I am a gold 3, and I was going for solo, and I got teammates with bronze ranks. They don't even let us party bronze 2 / 3 with gold 3. How is this possible? Once on last act, I was platinum, and I got a teammate with bronze 3, which is not...

I've been playing valorant for few months now and am in low elo as I don't grind comp. Goto settings in-match and enable the mute enemy chat. This setting gets saved and auto applies every match. This makes no difference in your gameplay...