What is most likely the problem here? This can't be a coincidence anymore...

Play unrated. Use comms, have a laugh, find someone you get along with (that doesn’t bottom frag) ask them to duo que ranked with you.

Are most of your first and second place games wins? Winning will get you the most rank-ups. Your rarely rank up in a loss unless you top frag for your team and your team loses by 2. Ultimately to rank up fast your team will need to win by a lot. I'm always looking to get my team to a 13-5 win or better. That will result in a 3 bar boost. Also, you will personally rank up faster if you out-perform the other players. Top frag ranks faster, although it doesn't necessarily help your team to a 13-5 so you have to balance between the two. Tabstats.com does a good job of giving your ELO (or MMR "match making rating") I'm still low myself (Iron 2) because I'm trying to learn Viper this ACT and my KDA is low, but I had one really good match this Act where I was top frag/ owned and my ELO went up 400 points. Since then I have been getting better matched team mates, unless the server has low participation or it's after-school kiddy play time. I think as your ELO goes up you will match with better players as long as they are on the server when you play.
The longer it takes to queue the more likely the spread of player ELOs. Solo queuing is rough. If you want to rank up fast I think it is better to have a core team that you play with that all want to win and win big. A few 13-5 or better matches and you will rank up fast. I peaked at Bronze 3 last ACT but definitely could see the difference in ranking up if I played with friends I had made.

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I don't think the issue is your agent pick, it seems like it may be a communication thing? I know at the lower ranks it is very difficult to find a full team that communicates, but if you are top fragging every game and then dying. It doesn't mean much if your team wasnt aware they had to follow up with you.

Lets say you are pushing Hookah on bind, you get a pick then get another kill on site before being taken out. If you didnt let your team know you were pushing hookah and you look back at 4 people on A then the lose of the round may end up being on you. I would say just constantly keep your team informed about what you are doing or ask how you can help them out. Having 5 people on the same page is way stronger than having 5 people doing whatever they want. Purely getting kills won't get you out of iron.

You have three options 1.Play it like 1vs 5 i.e you vs entire enemy team.play duelist for this.(i did this and I'm gold 2 from iron 2) 2.play game with 5 people stack 3.start with fresh account if you are confident enough and you will be placed in upper rank after 20+5 games