[{quoted}](name=Rainbow Slayer,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=03MlT9Eo,comment-id=000000000000000000000000000100000001,timestamp=2019-03-23T18:57:06.593+0000)
Do you want some real numbers? A single person on a team is only 10 percent of the total influence of a League of Legends match. That's right, only 10 percent. On your team, you only control 20 percent of what goes on.
I thought you said real numbers? You're 1 out of 5 on your team, but you can easily influence more than just 20% of what happens on your team. Not every teammate is contributing an equal amount every game. Your 1/8 adc that's farming all game sure as shit isn't contributing as much as your 10/0 toplaner that just destroyed top lane inhib by themselves and soloed baron.
Even a good player cannot win matches where his or her entire team is feeding. It's simply a fact.
It depends on the degree to which your team is feeding, but you're right, you probably won't win a game where you whole team is hard losing. That doesn't happen every game though, and you absolutely can influence your games to win more than you lose.
You want some other good information? Accounts with a longstanding history get placed in much more difficult matches than newer accounts. Every year I have made it to gold easily with almost a 60 percent win rate on a new account. On this account, I cannot even climb out of Silver. Hell, right now I am having a rough time climbing out of Bronze. I can guarantee however that if I made another account and played ranked on it, that I would easily once again make it back to Gold. The matchmaking is rigged, and I have years of proof regarding it. About a year after I started playing, around Season 3, I started testing the system because I knew something seemed off, and it is. New accounts get way easier matches than accounts that have many games played on them.
You don't actually have proof of that, and there's no reason for riot to do that, nor would it even really be feasible for them to. It would make the code for matchmaking a lot more complicated than it needs to be for no reason other than to screw over their long term players. With how riot's changed ranked this season, maybe you just got lucky on your other accounts and won enough to get in gold, since your early unranked mmr and lp gains are are lot more substantial than on an account that already has a lot of games played on it.
A gold player last season isn't going to necessarily be gold this season.