How Overwatch ranked should be: You and a group of evenly matched players square off in a good balanced match that should determine who slightly outranks who.
How Overwatch ranked is: If you ever want to cross a threshold(from Platinum to Diamond or Diamond to the next) you have to be good enough to carry an entire team of people who would normally be ranked way lower than they are(they act and perform like silvers/gold) but somehow made it to almost Diamond rank. Or else, you will be stuck hovering between 2700-2999 or 3700-3999 forever.
As someone who plays primarily healers, I've been hovering between these numbers for the entire season. I'm good enough to keep a team alive as long as possible and do my job well. I know when to use speed boosts, ana nades, sleep, etc. I try as hard as I can not to blame others as this leads to toxicity, but when I see myself get silver or gold in damage or kills(which is mainly self defense as ana or boops as lucio) I start to question what everyone is shooting at. I'm not good enough to carry a team. As a healer I don't think I ever will be. If carrying is what it takes to get to the next rank(even if I think I do a good job as a healer) then I guess I will accept my fate.
Thing is effort
I'm just like you, I try to put in effort
Try for the win all the time
I just want competitive matches
If I lose, it should be I got outplayed or the other team beat our team with great skill or matchup benefited them
When you see people come into comp thinking its Quick Play+ with a #SR next to you and just don't try, you do get toxicity coming out of people
You joined a mode where its most essential to work together or play to the best of your skill on Heroes that might make a difference
I switch off more often now, fuck PotG, I want the win
I'll switch up if need be
I go Pharah as main, if I can destroy back lines or get them to look up and chase me, I've done my job
My team can push and kill them easily due to them being out of position
Yet if team knows how to counter me quick, I'll swap to pool of Players left my team didn't choose to get the other side to adjust, maybe them swapping to counter might not he beneficial to them
Seriously there have been instance players are dead set on their "main"
Then get rolled on by the enemy team cause if you can't counter them or make an effort to gain an advantage, your not being helpful
Shit sometime I'll let myself die in certain situations which pay ten fold for my team to take advantage
Example:
Volskaya Industries, you know Defend lockdown main area
They have advantage of funneling you
That little window is covered most times
You have a flanking spot through the left base side, but you need a mobile/boost/airborne character
I as Pharah first 1-2 times will force them to come chase me, cause I'll flank, stand on A, watch as the whole squad drops Defense and come to me
Smart teams would send a DPS + Heal or Tank + DPS to quickly get rid of me
I try to keep away, make them chase
Get my team an advantage
Do it a few times, teams will start noticing my technique
Some cover which benefits us, if not, I keep doing
Sooner or later a Jailbreak will happen and my team comes flushing in
Then now you have to play it out
Then there are those times, you do this, yet a team member or 2 position themselves far away from the team, wasting my effort, cause we needed to close in and takeover
That's when you really get demoralized and frustration sets in, you did everything to get your team an advantage only to see it wasted, cause others in your team lacked the awareness of what is taking place, there so in tuned with what they need to do as solo and not as a group