So, an experience and a notion...

So I was playing ranked today. Not a good session, of course (otherwise I wouldn't need to type this up). First game of the day rolls in. Dude calls top and he picks . Everyone does fine in game outside of losing her shit to the enemy top laner, . gets a TON of free farm and rolls into some kills after killing her a few times. Then our team fighting gets torn apart because is exponentially stronger than everyone on our side. If you're gonna say "Why didn't you help top?", it's cause I mainly play adc/support, so top lane's way too far away for me to leisurely stroll to. I tried what I could in mid after busting down my own tower when I saw shit hitting the fan, but was already rolling by then and I had to maintain bot tower against . goes like...4/9/10 by the game's end.

OK, so losses happen. Next game's a win, but the game after:

me: adc pref dude: auto-locks

OK, so now I'm support . No biggy for the most part, and the game's going pretty well again, despite my Naut support not being the most polished whistle on the key chain. Then, at level 8, disappears and never comes back. We hold out 4v5 for 30 minutes until we're finally out-gunned completely and lose. She went like 1/5/1 before the dc, so Idk if that's why, but if it is, that's some bs seeing how we were still miles ahead regardless.

Alrighty, so disconnects happen. NEXT GAME:

me: adc pref another dude: "I'm gonna adc" me: Guess I'm supporting

Problem here is that this guy's out-right horrible with Draven. Literally runs in over and over into the enemy and and continually gets himself killed in lane, effectively feeding the holy hell out of them. We hold onto dreams of taking over late game until tells us he absolutely has to afk. So on top of the initial handicap of having a terrible and a not-much-better I didn't mention until now, the main saving grace of the team had to afk on us. Once again, another freaking loss.

Worst part of this?

: 0/10/10 dealing 10k to the enemy team : 5/4/15 dealing 20k to the enemy team

So what's the lesson here? The reason behind everyone's rampant toxicity in this game. To do everything you need to do in a game, but not get a deserved win because some shit or the other happens over and over again, all with the threat of getting individual demotions out of your rank when your individual performance has little to do with said demotion...it's just too rage inducing. D/Cs and horrible players are just the bane of ranked play in this game. It's not even like "Hey, we lost a decent game". It's not like "Hey, those guys were definitely better this time around". Most of the time it's that one dang guy that's gonna hand deliver the whole game on a platter to the enemy, then you op.gg the guy and you find out he's only won 1-2 games in the role he PURPOSEFULLY CALLED. This then happens OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Not to mention I got the "honor" of playing a game with a support who built MR first...against an ALL AD TEAM. Like, what the hell is this?

Stop making more advanced ranks and bottle-necking the diamonds. Instead, start making more LOWER ranks so we can filter out people that like playing freaking Mundo support. The way it is now, everyone that's "average" to "bad" are all over Bronze and Silver, and most people get auto-placed in Silver regardless of being good or bad if they have a decent run in provisionals. This means that instead of getting a bell curve where the "decent" or "average" players are somewhere in the middle of the ranks, "decent" is placed REALLY DAMN CLOSE to "freaking awful" and "downright horrid", whereas the best players have multiple divisions and ranks dividing them. Worst part is that they can't even decay out so we're literally stuck playing with these guys. Can we do something about lower ranks instead of torturing the best players over and over? I'm freaking tired of sullying my w/l ratios on my favorite champs in games I can't do much of anything about, and I'm sure I've heard enough qq from my diamond friend that gains like 10-12 lp a game and loses double that a loss.