End this Please
I'm currently climbing in Silver right now and it feels like I need to try wayyyyyyyyy too hard to pull off some victories or even stay relevant when my teammates aren't doing so well. It's honestly so stressful, anti-fun, and borderline toxic.
Even in ranked, matchmaking seems to be skewed. In Silver 4, I was getting Bronze 2 ADCs and Silver 5 supports placed against Silver 3 ADCs and S3 support. Bronze ADC has 95 farm in 30 minutes, enemy Jhin has 200+. Now, his mmr may have been high, but it was evident that he couldn't really hang. I hate that the current matchmaking algorithm pairs you with 4 bads when you've been winning a lot and expects you to hardcarry ("If YOU cant carry you dont deserve to climb" mentality). It's so taxing mentally and super unhealthy for the game.
Additionally, I hate hate HATE the fact that new players just starting placements start at high silver MMR. IMO this is a major contributor of negative experiences in high silver because the first time will pick Kog'maw into Kai'sa/Leona and go 0/10. You will try to minimize damage as a team but at that point the game will be too far gone because of snowball effect.
I do think some sort of "champion mastery" check needs to be put into effect as well for ranked games. Something along the lines of: "if you aren't at least mastery 3 or 4 on a champ, you can't play them in ranked." This would encourage people to practice offroles in normal games as well, so they won't first time them in ranked and be a nuisance to the team (I'm talking to you Battle Sorakas that dont level heal until level 8).