
I tracked every ranked teammate's and opponent's peak rank during my push to Legendary 2
I recorded my entire push from legendary 1 to Legendary 2 and wrote down the rank of every teammate and opponent I got.
One thing really stood out:
Out of 32 games
I got only 2 Master teammates
Meanwhile, I faced Master opponents 19 different times. (3 of them masters II and above)
•I had 24 legendary III teammates
• And... faced 42 legendary III opponents
• I had 26 legendary II teammates
• and i faced 23 of them
• i played with 8 legendary I teammates
• and played against 12
And finally i had 4 mythic III teammates and I faced none
(they were playing with their higher ranked buddy
I'm not saying rank alone decides every match, I actually thought my randoms were decent before I started falling back to mythic
but it definitely felt strange seeing higher ranked players on the enemy team over and over while almost never getting one on my team even though i'm peak legendary I.
(I didn't record the losses after I fell back to mythic III)