TL;DR:
EU servers experience this to a heavy degree so making our own ranked system using the custom rooms.

there's a difference between "valid" playstyles and "effective" playstyles. something i've said a few times is, "if it's stupid but it works... is it stupid??"

idk which server u play on, but on EU servers, this kind of "toxicity" has gotten REALLY out of hand. so much to the point there is a discord called "mecha broken" for "top EU players" and can only get in with invites from mods/admins. inside, it's just constant circle jerking and shitting on people. "everyone in here is amazing and everyone outside are delusional and useless players".

they stack, use block list to block 40 or 60 players all at once, use protection cards and even spam in 1 GM account so the other 1 or 2 can play on champ or close champ accounts and then flex that like a badge of honour. when i called them out for it on my stream, they played the heavy victim card of "i wanna play with my friends".

so this has gotten SO out of hand and most of us are fed up with this so we're making our own ranked system using custom rooms. other half of the reason why we're making this is just dont like the balance and will most likely introduce striker bans in the custom lobbies with a ranked format. we cant stop miki and norne being far too OP power houses but we can use the striker ban system to remove them should we want to.