Quickplay is Terrible to Practice Tanking

I started playing toward the end of last season. I just hit Diamond, pretty much exclusively playing support.

I’ve been in quite a few ranked games with triple support but only one tank, so I figured it would be useful to add a tank to my toolbox to swap when that comp isn’t working. The problem is quick play is essentially atrocious for improving my skills as a tank. More games than not that I’ve played lately, there is pretty much no support. I’ve queued several games with 5 DPS, and me as a solo tank. Or support players that are essentially just playing DPS. I’ll race toward spawn with 1 HP, and they’ll just walk past me without healing me at all to head back to point lol. I’m not complaining about the less advanced gameplay, but what I’m experiencing is just not preparing me for tanking in ranked games at all. At least with DPS and support, there’s still plenty of room to improve your skills with bad teammates, but I feel that’s much less true for tank.

I just wish there was a way to play unranked games with and against other players around the same skill level. Seems like a lot of my quickplay teammates are brand new or just intentionally throwing. I’m also seeing an ungodly amount of disconnects in my quickplay games. I was not seeing this when I first started about a month ago.

I wanted to avoid playing as a terrible tank in diamond games, but it’s looking like that’s really the only way to improve. Sorry to my future teammates lol.