Season 5 is full on luck
So in season 3 I started out as bronze 3, I started playing rankeds very soon when I was too new to this game to really understand it. After a while of getting better mostly through season 3 but also begin-mid season 4 I carried myself easily from bronze 3 to gold 1 when I noticed and improved on my mistakes. However I found this fking impossible to do in season 5.
This game has changed from being good to win to praying to god to not get the bad ones in your team. 4 guys can work hard to win but 1 guy decides to feed and the game is over. Everytime you que up in a game it's a fucking dice roll as to who gets the most bad ones in their team.
People keep throwing advices around like "how do pro's get top elo easily?" and "you have to get better, ward more, carry your team, win your lane" without noticing that this is all season 3 advice and none of it is even fucking true anymore. The only reason it's easy to get top elo on a new account is because of a low MMR which makes it incredibly easy to win craptons of games and then skipping divisions and getting 35 lp per match.
Just my last game for example. I went 6/1 as tristana by 20 minutes. Our thresh was 0/5/2 and he did absolutely nothing else than telling me I was a horrible player. Our malz kinda won top line but our jungler was a 2/7, mid lane 2/5 and thresh 0/5. How do I carry a game like this when their nasus and vayne and gragas is completely fed?
Game before that. I go 7/2 in laning phase. My support picked sona vs jinx leona and went 0/6 in laning phase. Jungler amumu 2/6, literally did nothing else than farming the jungle even after level 6. His "ganks" were running in and then out of the lane instantly, after missing all his q's.
Game before that one, I have to go top lane so I go with kennen. I own my toplaner, go 4/0. I press tab: our botlane is 0/6 support and 1/4 adc. Mid laner 2/2 barely hanging in and our jungler as usual just farming the jungle. How am I supposed to carry this? Even as a fucking kennen I can only do so much in teamfights when I get practically one shot by a fed fiddlesticks.
ALL of my games have been like the examples mentioned here. In season 3 I would've proceeded to roflstomp the whole game after owning my lane like that but in season 5 this is impossible. How am I supposed to carry games? I frankly don't know. Right now it's just rolling a dice although the odds have been heavily against my favor lately.
Want to play a game of normals? Alright, get matched with a 4-man premade almost every single match, feeling like I'm playing some single player game, usually heavily unbalanced elo's, mostly always one sided. That isn't fucking fun.
This game has gone downhill very quickly since Ghostcrawler arrival.