I am currently Bronze 1 and I've been struggling getting out of bronze into silver. I worked my way to the ladder got rank 3 and lost 2 games then fought back up. I wanted to know would I have better luck duo or single que?
The duo queue MMR adjustment is really hard to make up for. You won't unless you're in voice comms, know each other's playstyle very well, and have good synergy.
In my personal experience, I duoed with a friend from gold 4 to gold 1, but we couldn't get into plat as a duo. Then we went solo, and not only did we both get into plat quickly, we were both in diamond within a month.
The vast majority of duo players are harming their chances by duoing.
Better the moron you know than the one you don't.
It really depends. I've seen at least one player hit gold by relying on his duo that would have never made it on his own. But the flip side is that partner can just as well hurt your chances if they continue to under-perform consistently.
The nice thing about a solid duo is that you increase your chances of winning. A bad duo can make things worse.
If you want to truly get better - climb out of bronze solo. If getting out of bronze is hard for you now, trying to make progress in silver is going to be far more painful.
In bronze, I could have my whole team struggle and still pull out wins. In silver and above, people start to actually have some coordination, albeit by the time you're b1 that's basically low silver unless your mmr is low for b1.
If you want to climb, I would just climb solo. If you want to climb with a friend, do it with friend.
If you are willing to abandon your friend to get higher on ladder, then do it (If you were truly loyal to your friend you would never ask this question, nothing wrong with that though).
It will also take you a long time to climb up though, so be patient and keep playing correctly, don't waver.
Neither cause regardless of solo or duo you'll still have to deal with the shit ass trolls you been dealing with like everyone else. Especially with the reset have fun!
