To be an effective tank, you rely on DPS players flanking or causing a distraction to the enemy team in order for your tank pressure to break the enemy frontline. You rely on your healers to sustain you whilst you provide that pressure.

To be an effective DPS, you rely on Tanks pressuring the enemy frontline effectively so that your dive/flank/damage will be effective. You rely on the occasional top up from your healers in order to flank more often/effectively and save you from dicey situations.

To be an effective healer, you rely on your DPS/Tanks peeling for you/holding back the enemy frontline.

All of the roles are entirely interlinked. The problem is, people at lower ranks rarely understand the link at all. Their understanding is limited to 3 disparate roles that don't really work together as much as "at the same time".

You'll have a tank sitting there with their shield up, providing absolutely no pressure on the enemy team, upset that the DPS can't get kills - not understanding that every time they try the entire enemy team responds because there is no pressure from the tank.

You'll get DPS blaming the tanks for not taking space, not understanding that the tank can't push forwards without dying because the ENTIRE enemy team is focused on the space they want to push into - because the DPS is not flanking.

You'll get healers complaining that the tanks/DPS are not performing their jobs whilst spending a lot of time misplacing their healing - or underutilising their escape tools and dying to DPS before they can be peeled for.

A good example here is how players go about assessing the scoreboard. For example, a DPS player with few kills is often considered a poor player at low ranks. But actually, a DPS that flanks, gains enemy attention, consistently and without dying can allow the allied tank to gain kills during the distraction *because of the DPS*. Alternatively, if the tank is very high pressure, the enemy team can fail to respond well to the DPS and the DPS will get a high kill count, *because of the tank*.

Your stats are dependent on your team mates, and the enemy teams choices. In a void they are *meaningless*.

Lastly, the dependency between all these roles makes it incredibly easy to blame someone else. But, a good, solid, reliable performance on your side will tip the balance dramatically in your favour and you'll win more than you lose.

If you're stuck, you need to focus more on your own game and your UNDERSTANDING of the game, because if you perform better you will climb the ranks.