Toxic LP System
I'm going to talk about my personal experience here, which I don't think is abnormal considering rank distributions from the link I've provided.
I've come to a point in my ranked career where it seriously feels like Riot is forcing me to stay where I am rank-wise. I am currently Gold V, and have been here for over 100 games now. I got up to gold III pretty quickly on in the season but after about only a few extremely unlucky games, I began to tilt. I went back to IV and then ended up back in V. Since then I've fluctuated in V and went between IV and V a few times but at this point, the game is telling me to stay where I am. I get about 13 points for a win and lose around 22 on a loss. What is the point of this? The point of ranked is to climb, and that becomes nearly impossible when I'm losing almost 10 more points on a loss than I gain on a win. Gold V isn't a highly regarded rank but it represents people in the top 30% of the ranked player base. After that, the higher ranked players are divided up in to 4 more separate ranks.
Why is it that 70% of the player base is down in the lowest 2 of 7 ranks? I think this is because the LP system is highly flawed. You aren't expected to win every game if you're better than the players you're with, but you will on average win more games than you lose and this will cause you to climb. That only works when the LP gain and loss are similar. If you get to the point I am at, you need to win substantially more than you are able to lose if you want to climb at all. This doesn't even bring in the tremendous tilt which a toxic system like this causes. When you work hard and win two games to get up to about 26 LP, and then you lose one and are now down to 4. You could win again and go up to 17 but then one loss takes down to 0. That is a win/loss ratio of 3/2 which should not result in 0 points. You would actually loose points this way even though you're pulling a positive win rate. This makes no sense and just causes games to be extremely unfun and irritating.
I'd be interested in hearing if other people have similar experiences or hearing if this post is even seen by Riot. Thanks for reading.
TLDR: LP gain and loss should not fluctuate, or at least it shoudln't fluctuate to the point where you can consistently win more games than you lose and still go down in LP.