The ranked matchmaking is quite a mess, and is absolutely creating trolls.

So after being in series for S1 5 times and with a 60% ranked winrate and having consistent bad matches with trolls, flamers, afks, ragers, and feeders I started keeping track. I thought even though it seems like I am just getting heaps of LoL garbage piled on me it just must be in my head, I just need to keep trying to get better and better. So I go play some norms, I play against mostly golds and occasionally some plats, and I have no trouble doing well and carrying often.

So I started counting the odds in my ranked matches, first I looked at my run at S1. In series 5 times, that means 10 games, cuz they were all loses. Of those 10 games in series, I had 10 games where my team had afks, feeders, or trolls, and also 10 games where the enemy team did not have any of these problems. After becoming immensely frustrated and tilting very hard all the way down to S5 I kept track of how often which team gets the short straw, and now, after approximately 50 matches I have had 5 games that my team did not troll, afk, or rage. Of those 50 games, there were only 3 matches that did not have a bad player (attitude, not skill based) on either team.

Now before everyone starts spouting the usually "git gud and carry" or "you just need to be better" let me explain that I am always trying to get better, always looking at my mistakes, always trying to diffuse arguments, always encouraging and trying to help team mates. Yet here I am, rarely ever being beaten by a team based on skill, but only losing because of incredibly toxic team mates. I held a 57% to 60% winrate for a long time, and even was maintaining 75% for a short time when I kept contesting S1.

The situation has gotten incredibly worse over the last 2 months or so, and I know there are a lot of people in my shoes out there, and I also know that this game state is turning a lot of otherwise great people into toxic players.

SOLUTION?>

I think that riot needs to do something like add another division or two to dilute the poison in the 95% player base living in silver/bronze, maybe make placements into ranked more effective, or make LP gains/losses more drastic based on player performance with a scheduled reset to LP scaling every month or so.