Valorant Ultimate Act 1 Experience

Play a spike rush or death match or something. The amount of times I’ve had to ff an unrated because one of my teammates have to leave is infuriating. You have a general idea of how long each match will be. If you have to leave within that...

I just have a question, is it a feature in the game that you play against players from a rank higher than yours in all of your matches so that you get stuck in your rank and never get promoted?