When I freelanced, before I was carrying games, I was winning on Flames 25% of the time, and winning while on Adders or Mael 75% of the time, and getting on Flames 75% of the time. Meaning I was losing a lot, and on Flames a lot.

I was in adders and queued only adders instead of freelanced when I learned how to turn off freelance status. I then was winning 35-40% of the time. I made alliance call-out macros, learned the maps, started using MCH, and on adders my win rate went up to 45-50% so I demonstrated a solid jump in win rate by playing better - a single player can make a big difference. Had a bad week where maels were still winning most of the time and switched my GC to Maelstrom.

My win rate is now 60-70%. A couple nights ago over 14 games I had an 86% win rate.

So while a single player can have an effect and carry games and pull your own personal win rate up, I strongly believe the GC you're on has a huge impact on win rate. Maelstrom has been dominating the win rates for the past couple months.

I mean, I have continued to improve and swapped to BLM in my push for The Hand of Mercy, but I don't think I'm carrying every game hard enough to go back to freelancing on flames and retain a 70% win rate.