehow I can't seem to win in 90% of my games and barely make it to round 2, I'm hard stuck in silver and it feels like my opponents are all pros.
The game is so swingy and there's so much third partying that we often lose even when we're ahead, simply because we can't defend against 2-3 teams back to back.
I queue with my friends and we definitely make mistakes that cost us games, but we also have tons of games that we play really well, often better than other teams, but we lose because of third party RNG or a single mistake that costs the whole game. It's just so unforgiving.
I've also tried solo queueing and that's even worse! Leavers, light players ignoring the objective etc. I just don't understand how it's possible to progress RS consistently without a cracked team.
Must have played 10+ hours this weekend and went from 19k RS down to 15k. It's just brutal, and I was Plat in season 2, it never felt this difficult but now apparently everyone is a pro except my teammates.
Editing to add this for additional context:
Me and my friends have literally brainstormed tactics to try and reduce mistakes, and have premade plans to reduce panic and scrambling for different situations.
We always play from the high ground to have advantage in fights.
We rarely try to touch the first vault before the enemy since we almost always get there at the same time, and focus on getting good positioning instead to kill them, then take the vault after.
We play "meta", no nonsense. MMM or MMH.
We stick together and often get minimum 5-6 kills per person, per game.
When Attacking, we always try to have better positioning (ie: Never enter the room from the same level it's on, always try to come from above, or Demat from below). When defending we always drop the Cashout box a level if we can, and stay above it, trying to make sure we're at the highest point so no one can get the high ground on us.
Not sure what else we can do... If you have any other tips please share them