Yeah... about that "teammates will be good once i climb high enough". I got put bronze 3 to start the season cuz 6 of my placement matches were decided in laning and I wasn't the deciding lane. Hard to snowball 1v2 and out-carry a 13/0/4 bot lane or something like that.
Anyways, I climbed, hit s3 and hit a wall. 90% of games were auto-losses back in Feb/Mar, and I said stuff to my teammates. Rude stuff because being ignored when asking them to do crap like: ward, hug tower, stop forcing outnumbered fights vs fed enemies - it all got ignored at best and got me harassed by my teammates and reported as toxic. So after being rudely ignored and/or harassed for over 10 min by a bunch of feeders (and worse - people who didn't feed and knew I was right), I would lose it. Dropped from s3 to s5 and repeatedly told I was trash, git gud, stay hardstuck in bronze loser, and shit like that. Finally after a month or so of almost every game being auto-loss, I got a break. I immediately started climbing. Hit gold. Climb to gold 3 - which is about where I belong - and have bounced around gold 5 to gold 3 ever since.
Gold 5 comes because I've been getting a mini session of my Feb/Mar treatment all over again lately. If you are counter-picked, stuck 1v2 or 1v3 (when fed enemy support or mid roams top) in laning phase for 15+ min, you can't really do much to get fed. Maybe if jungle would actually GANK, it would be different. But as with all other ranks I've climbed through, the jungler never ganks top for me for some reason or will only do one attempt and the most horribly timed and thought out one at that. I can have a flashless 1/4 hp enemy toplaner with no escape tools trying to break a freeze outside my tower and jungle will run all the way to bot to gank for a feeding 2v2 lane rather than give a counter-gank top. People in gold are largely no better than people in bronze or silver. SOME have better mechanics, but not by a large amount. And their decision-making/macro/shotcalling is generally just as flawed and illogical. Worse still is that they make fun of you for trying to shotcall even when you make good calls. Like executing a 4-1 splitpush. How is this so hard to do for the 4 man group? If you're 4v5, kite back; if you're 4v4, keep up the pressure; if you are 4v3 - consider engaging. I can see when the enemy is going for drag as a 5 man group and they are ahead. Even if we don't have wards there. And we could stop trying to contest, sneak a baron during that time cuz we have the dps and ability to tank, and we know they are 5 man drag. But instead 2-3 people decide to fight at dragon, die 3v5, then blame team for not giving enemy a 5v5 that the would win? And next dragon... repeat - could get inner tower mid and top in trade for drag, but let's take another 5v5 when half our team is way behind and we'll get aced for maybe killing 2 enemies. Crap like that gets repeated over and over IN THE SAME GAME. Like, I had to WORK to get to gold. If I played that stupidly and REPEATED the SAME "mistakes" over and over again in THE SAME MATCH, I would still be bronze. But nope, somehow these people are gold. I'm not claiming I should be higher than g3 - I know my mechanics are g3 at best - but I am claiming many people in gold have equal or less intelligence than some of the better players stuck in silver or bronze. And worse is that they don't listen to someone who obviously understands macro and shotcalling better than them. They are too arrogant or too stupid to see that. They don't learn from their mistakes or adapt their play in any way. Might as well be a program/robot.
In my experience, and from what I've heard from people in plat and diamond, climbing only gets you better opponents - not better teammates. Teammates still do the same stupid shit from bronze to challenger. Their mechanics might improve, but that's generally it. (Obviously some macro improvements past gold, but still some poor macro too). Carrying a game or winning gets a lot harder - even if YOU do the right thing. Except in those rare glorious instances where your teammates aren't boosted, have coordination, and you could intentionally feed all game and still win. Not that I like those matches either - I prefer an even matchup between teams - not that they exist anymore.
