I feel that climbing Ranks with competitive matches is inherently skewed due to the sheer amount of alt accounts.
I have reached master for a while in every role, and am able to consistently reach and maintain that rank.
However something I have noticed is that, the climb out of diamond is often filled with matches that cannot be put otherwise than skewed.
I either end up with a ''suspicious'' player or the enemy team does, to the point I started keeping track in an excel sheet to be able to hold a number to the amount of ''confirmed alts'' in these matches.
Confirmed is in this context, either admitted by said player or the account was public and the amount of hours are around 30-50.
My findings were that in my last 30 games
- 18 Confirmed alts were observed
- 10 Unconfirmed alts (level 2 honor - default skin - default pictures)
- 7 of which when confronted admitted to be using an alt
So at the atleast low end, we have a number of 18 alts in 30 competitive games from D5 to M4.
Which is a staggering 60% of matches.
Seeing how big the skill discrapency is in these ranks, the impact a higher ranked player can make is at least noticeable to fully opppressive in extend, which in turn then create skewed matches so to say.
To add, the first time I reached masters was precisely by this reason, several games where the alt-account was on my team and thus resulted in me winning games and placed in an rank I was definetly not suppose to be, which became very clear in the matches that followed that werent ''skewed'' in my favor.
I feel like the intergrity of the competitive mode might be severely degraded, people incidently boosted and/or deranked to the artificial factors brought on by these accounts.
However I am only one of many players and thus can be an isolated incident,
Feel more then free to share your own personal opinions and experiences regarding this in the comments below.