Ranked has become a massive clusterfuck since season 3. Is this going to be fixed?
Skill discrepancy and inability to impact games as an individual are really bad right now.
Up to season 3, everyone at Diamond was fairly good at the game. You could rely on your team mates playing their roles well. If someone fell behind, you could help them catch up and get them back in the game.
Right now, this isn't the case. Barring counter-picks and camping, if someone falls behind, it's because they're severely out-skilled 9/10 games. You can camp their lane and catch them up, but they're playing like shit, so it's not going to matter; they aren't going to be relevant even with a gold and EXP advantage.
Every ranked game is a complete shit show where you have to cross your fingers and hope your team mates are at least as good as their lane opponents. If you want to climb, you have to spam games with the knowledge that there's a higher chance of the enemy team having more bad players. You constantly get games that are over at 10 minutes, because 2/3 or 3/3 lanes are being stomped. This isn't healthy or fun.
Nobody even wants to jungle at Diamond anymore, because 50% of the time, you're bashing your head against a wall as every single lane is losing and you're just stuck sitting there like 'lol I can't be in all your lanes at the same time' and it's reached a point where they're so behind that you can't even successfully gank.
Computer gaming since 1979 (Atari 400 Computer w/Star Raiders)
Yes I call myself "Ancient" for that reason :)