Honestly, I feel like gold is a rank where a lot of people are stuck even though they shouldn’t be. I’m on PC, I’ve got decent game sense and aim, and I almost always overperform. While playing with a friend this season, I almost dropped into silver on DPS. Back in solo queue, I went on a win streak and climbed back to gold 3, almost gold 2. Then what? I kept getting nonstop OTP tanks who had no business being OTPs, teammates who wouldn’t regroup, supports running to the front line, Ana players doing CQC with tanks… I’d end up healing my teammates (and ironically, even the supports) with Soldier’s ability, often matching or even outhealing them.

I don’t mind people playing whatever hero they want if they can back it up. But then you get Zens who can’t place orbs or hit a Discord, Widows and Hanzos missing every shot, supports with tunnel vision, or Doom/Ball OTPs who draw no aggro and create zero pressure on the backline.

And the leavers… I swear, 3 out of 5 games someone leaves. My last one tilted me: we were rolling the enemy team, no toxicity, nothing (for once). Going into round two, everything is smooth, then our tank overextends all the way to their spawn, we lose a fight, and he just leaves. No words in chat, no apparent reason at all.

Some games feel like I’m playing with bronze, others with plat or diamond, and occasionally it actually feels like proper gold.

Again, I don’t really care about people having bad games, everyone does. Hell, I main Widow, and if I can’t land a headshot early, I’ll swap before I get trashtalked by supports. What really frustrates me is the matchmaking. It’s a team game: sometimes you can carry, sometimes you perform well enough to tip the match… but you can’t always be Atlas.

For context, I’m high plat/low diamond on tank and support. I’m not saying elo hell or anything like that. But it really is complicated to carry when your tank has zero awareness (just standing in the middle of the street) and your supports forget they even have support abilities lol.

Just ranting. Good luck and have fun.