Randoms
Me and my friend mainly play ranked together, and right now we’re around Gold level. I normally play controller style characters because that fits my playstyle best, while my friend kinda rotates between whoever he feels like using. He does solid with multiple characters and doesn’t really have a main.
The biggest issue we keep running into is the random 3rd teammate. Yesterday especially, I noticed a pattern where randoms would basically just “run with their head down.” They’ll sprint across the map, sometimes even past loot, just waiting to hear gunshots. Then suddenly we’re getting dragged into fights in terrible positions.
A lot of our matches end up with us fighting 2 squads at once, or fighting 2v3 because the random wandered way off while we were still looting or trying to rotate safely. Sometimes me and my friend will land, loot and then realize the random is already halfway across the map pushing something alone.
We win some fights, but realistically we’re not pro players. A lot of these fights would probably go differently if our 3rd was actually with us. I’m actively trying to improve too. I’ve been working on aim, movement, positioning, and I recently hooked up my Elgato so I can record fights and review what I’m doing wrong afterward.
For people who climbed through ranked mostly as a duo, how do you handle this? Do you just fully commit to following randoms even when they make bad pushes, or is there a better way to manage games when your random teammate constantly overextends?