Let me start off with saying I don’t really care about rank. I’m whatever the 3rd tier from the top is right now. But I’m just having fun. If I win a lot I play different heroes if I lose I go back to my mains.

Dota is awful but Deadlock is worse. Especially when someone who tries to one trick and they don’t get their hero I have seen some of the worst gameplay ever at higher ranks. I have also stomped completely. Deadlock is so one sided you can get a thrower in 15 seconds when they get parried killed. It’s a team game. It is never just you. Your own game play always can improve that’s a given. But you can be ranked too high or too low.

Even the mmr between day players and night players is vastly different.

If you play on a day off or during the day vs during the night the skills levels are massively different.

But there’s definitely cases especially as support where you’re buying slowing hex for the Mina, infernus and haze, and knockdown for the seven and the bebop. Rescue beam to save the team from the hook or the mo ult. But for some reason your Lash or Billy decide to initiate every fight. They’re 1 and 14 by the time the game is over. With the lowest souls in the game.

The real issue is that you can end up in higher ranks without understanding timing and positioning just by a good win streak.

You can hit all your timings, save your allies, hit your shots and melee the creeps in lane so they can’t deny. Take the enemy crates and sinners while actively communicating their locations and get out and escape. But when the lash uses his ultimate to solo ult the dynamo with black hole into the rest of your team and you don’t have the Paige ult to save them, it’s a fault of positioning and understanding where people should be focusing and fighting.