As a Plat smurfing in Silver..
It's really something else. I just went on a pretty substantial losing streak and dropped from Silver 1 to Silver 3 over the course of some days. I just don't know what I can say to get people to listen to me in game.
Recently, my team decided to take the Elder Dragon while the other team was taking Baron concurrently. We had no dragons beforehand so the boost was pretty null. We lost an inhibitor from that but no big deal. Now the problem comes when our tank jungle Shyvana decides to splitpush top while the enemy team dives the tower to force a fight, costing us the game.
Something like this happens way too often in this elo, so wtf can I say to be a better shotcaller?