>>718005738
>I was consistently top fragging every game too which is the only way to climb in a game like this
Your stats don't matter at all when it comes to rank, even if you are consistently the best player in the entire server but your team keeps losing, you end up with a low rank, you should know this if you spent any time at all playing the game, your individual skills don't mean anything if your team is shit.
>the average player is a lot better than they were back then even in low elo
This was more or less my point, everyone you play against tends to have years of experience with the game at this point so the threshold of what could be considered good has also raised.
>>718006227
Casual is not really all that casual, if you're going to end up in low rank you're better off playing competitive or premier since casual doesn't have any sort of ranking system so you can end up against people that absolutely nolife the game, lower ranked people don't even usually tend to bother with casual anyways.