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Now, listen, this is going to be a hot take.

I don't mean that B.S.

when people say it's going to be a hot take.

They just spout something that everybody agrees with.

You don't deserve your rank.

You heard me.

Maybe that applies to me, too.

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We don't have an intro.

What up Birches! It's ya boy Hottakester.

I'm here to talk about stacking in ranked and how it's probably holding you

back.

My personal opinion

is that you don't deserve your rank if you are unable to solo queue to said rank.

I'm not saying you technically have to show a Q to that rank,

but if you get to a certain rank and you're like: "Wow, I know

that I would not be able to solo queue to my current position"...

you might not deserve it.

Let's say you're playing Apex and you form a three stack.

You all coordinate and communicate well and you end up climbing the ranks

pretty quickly.

I think it's easy to start thinking at that point.

"Wow, we must be really good at this game.

We're climbing the ranks faster than anybody else."

But here's the thing.

If you can't solo queue and reach that similar rank,

then the rank you got when you three stacked, isn't necessarily

a fair assessment of your individual skill level.

Yes, Having a team of three people can definitely give you an advantage.

Of course it can.

But does that mean you're a better player on your own?

Obviously, this isn't just limited to three stacking in apex.

The same goes for stacking in Valorant.

It's a little harder for me to say about overwatch.

I know five stacking isn't really a big thing.

I was going to reach out to an Overwatch coach,

but I got shy and I chickened out.

Now I know what you might be thinking, "but what about those pros who play in teams?"

while pro players are definitely super skilled at the game...

You got to recognize that they're able to play the game for like 10 hours a day

every single day, which is something you probably do not have.

Play with a team, lets you make mistakes that if you were solo queueing with randoms,

those mistakes would cost you the game.

A lot of them are micro mistakes.

That butterfly...

into something crazy When you're playing with the team,

you have a luxury of being able to rely on your teammates

to cover for you when you screw up.

In solo queue,

the chance that there's someone to catch you if you slip... are very low.

Now, if you solo queue a bunch to iron out those mistakes,

can you imagine how much of a better player

you would be when you stacked again? so that you could focus on teamwork?

Like I said earlier,

a lot of people are going to get stuck in ranks like Diamond or Masters in Apex

or even hit a certain rank and then don't try to climb any higher

because they know they can't.

Yet these players will still label themselves as "masters" players

or "immortal" players when they can't gain at all.

I think that minimum requirement

is that you need to be able to solo queue the previous rank.

So if you want to label yourself a masters player,

you need to be able to solo queue through Diamond.

Or if you want to label yourself an immortal player,

then you need to be able to solo queue through...what is it? ascendent.

And obviously the same thing applies for lower ranks.

If you want to say you're a plat player,

you should have the capability to solo queue through gold.

I'm not even saying you have to,

but you at least need to know you're able to do so.

If you're unable to solo queue through that previous rank,

I don't think you're going to be able to gain

in the rank that you're in, unless you're carried or something.

I think this changes, though, when it comes to like predator rank. Solo

queueing against pre-made pred or pro three stacks is just not possible.

And everybody in Apex is always like: "Oh, I'm getting queued up against three stacked

predators when I'm in plat. No you're not.

I solo queued in diamond every single day in November

and I probably only came up against a pred 3 stack

or was in a master's lobby,

maybe like five times out of the entire month of November.

If you had a server that's like as barren as the Sahara Desert.

Fair. Understandable. Have a nice day. Okay? You Win.

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It is definitely very possible for a three stack of individually skilled

diamond players to reach masters,

but does that mean they're each masters players?

And do you think that three

individually skilled diamond players can gain in masters?

and the same logic for valorant, of course. Five Stack Warriors, whatever.

And then it all just comes back to even if you hit Masters but aren't

individually a master skilled player, do you really deserve that rank?

If you hit immortal, you aren't individually an immortal skilled player.

Do you really deserve that rank?

Do you deserve to label yourself as such?

Now, I'm not saying never play with a team

and I'm not saying only three stacking stops improvement,

but I am saying that stacking is more likely to make you

complacent in your skills while picking up your teammates and each other slack.

Right?

If you are stuck while three stacking, it's time I think, to take a look

back on the individual that maybe you as an individual

need to grow before your team can keep going.

If you're just playing for fun

and don't really care about improvement, perfectly valid,

there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

But if you do care, then maybe you should think about what I've said.

And maybe solo queue

every once

in a while to gauge what your skill level actually is as an individual player.

And that's it for the video. Thank you so much for watching. I appreciate it.

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