I'm not even just talking about getting "questionable" teammates. It goes the other way around as well. I'm gold 1 and just played a game against a plat player with an immortal 2 boarder? Like really? I'm sure it's different for higher ranks, which is probably why they made that change in radiant so that only wins/losses matter and nothing else.

But lower ranks are a completely different story. Every game is either stomp or be stomped. Either you have teammates who perform way below the standard of the lobby you're in, or you have a great team but the enemy team is just full of either smurf accounts or people who intentionally derank for whatever reason.

One guy on either team should not finish the game with a combat score that's +100 than the second person. This game needs to start taking more factors into consideration when ranking up/down. How do you compare to the average person at your rank? Are you much better? Much worse? If you're an outlier your rank needs to be more drastically affected in terms of performance.

Again, I'm not saying that I shouldn't be in gold. I've been this rank since Act 1 so obviously I'm a gold player and I'm where I belong. But every match feels completely unbalanced on one side or the other. I should not see someone with a diamond boarder or higher just like I shouldn't go afk in spawn for 30 seconds after the round start to get a drink and come back to the round won