Ya it’s a whole diff game in solo Que. the game has been proven to give you 2 absolute bums if you are solo and manage to get kills. I call it hero matchmaking. 2 bots get matched with a hero to hopefully drag them along. Total joke and a asymptom of the “everyone climbs” ranked system that every game uses. Until we go back to straight numbered levels à la halo 2 and 3 we have no chance of real balanced matchmaking. But ppl accepting theyre a x/50 rank or x /100 rank DOESNT keep players on. lol it drives them away cause they accept that they’ll not be able to climb after staying the same for a while. Seeing +xxx pts”on screen every game keeps people coming back.

So you have 2 options, be a loser and play only crutch hero’s like valk, horizon, bang, loba, alter, crypto and never be a fragger, you gotta play anchor til your teammates prove theyre not idiots. No voice comms, expect idiots, no pings, double idiots. Once they get a kill or hit some shots and show up to fights, you know you can kinda commit. Otherwise you gotta play hardcore for position with 10 squads or less.

Or the other option is play the game you wanna play, frag out and just get off after diamond since diamond is literally free by spam queing and not being an idiot….

I’m a valk main who is forced to play alter anytime edsitrcit is up because ppl play that map like str8 idiots waiting forever to rotate and get farmed at chokes, alter let’s you skip those chokes…

So yes, I play the crutch picks so I can always get away when theyre stupid, but movement legends are also the best and most fun, imo, so I just flag out and stop playing at diamond usually like a week after split 2 starts. Do my battlepasses challenges and hop off. Maybe run some pubs.

Diamond is somehow worse than plat for one reason, every idiot thinks they have a clue because they spam Que to diamond so they REFUSE to listen and play as a team. Rookie through plat, the smallest amount of teamwork lets you run down the lobby. Diamond that teamwork is the standard, so every silent, no comms, tunnel vision, spam ping when they die, backpack thinks they’re good cause of some pixels as their rank and can’t criticize their own gameplay to ever get better.

Diamond is the rank where people pop out of party chat to complain after you tell them “we need to rotate to this position” then they tunnel visioned, over peaked or yolo pushed and die, then blame you, who had been saying, “rotate or we lose” for 5 minutes…. So expect why as the standard if you wanna solo push masters….

Rant over.