Alright hope you are all fine today.

I have recently reached platinum and made it into plat two. I am proud of this as I've spent nearly 2 years trying to break out of silver and then gold and it was a journey.

Now in plat, in basically 9/10 games I've noticed a common trend: Playing to fill.

Weve all been in the situation with the insta lock duelist telling people who to play to fit their team but from what I've been seeing it's been the opposite (I can't talk for everyone this is my experience)

We had a game that which we were basically 4 V 5 nearly the whole game. Now certain mechanics aside and the fact the jett was clearly a smurf (their rank was Gold 1 but they play basically like immortal) they did poorly on defence. That being said, omen on our team wasn't playing good at all. Their final KDA was set at 8 / 23 / 0

On defence : They smoked our mid entrance and cubby / tree entrance on Ascent, which made it easier for the team to peak and force us out. Then when told to do the other entrances, it was one smoke at a time. It wasn't bad but the issue was they played mid basically the entire time and had control of it,due to the lack of smokes, it was easy entry on the enemy behalf.

On attack : it seemed that they were unsure where to smoke, when they did it was very early and the enemy team. Basically had us pinched due to it.

Now I understand people have bad days and I can take that into account but while I was spectating omen, they had good cross hair placement and Game sense but the issue was is that they played an agent they clearly don't know anything about.

That being said, the play for fill is a huge hindrance to RR also. From what I've been having issues with people who play to fill, their loss affects mine too. If they are say Gold and I am Plat, I may do significantly better than them BUT due to the fact we lost and I had a gold on the team, that is on me to do well better than them AND the enemy team which if I dont, puts me at -22 to - 25 RR. This is a huge annoyance that I find difficult to work around.

In short, the issues at hand need addressing. I think one way of solving to play for fill is that everyone gets some sort of tracker (E. G Valorant Tracker) or such. This isn't sponsored at all. This is just to give people and understand of their best agents and to play them. I'm aware people have insta lockmains too but this will allow people to have a back up also so they know what they can fall back on, not a play to fill.

I'd rather we win as a team of people who know who they play versus people playing agents for the sake of filling a role in which they aren't comfortable or played before.