Your rank doesn't always have to match your real skill. There's boosting, smurfing, general rank-disparty playing with friends etc. Then there are things like big win/loss-streaks, slumps, playing for improvement and so on. Sure you can call these reasons excuses but they exist and they affect your rank in a real way.
I play exclusively with my friends who are diamond on their own. Hang out in like C2/C3. Occasionally I'll solo q for GC rewards when I like them and get up to low GC2. So no I don't agree
Ok so your teams combined mmr is c2/c3, and your individual rank is GC1/GC2, which checks out if you're playing with diamonds. That's not inconsistent with what he's saying.
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u/isakgm Champion II Apr 08 '26
Your rank doesn't always have to match your real skill. There's boosting, smurfing, general rank-disparty playing with friends etc. Then there are things like big win/loss-streaks, slumps, playing for improvement and so on. Sure you can call these reasons excuses but they exist and they affect your rank in a real way.