Best way to climb ranked?

The best way to climb ranked is:
- Play with one or two friends. I try to not full stack because when you full stack, there is less focus on improving play than there would be to keep your friends happy (like not being objective about things they need to work on)

- Play who you are comfortable with, unless you don't have a smoker. Always stick to playing the characters you know because it would be more useful to have you use their abilities than the abilities of a character you have no idea what you're doing with. That is, unless you need smokes. Smokes are priority.

- Don't let other players attitudes get to you. I turn off enemy text chat always and mute teammate voice chat if they're being toxic.