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?
Remember, points are not a measure of skill. Points are a measure of how much ballchasing a player does. Don’t focus on points.
Don’t focus on your teammate’s mistakes. You cannot change or improve your teammate. Focus on your own mistakes, on what you could have done better in any given play. That’s how you’ll improve, and improving is literally the only way to rank up.
Even on plays where it looks like it’s 100% your teammate’s fault, question that. Could you have done anything to make the play develop more favorably? Could it be that you rotated erratically, throwing your teammate out of position? I can almost guarantee there are situations where you’re not realizing that you’re cutting your teammate off.
As I’m sure you know, it’s usually much easier to identify mistakes that your teammate makes rather than your own. So watch some of your replays, but from your teammate’s perspective; then you’ll be the “teammate” and it will be easier to see what you need to improve on.