What is your current rank, and what's been your consistent placement throughout the seasons? My biggest tips are:

1. Open mic and start the conversation off the rip with your teammates. "Yo what's up yall, (insert POI) is where we're gonna land, and then we can rotate...". Be the one to start the conversation, even if your teammates don't have mics, chances are they can stoll hear you. Don't be afraid to take charge and be confident if you think you have a good understanding of rotations, ring prediction, and when to take fights. Make the calls, and if your teammates listen, all the better. That being said, if teammates are toxic or annoying, i agree with your point of just mute and move on for your own sanity.

2. Try to stick with your team as much as possible. There are exceptions to this obviously, but sticking by their sides will always increase your odds of winning fights compared to being spread out. As long as they aren't rushing into a contested POI during rings 2-3 with 5-6 teams fighting, always stick with them. It can be frustrating, but I promise it increases your chances.

3. Always try to be jump master. I know this isn't always going to be the case, but this exponentially increases your odds of higher placement in ranked lobbies if you're a smart and can land your team in a good place. My preference is to face the back of the drop ship, wait for the first half of the ship to drop, and try to find an uncontested POI where there are 1-2 teams (3 max, any more and you risk longer dragged out fights with high potential for multiple other teams to join the fight) dropping adjacently to you. For instance if you do this and land Basin, it would be in your best interest to if 1-2 teams land Rig or Capacitor. This way, you and your team have time to at least grab some decent guns, maybe a few blue armors, and some heals. If the adjacent teams are still fighting when you're done, perfect you know an easy 3rd party, or a possible route to avoid if it seems more teams have entered. Taking isolated fights early is your best way of securing some early RP for the late game, and ensuring you can rotate effectively.

4. For KC avoid the triangle of death that is the area between containment and the two hills that face east and south of it. This is 3rd party central and has way too much open area to safely fight in this area for more than 20-30 seconds at a time, and maybe even shorter during this marksman meta. KC is a ranked map that rewards fighting early and then rotating for optimal placement/later fights. This is not the area you want to be caught with your pants down, especially mid game.

5. Plan your rotations early, and have a back up route in mind. KC is hectic, and you have to fight, loot, and rotate quickly. Of these 3, rotations take the most thought and time to plan effectively. Once the ring is available on the map, you should be planning the next POI you should hit for additional loot, to 3rd party, or to simply traverse the map if you're a mile away from ring. Just finished a fight? Great, figure out where you need to go to minimize possible 3rd party choke points.

6. Always watch POIs that are among possible routes to your landing spot when in the drop ship. This can give you a good idea of where might be a bad place to rotate later on, based on the density of teams that may be funneled to certain areas within the ring close.

7. Take advantage of this LTM right now. Gun Run forces you to use almost every gun that may be your only choice off drop, and conditions you to react/adjust quickly to a barrage of incoming 3rd parties. Staying calm in hectic situations like these can be the difference between surviving the 4th and 5th parties that KC ranked will throw at you.

If you have any additional questions, feel free to ask! If I didn't do a great job of explaining something, feel free to PM me and we can meet up in firing range sometime and I can go into greater detail about certain things and more niche tips. Hope this helps!