LP Gained And Lost Makes It Impossible To Climb

According to op.gg I currently have a 54% winrate, going by that alone I should be climbing and ranking up, even if slowly.

Almost every game I win I gain 17 LP, and almost every game I lose I lose 21 LP. I know because I see those numbers over and over again after every game.

Knowing this I decided to do some math. Lets say I have a 55% winrate over 100 games. 55 wins times 17 LP = + 935 45 loss times 21 LP = - 945

Even with a 55% winrate I would still lose more LP than I gained.

Lets say I have a 60% winrate over 100 games. 60 wins times 17 LP = + 1020 40 loss times 21 LP = - 840

Right now if I managed to get a 60% winrate I would only gain 180 LP over the course of 100 games.

Lets see what would happen if the amount of LP gained and lost per game was both 20 with my current winrate. 54 wins times 20 LP = + 1080 46 loss times 20 LP = - 920

If the amount of LP gained and lost was the same I would gain 160 LP over the course of 100 games. That's almost as much as if I had a 60% winrate right now.

After the ranked reset of 10 placement matches I won 7 out 10 and went from S3 to B4, I not much better than bronze, but I am better because during my climb back up to silver I had a 65% winrate, and even then with such a high winrate it still took me a little less than 100 games to get back to Silver.

Its literally impossible for me to climb at a decent rate unless I somehow get 60+% winrate. I understand that you should have a good winrate if you want to get anywhere, but I'm a low level player playing with other low level players that are at a similar skill level, just having a winrate above 50% should make me climb, the closer to 50% my winrate is the slower I would climb but I should still climb. The only players that have winrates above 60% are smurfs, no one that actually plays with people of a similar skill level has a winrate that high.

As much a unbalanced champions, weak towers, long death timers, and too few bans bother me, those are all problems I can work around in game, those are all challenges that I can overcome with mechanical skill, good decisions, game knowledge, and a positive attitude. What am I supposed to do about LP gained and lost? All that is a statistic, and with some basic math I proved that even if I win, I STILL LOSE.

I've done a lot of complaining about this game, but I realize now that LP gained and lost is by far the biggest problem, because out of all this games problems this is the one that immediately made me quit ranked as soon as I noticed it. this is the only one that mathematically proves I have zero chance of climbing.

How is LP gained and lost even decided? I've heard its determined by your teams mmr compared to the enemy teams mmr, but I find it impossible to believe that every team I lose the mmr score thing determines the appropriate LP loss to be 21, there's no way that every team I lose to is worth an exact loss of 21 LP. Same with winning, there's no way every team I beat is worth a gain of exactly 17.

The game is alright on its own, but the goal of getting LP and ranking up and the competition is what makes this game worth being more than just something to casually play.

I had always noticed that I lost more LP for losing games than I gained for winning games, but it wasn't until I did the math that I realized how serious of a problem it is.

The only solution for me is to only play , and never play any other champion, I have a 64% winrate with him over a decent number of games, but playing the same champion every single game would get boring no matter how fun they are to play.

This game is literally unwinnable, at least for me. I quit ranked and will now only be casually playing normals until something is done about this problem.

TL;DR LP gained and lost isn't the same and is a huge problem.