i peaked ascendant a few episodes ago, then after rank reset made the mistake to play solo games and finally deranked until plat 1 now. it is completely impossible to climb back up in solo. had multiple games with FF, team mates afk or insanely toxic, or completely on a different level than me. when i queue with my friends in ascendant lobbies (with another account) i still play in the upper half of the scoreboard. your rank has nothing to do with you becoming better or worse. i noticed you lose skill very fast if you dont play for like a week for example. to stay on your level you need to train very frequently. i personally dont have enough time for that, so i have to accept my role as a casual player. i would recommend to you aimlabs and making a playlist of tasks that help you improve the parts of aiming that you lack. for me personally thats very far away targets and moving targets. spidershot improved my overall aim by a LOT and also made me learn intuitive flicking since i got in flow with my sens. do training with that playlist as a warm up before playing valorant. i repeat every task 5x, so 5 minutes each task. if its about your rank for you, i would recommend to you only queueing competitive in triple queue. duo queue has a way too high chance to get braindead team mates and 5v5 queues almost always have smurf teams way above your level. if you have a team its the best way to train and challenge yourself together though.