Need advice for playing comp with friends
I'm pretty new to playing competitive overwatch. I used to play comp a lot when the game first came out, but have basically just played quickplay with friends since.
Recently, my 3 friends and I have started playing comp and enjoying it. My 3 friends ranks range from high silver to low plat. For about 2 months, I only played comp games when at least one of them was playing with me. Recently, I decided I wanted to play some games by myself and noticed something. I was winning almost every single game. I kept ranking up and up and up until i hit plat 3 from somewhere in silver and decided to stop.
Around this time, I had started wanting to improve at my role as I'm the only dps player in my friend group and started watching a lot of coaching videos and even started tracking my games and taking notes. I have done this for about a week now, playing an average of 10 games a day.
The stats say that when I play with friends we win ~40% of games vs when I play by myself I win ~65%. In this week, I played more comp games by myself and went into diamond 5 and almost into diamond 4 before stopping my session. Today, I played with friends and immediately lost 5 comp games in a row where we got absolutely stomped. My friends were not having fun at all, and I was also very irritated.
I think that as my rank went up, the people we were matched with got better and the match quality got severely worse. This has been the case the last 3 or so days when I played with friends. We lose 3 in a row and win 1 or lose 2 win 1. With each of those losses being steamrollers and the wins being extremely tough where I have to play out of my mind.
I'm not sure how to fix this, is there anything I can do to improve the quality of games? Are there specific times where less sweaty players tend to play at to make things a little easier?