team algorithm is designed to prevent you from climbing
This is what I found after thousands of games. Whatever elo I'm in, I usually stagnate because of the teams riot gives me. I've been iron, bronze, silver, up to gold 2. And I have roughly the same winrate in all of those elos. Not that I ever get outplayed - I find the ennemies easy and predictable, 99% of the time. But even an iron 6 yi can pentakill when he's fed 20/0 at min 5. The problem is how hard people feed or they're just incapable to do what's needed to win. Those are my latest games : https://i.ibb.co/ByrX28T/team-algo.jpg I haven't changed anything. Those are the actual teams riot gave me. I just removed 2 "filler" free wins designed to keep people playing. Aside from this, every single one of my bot lanes have been literally inting. Every.Single.One. There are more, I just got bored. **Keep in mind the reality of the games was even worse ** in general their kda was even worse early, and, later, they got a couple kills in the chaos of the melee, and generally played safer (lol, when 1/8) because they were affraid their kda looked bad, and people tanked for them in teamfights. I never had any problem with the ennemies and got very good stats (low death, high assists, high farm), until I'm repeatedly 1 shot by some diana they fed hard, or my team just stays 5km behind when I ult with amumu. Which is why I sometimes included earlier recap on the right side. And I'm not even mentioning trolls. These people are bad. And they deserve some kind of sanction. But if they got a fair game, would they get rekt so hard? I might feed too against a challenger (though I'd probably afk tower instead). I think they were just playing against much better players. 7 times. In a row. That means the algorithm matching up players has been consistently placing much, MUCH worse players bot lane in my team than in the other team. Not just once, twice, or 3 times. But almost every game so far.