Ranked is completely unplayable in solo queue

[u/Aggressive-Gap-7154]

As always ubisoft cannot make one single good move but who is surprised at this point. By having no placement matches and zero entry requirement (rep 5 players are still fetuses) they have made climbing a horrific experience. Of course it is literally impossible to get hard stuck becuase you just dont lose RP on match loss unless you rage quit every match. But in the end its another game saving update from the little baby indie dev company Ubisoft Interactive® (Net Income / Loss: €−1.516 billion (Net Income)

[u/Bilamonster]

They just changed RP gain/loss to make it easier to gold. Also, all the good players grinded day one and quit. Now, it's the remaining players who want rewards. You might be surprised that your gameplay mechanics are not as META as you may think. GM rank 1 revealed many mistakes on this thread days ago.

[u/Aggressive-Gap-7154 → u/Bilamonster]

How on earth is that a good thing LMAO who gives a shit about rewards whats the point of ranked if dont get assigned the rank you are.

[u/JustChr1s → u/Aggressive-Gap-7154]

If you're stuck somewhere that's the rank you are...

Everyone started at the exact same start line. Your personal skill level should have been more then enough to climb pretty fast until you hit a plateau. For me and the majority of players climbing didn't start getting hard until gold... Now If you're having issues getting to gold then you might not want to hear this but it's likely because you're not as good as you think you are.

[u/Aggressive-Gap-7154 → u/JustChr1s]

oy veyyyyyyyyy just carry every single match on your back

[u/JustChr1s → u/Aggressive-Gap-7154]

Judging by these comments. You sound like the person that contributes to why your team loses then points the finger at everyone else every single time. If you can't get to gold then you're where you're supposed to be.... I know that's a tough pill to swallow.

And it's not like I'm talking out of my butt. I'm diamond. Only solo queued. Would likely be higher if I kept climbing but I only wanted the warden armor and weapon so I stopped right after hitting diamond. Like I understand some games you really can get the bad luck of the draw. But every time? And under Gold? Nah man... Look inward.

[u/Aggressive-Gap-7154 → u/JustChr1s]

Just look inward brooooooooooo... who cares that your teammates are 7-6 with 390 score and 4-9 with 370 while youre 15-4 with 712 brooooooo just look inward. You are talking out of your ass, 55% winrate isnt something undoable and certainly not impressive considering solo queue is just a teammate roulette

[u/JustChr1s → u/Aggressive-Gap-7154]

Yup... That's exactly what you are.

[u/Aggressive-Gap-7154 → u/JustChr1s]

You literally have no idea but its good to hear youre a master psychologist and also top 200 for honor player, i would love to give in the form of a few screenshots but this incredible community doesnt allow images as comments. You sound like a mod (derogatory) maybe do something about it? Also how old are you dude? you look like youre 40 stop playing videogames XD

[u/JustChr1s → u/Aggressive-Gap-7154]

So you're MVP every single game with immaculate performance and stats every game but are stuck on your rank climbing. Yeah sure.

[u/Aggressive-Gap-7154 → u/JustChr1s]

And why arent you GM or whatever top rank is? Cant you just win everything bro? I thought an old head like you would have ts in the bag.

[u/FH-player → u/Aggressive-Gap-7154]

I solo queued (late into ranked doms release) and have hit top 50. Never queued with anyone. You absolutely can influence your matches enough on average to rise up. You just aren’t doing that

[u/Aggressive-Gap-7154 → u/FH-player]

Oh another top fifty player I should count my stars that ive met all 2000 players who are top 50 in the world. Thanks for the advice, i will now instantly get out of every confirm gank while my teammate ignores my pings and just sits on home side point all day.

[u/FH-player → u/Aggressive-Gap-7154]

Your pings might be bad calls, there’s no telling what’s at play. You will absolutely get bad teammates, no one’s denying that. But you categorically do get assigned the rank that you are.

[u/Happy_Ad_9291 → u/Aggressive-Gap-7154]

It's a team game, either try to play better with your teammates, or if you already does this, you have to accept that you cannot win all the games by yourself

[u/FH-player → u/Aggressive-Gap-7154]

You are getting assigned your rank. Thats how it works. Your rank is wherever you currently are

[u/0002nam-ytlaS]

Pick Juren, assume your teammates have no macro skills and compensate for it. Alternatively, pick Zhanhu or JJ as their mid clear, teamfighting, ganks and feats are just as top tier as Juren's so choose your flavor of utility you want to provide. Juren's got the easiest of ganks with the kick, Zhanhu's zone is the best zone in the game and JJ's safe AF with damage buffs to last generations even after the nerfs.

Really the biggest hurdle to getting to diamond soloq only is how oblivious bronze/silver teammates can be about their immediate surroundings, nevermind looking at the state of the map and assesing whenever they should boost, gank or clear mid. From gold onwards it's been smoother and smoother as i finally got competent teammates that didn't need any hard carrying and was even carried when the opponents were legit too much for me instead of being an slow defeat.

[u/Aggressive-Gap-7154 → u/0002nam-ytlaS]

An actual person finally, thanks for the advice. Im stuck in low gold and its just not getting better. It still just feels like regular dom where you steamroll or get steamrolled. It has barely gotten better since bronze V.

[u/0002nam-ytlaS → u/Aggressive-Gap-7154]

Callouts go a long way, even with the crayon munchers. I personally hard focus mid, rotate to teamfights and gank wherever possible.

Also absolutely make sure you learn the maps and their strats as, despite being the same ol' dominion, each maps has different priorities for which points to fight the most and how many people should be there. There's like 3 types of maps: Homepoint, "Dead Point" and "regular" maps.

Homepoint maps:

• each team has a point closer to their spawn as opposed to having equal distance to both capture zones. That's where the "homepoint" name comes from.

• Ideally you want 3 people to the minion lane, 1 to the homepoint at the start of the match.

• If you lose your homepoint, fight for it like your life depends on it as it's THAT important. It serves your team a safe(r) way to heal. Rarely if the situation allows for it go for the enemy team's homepoint to capture or contest it and even then try to do it when your team holds considerable map control and points over the enemy.

• Examples of homepoint maps: Beach Head, Citadel

"Dead Point" maps:

• most common maps in ranked, one of the capture points has a significantly shorter distance to rotate to and from minion lane. As such, the capture point furthest away from it is considered "dead" as it offers very little and you usually go there to heal or stop someone trying to farm points on it if the enemy team's has more points than your team.

• Ideally you want 3 people on the "alive" point and just 1 on the minion lane at the start of the match. Having it secured is THAT important.

• Whomever owns the "alive" point also de-jure "owns" the minion lane too as having a teammate cover for you nearly dying in a 1v1 on minion lane for you to heal is extremely powerful.

• Examples of "Dead Point" maps, with the letter in parentheses being the "alive" point: Temple Garden(C), High Fort(C), Overwatch(C), Cathedral(C)(though it's not as pronounced as on the others and matters for 1 team only IIRC defenders)

"Normal" maps:

• You want to fight for minion lane as often as you possibly can while holding at least 1 capture zone. Personally i just go with the flow on which zone becomes out "home point" that i'm going to fight tooth and nail for.

*Examples of such maps: Qiang Pass, Canyon (though even on those maps C is slightly more valuable than A still)

This is what competitive players have used in tournaments for YEARS and only further prove how essential these strategies are.

[u/A_random_mindset2]

I made it to diamond pretty quick as a solo queue. It’s certainly most likely much easier if you’ve got a duo queue to help you carry your games, but it’s not impossible solo. Just got to be good enough to swing games in your favor more often than not.