I posted this in the Define a Scrub Thread
"No. Randoms suck, and it IS a reason a lot of people aren't in S rank. I main the jr and it was hell just to get to A and then I'd always fall back down to B+
Eventually I realized it wasn't because I was bad but because I'm playing with bunch of fools. Support roles are NOT viable in randoms, Simply because you cannot communicate, the majority of players is out to do their own thing. So I started playing the ksr, .52 and tentatek and within two days I was in S rank. And oh boy is S rank freaking stupid. Out of all the ranks I've ever been in Nobody has ever ignored my Beakons as much as them. I would have all three of my beakons placed in different strategic places, and my teammates ( not just one game, about 85% of all my games ) would totally ignore the beakons instead opting to super jump to an enemy in combant, getting splatted and repeating their process. even when their super jump victim wasn't in combat, their teammate would run off looking for somebody to splat instead of guarding their landing indicator LIKE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO. WHY IN THE WORLD ARE S-RANKED PLAYERS SO BAD AT BEING A GOOD TEAM???
My clan will get together every so often and do squad battles and when we do we kick butt, Not because we're necessarily the greatest but because we can diversify our team, and we have good communication and teamwork skills, so many times have we gone up against squad ACTUALLY 100% consisting of .52 gal decos,one full of .96's a few with 2 or 3 ksr, filling the rest in with tentateks. YES these weapons are good, But that doesn't mean you're going to win. That doesn't mean you can play like a braindead toddler. Those teams get demolished.
So yes the randoms system IS holding back a lot of players, of course I'm sure some of the ones who complain about having a bad team are actually the bad team contributing to the problems. But if you're stuck in a bad rank your options are to either condone your main and play with the top tier weapons, or find a clan you can do squad battles with, However clans look at your rank so this might even be difficult to do.
TL;DR randoms succ, get a clan, stop only playing high tiers. GUARD YOUR FREAKING TEAMMATES LANDING INDICATORS. Like seriously you're so much better off having more ALIVE members on the field. It's worth it.
Rant over"