What is up everyone. As the title states, I am relatively new to tactical shooters. I played a little of CS:GO with my brother, but ever since I got into the Valorant beta i've been playing as much as I can. I've been hard stuck silver for some time now, getting to gold early on before quickly being sent back down, and I haven't been able to get out of silver since. Funny enough I am definitely better now than I was in Act 1 when I actually made gold. I get the main concepts of the game, I don't get kill thirsty, I play my role (I know the damn Sova lineups for all maps IN SILVER) I communicate with my team (although often they hardly communicate back in my elo) I play site, I reangle if I don't get an initial kill, I don't peek the same angle or awps. My crosshair is always placed close to where I think the enemy may be. I've watched countless and countless videos and guides but climbing has been a bitch and a half. I aimlab for 30-40 minutes before loading the game and hitting the range (I need to improve my aim and that is seemingly the only thing improving), and a couple DMs. I just want to know if this is a "normal" amount of time spent trying to get up into the higher elo's. I'm not gunning for radiant, i'd be perfectly fine with plat/diamond, just any rank where I get teammates that also understand how the game is played. I feel like I'm missing out of the tactical part of the shooter getting dropped into games with people who don't play objective or as a team and just run out to frag. It's getting pretty annoying. I've enjoyed the journey thus far and I don't plan on quitting, I will grind through this if I have to (and its looking like I have to) but I just want to know if anyone has had a similar experience.

EDIT: I do not think I’m not to blame at all, I don’t think I’m good at the game but I do feel that sometimes my rank does not reflect my understanding of the game. I’m working on my aim every day to get better because that’s definitely where I let myself down the most.