Okay, help me out. I’ve been as high ranked as Champ 2 in duos but recently I can barely make it out of Platinum 3. Whenever I have a teammate who scores as many points as me or higher we win every time, usually it’s not even close. But so often I have teammates who can barely get 100 points. Missing hits, can’t rotate, can’t defend. I will get a good teammate one out of every five matches or so, and then the rest can barely hit the ball. Is this par for the course or am I doing something wrong?
Every rank plays a bit different. A champ will have a hard time in the lower ranks because you cannot anticipate anything. If you expect something to happen, you can react much quicker.
So if you know your mate (and enemies) are gonna be below the level you’d gotten used to, you’ll need to adapt your own style to it a bit. Be more patient, if your mate is a chaser, stay behind and make sure you at least don’t get scored against.
It’s basically just a case of letting the kids play and be the bigger man until you get back to a level where at least rotation is good and folks hit the ball.
Then again, I’ve been diamond 3 for a very long time, some matches you just gel with mates, some matches you don’t. It comes down to team mate compatibility.