Elo hell may not be real, but Bronze is sure as hell frustrating

I've been gold the last two seasons, often playing with plats.

I placed Bronze 1 somehow this season. I've now lost two promotional series to silver 5 (2-3 then 1-3 with the free win making it 2-3).

These are my scores in the 6 losses (and please don't get in to "there's more than just KDA!" - of course there is. I'm doing the other stuff better than these guys too, it's just that KDA is the quickest way to demonstrate my point): 11/8/17 - total kills 37 to 49 14/7/10 - total kills 40 to 51 13/6/4 - total kills 29 to 29 9/4/9 - total kills 35 to 34 8/7/10 - total kills 38 to 57 4/4/4 - total kills 14 to 33

Like literally, in 5 of my 6 losses I played extremely well (and I did fine in the last but the team just got stomped). Enemy jungler had significantly more presence in my lane than I had help, and yet I consistently won lane, took early turrets, made good rotations, etc... I haven't dropped from my abilities of previous seasons - I'm still a gold/plat caliber player. I know it's just bad luck and that the numbers will even out eventually (in 9 games it's possible to get 6-8 really bad teams...) but it's really frustrating. A lot of the players down here just can't be carried...

That's not even counting the games I've successfully carried a team. At least they were carry-able though. Then there's the games where I can just sit around and do nothing and get carried.

As I said, I have no doubt I'll climb out of bronze. Although I expected to win the series the first time. I expected to win it the second time. I've never lost a series twice before (I've actually only lost 1 series in each season prior to this...). It's quite tilting though - losing games where you've played extremely well (or at least good enough to be the best player in that game) and you lose it because at this elo being the best on the map doesn't matter at all - what matters is who has the worst player on the team. Who's going to feed the hardest. Who's going to make bad objective calls in the late game. Who's going to overstay after a won fight. Who's going to run and die instead of kite a won fight. Who's going to try to save me when I'm able to save myself and die for nothing. etc...

And to anyone that has been complaining about elo hell or is stuck in bronze, etc... First, it sucks to be there - so sorry. Second, please understand it's not a long-term thing. You will get out. It's a numbers game. Bad luck can only last in the short term - if you're truly better you will win it out eventually.