CC Ranked Feels Like An Unfun Joke

[Garuketo]

Genuine question, no bait, but (how) can a single person carry a team against five (potentially) skilled players?

Some games are just truly lost no matter what you do, but the ranked system basically forces you to go up the ladder until you hit Crystal because you get bonus stars while being on a win streak. This means unless you are going WLWLWLWL, etc. you should be climbing through your bracket if you are playing better than the average player in that bracket, unless you are expecting to climb with a sub 50% win rate. When people get stuck, its not matchmaking, they are exactly where they are supposed to be until they improve at the game.

Also, would you say you can carry on every job? Because personally I have the impression that some jobs lend themselves better for carrying than others. So even if you are good (or even crystal-worthy) on a job that has little carry potential you might be stuck if your team isn't strong?

And if your answer to that would be "just switch to a carry job" then I don't think this is a satisfying solution because first, you could be terrible at "carry" jobs (e.g., I am terrible at AST, but some non-carry jobs feel very natural to me).
And second then your original statement would only be semi-true because it would indeed mean that there are some jobs that can't carry and are much more team-dependant (hence if your team sucks, you'll go down too) if the solution is to not play them.

Some jobs are obviously better to carry on than others–AST, PLD, RDM, SAM, etc.–, but you can still carry on any job, its just harder. BLM is probably imo, one of the worst jobs right now, but people have still climbed to Crystal this season playing exclusively it.

And I'd also like to add that switching to a job for practical reasons would make ranking up purely about...ranking up. And while that is perfectly fine and may be the goal for some people, other people might see little value in it if they have to play many, many matches on a job they don't enjoy. The result/high rank would not justify/balance out the lack of fun the ranking process itself might be under those circumstances.

At the end of the day, ranked is a competitive mode. If you aren't playing the competitive mode to win and still expecting to rank up like the people who are, why are you playing it over casuals? It seems disingenuous to the other people on your team who are.