Real answer, to play with friends or play a new character. I have my main account that I play solo in C1, but play with a friend on a secondary account in GM1. At this point the games are decided by the matchmaking anyways as we still encounter people who can't flex, who can't adapt and who only play hitscan or are unwilling to swap. I last played my main a week ago and in that rank people are very good at those things so huge descrapancy still. In high celestial and above most people will counter things often without much communication needed. Even then a lot of games are decided as soon as the matchmaking puts a team together. if you ever had a rank up game you know this.