same MMR but not the same skillset. the skill gap still exists :/

I believe your perception of this post and these comments are incorrect.

Again (as mentioned for the third time), this post is about the matchmaking system balance. We are not here to brag about how teammates caused us to lose a game or how they hard-stuck silver. We are not even talking about the games itself, just the placement gap.

Different people have different play styles. Not to mention different tools for different people, no one pill treats all diseases. This post is not about me losing the game or “bragging about how my teammates trolling” or making me lose or hard-stuck silver. This post is about the matchmaking balance in s2023.

I won a game with a plat on my side and still, I still feel bad for the other team because it should have been a lower-mid silver game.

I cannot agree anymore.

I did read a lot of comments like what you said and I am doing that already.

I do believe that ranks do make a difference in low elo, even if it is small/tiny/negligible to the point that high elo players have been saying. Minor differences such as when to join team fights, using the map, income, mechanics, cs/min (this one is important!), etc. are the dividing factors I can tell apart from bronze to low-upper mid silver (cannot say about ranks higher than gold). It is the proficiency of these concepts combined that differs from low elo ranks to ranks (known as the skill gap). Please do note that the proficiency I am talking about refers to the fundamental concepts, not the advanced ones. I believe the high elo is all about advanced mechanics and more.

I also do believe that players who play ranked will want to climb up, as that’s what makes ranked different from blind or draft pick.

However, the main complaint here is not about hard stuck in low elo. It’s about the balancing of the matchmaking system (troll/placement diff in a team) that we low elo players have to deal with for no reason.