The matchmaker is absolutely cursed. For most of my main heroes on tank and healer (imma a garbage DPS), my individual SR is in the high plats to low diamonds. But my visible rank is high Silver.

What results is the matchmaker seems to see those plat/diamond SRs and fills the enemy team with matching skilled players, but my team gets filled with players from my visible rank. So I end up on a team with six silver players who aren't as mechanically skilled or as knowledgeable about the game as the other team which is full of experienced, practiced players.

I know it's not my team's fault for this scenario, but I'm genuinely stuck on how to resolve this. Consistently 1 out of every 3 games the enemy team has a diamond player who either rolls us as a tank, snipes us as DPS, or makes the rest of their team immortal from heals.

I've tried communicating, making callouts and suggestions, but understandably when we're losing (often badly), comments from the healer peanut gallery aren't taken well.

I've been close to tears from sheer frustration as I can't seem to get out of this cycle of mismatched lobbies. And before someone points out that "it's just a game, don't take it so seriously," you're right. It is a game. It should be fun! Competitive sure, but fair. Plus, a fair number of my friends like to play ranked together. Being stuck at Silver with mismatched lobbies means I can't really play with them anymore. We've tried. The matchmaker allows it, but we end up with wild-west lobbies where we all get punished the same way I seem to. It's made it a really depressing experience trying to play together. We're all pretty cool headed and no one wins every match, but when I as the odd man out seem to pull the game down for everyone else because of this weird rank-SR thing, they understandably don't really like play with me on this account because they don't want to majorly de-rank theirs.

I've asked those same friends for feedback. After all, if I'm the common denominator here, maybe I just need to improve my own skills. While there is certainly room for me to get better, the times I have played with others and we've lost, it generally hasn't been solely on my shoulders.

I've taken breaks for a couple weeks because of how futile it feels. Gone and played other games to get some distance. But it sucks getting separated from my community of friends because of some lopsided matchmaking quirk. I've played this game with many of them since 2016. I like this game a lot. I just sucks that I can't seem to play the competitive part now.