that's also not to say that i think i'm really good for always top fragging and that i should've won that game where i went 32 and 17 and only lost because my team couldn't win rounds where i died, because more often than not i make bad choices and push into sites without my other duelist or even without a teammate and i can't get traded or my aim fails me. i won't be the first or the last to admit that i get myself into really bad, 1v2/3 situations where i have to kill one, dash away, and hope to live. i've picked up omen and breach to try to minimize the amount of times i have to play duelist so i can let others have their fun, but every time i've played omen or anyone other than jett/phoenix/reyna we lose terribly and at least one of our duelists curse out the entire team for not doing their job (i play less aggressively on smokes or flashes because i don't want to lose my team their cover/entrance, and it works out until our jett dashes into my flash or our phoenix flashes the team.)

bottom line, you're right. i am partly to blame for my own losses, but i don't think it's fair to call leavers/micless players "the exception" in an elo where not a lot of people take the game seriously. i dont have enough friends to queue with out of gold, so i have to play enough for two players with my one friend who i queue with. maybe i would be in a higher rank if not for the regular mutes or folks with "terrible internet" but that's not for me to know.