a player's rank should be based on their skill only

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His problem is with a significantly weaker team member is mechanically and strategically poor, but is carried on the elo ladder by significantly stronger teammates. It's not his skill getting him through the games, it's his teammates. He's not individually competitive, whether it's towards his premade team's success or as a solo player, but he's still rising because people are carrying him to an elo he doesn't really belong in.

Case and point, I work with a premade sometimes that has a decent top, a reasonable mid, decent intelligent junglers but this support that is total trash. When I see a 1/9/4 leona in a team full of 3/2/1's or 4/1/2's you have to think that one of those players isn't like the other. And it's that support. But if they keep winning as a team then he will rise with them when he individually doesn't belong in teh brackets they raise him to.

That's the issue people have with dynamic queue. People with poor individual performance will still rise to elo brackets they aren't indivudally qualified for. What's worse is a 4 man with that weak member that still can't win and brings down their solo member who might actually deserve to be at that elo but suffers due to a player who isn't of the same skill level.

Dynamic queue creates an environment in which members who belong n their elo can be dragged down by players who were essentially boosted by their better teammates. It's more a reward for having better friends than having better skills.

That is a case where that player very rarely plays separately from the rest of their team so you very rarely encounter them. It probably happens even less often than say, someone at your MMR queuing up while very tired causing them to play just as badly as that player despite their MMR.

Furthermore, that player who is significantly worse than their teammates is improving RAPIDLY as they play in those games because they have solid resources for learning and are challenged more heavily by their opponents. If they are a bronze player playing with golds, they will probably be good enough to be mid-silver within a coupld weeks and eventually gold themselves within a month or two.