Ping issues when grouping

This is somewhat a specific problem but I’ve only been encountering it for 4/5 days and it’s been making my experience with overwatch worse overall. I’ve always duo’ed with an American player while I’m EU. It always preferred my server over his so we’d end up on EU servers and we could both play fine. Now it’s the opposite and I’m getting put on US servers and while he can play fine on both, I get really bad input lag and 150 ping. Is there a way to reverse this to what it used to be? Is there anything I can do at all? I should also specify I’m on PS5