I worked so hard just to get acolyte 4 (iron).
So I have played deadlock since release, now I don't know if this is the reason, but when I first started, I wasn't very good, as most people could relate since Deadlock is not an easy game to pick up on. All of my friends got into ranked over the last few months and in an effort to play with them I tried to lock in on standard mode and learn some core characters. I am usually pretty highly ranked in games (GM in Overwatch, Rivals, League, etc), but this game seemed to think I was playing at an Iron level.
Now I am not saying I deserve Gold or even Platinum, but I think I deserve to be where my friends are at in Silver, but now I have to grind through bronze and pretty much all of silver to be able to play with them. Some of them even went 2-6 in their placement games and got placed Silver. I don't really understand this, but I am already sick of solo queue climbing in other games and I'm afraid Deadlock is going to give me that same experience and I am going to be hardstuck in Bronze while my friends all duo queue with each other to higher ranks.
It's just quite disheartening. I am in no way trying to make this an ego post about how good I am, I genuinely have a lot to improve on, but I did not think that I was deserving of this placement, so I guess with this post I just wanted to see if there were anyone else in similar positions or could give me some hope based on my 8 matches (which are all included), and let me know where I could improve or just in general why anyone thinks I was placed here. (My friends are saying it's because it's taken the rank it thought I would be from when ranked came out, and I was wayyy behind my friends in skill level at that time because I wasn't as consistent as I am now, and nowhere near as consistent as they were.)
Thanks so much in advance if anyone has any tips or insight!