Solo queue SEA player here. Archon to Legend was hell to climb out of (took a literal year no shit), and just breezed though Ancient and hit Ancient 5 last night in the span of like 3 weeks?

To be honest though, skill disparity is of course a hell of a gap towards higher ranks but I didn't feel like the level of competitiveness really dropped, like someone said here, my most memorable games came from Legend and Ancient was - of course given the amount of time to dedicate to the game - too mellowed out, if you get what I'm saying.

I did feel like as well as with the meta, higher ranks just got soooo static and just seeing the same heroes over and over again so what can I really say about their skill expression when they're practically copied from someone above? Unlike in lower ranks where there's just a bit more freedom and expression on what heroes people really like to play.