Player queues for a role (Role Rank + Player Rank)
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Determine Effective Match Rank for queue

• If Role Rank > Player Rank → use Role Rank
  
• If Role Rank < Player Rank → use Player Rank floor

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Party Check

• Duos/Trios anchor lower-ranked players to highest rank in party

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Team Balance Adjustment

• Mirror outliers across teams
  
• Spread allowed based on queue health (wider at low ranks, tighter at high ranks)

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Opponent Assignment

• Other team gets mirrored high/low ranks
  
• Teams are roughly balanced

Role Rank vs Player Rank

• If you’re playing a role above your account rank, Role Rank dominates (e.g., C4 Tank vs E3 Player Rank → opponents clustered around C4).
  
  
• If your Role Rank is below account rank, Player Rank acts as a floor (e.g., E4 Technical vs D3 Player Rank → opponents pulled up toward D).

Party Impact

• Lower-ranked party members get pulled upward to match the highest in the party.
  
  
• Duo/trio mechanics can create mirrored outliers on the opposing team.

Team Balancing

• Outliers on one team are mirrored to the other team.
  
  
• Spread varies by rank: wider at low tiers, narrower at high tiers.

1) When you queue off-role, check if your account rank exceeds your role rank → expect opponents pulled upward.

2) When you queue on a high-role-rank, expect opponents close to Role Rank.

3) Matches with outliers or duo/trio partners are “flexed” matches and may not perfectly reflect the Role vs Player Rank logic.

This guide uses a lot of speculation due to the limited data points. I simply need more data. Current data is reinforced by solo, duo and trio queues. There are unexplained outliers I can't account for currently. Right now, the evidence strongly suggests this is how it works. However, contributions of more data can help nail down the exact specifics. Leave a comment below if you can contribute! Thanks.

It is currently unknown if duo will always get matched with duo, trio with trio and four stack with four stack.