For people saying "carry your way out of bronze"...

This is what happens in 90% of my bronze games.** I AM DARIUS. NOT EKKO! ** Nidalee was last pick, didn't talk until they were locking in (this happens regardless of the new champ pick, or the old) & proceeded to say "I don't like Darius as top, so I'm going to feed guys, sorry".

He went into the game, bought only the items you can see, fed 2 lanes silently, said "lol", quit. So it was 4v5 with a Quinn & Zed given first/second/third/fourth blood's which is all that's needed to A: tilt the lanes in their favour due to people feeling negative and B: allow the other team the confidence to know there's infighting and trolling on our team.

Game over.

You can say "OMG YOU CAN TOTALLY TURN IT AROUND, I KNOW I WOULD!!" or "not all of your games can be like this, this is a bad example, I have xxx in my games!" etc. I don't care. This is ALL I see. It's either an afk, feeding, toxicity, etc etc.

I can deal with bad players, I can deal with people that get countered due to bad picks, whatever. I can't deal with these scenarios. It's pathetic, and it's so common it pains me to even bother playing any more.

I couldn't care less what my rank is, I just like playing the game & actually earning/losing something at the end based upon my skill level. Normals don't offer that because people generally take it even less seriously than bronze level ranked, & I don't gain or lose anything based upon playing so I'm just kind of like "meh, who cares?".

Obviously the care factor in rank also becomes meaningless over time due to the fact that I have zero influence on what happens in the game. I can't alter the outcome of a game where someone decides they're going to deliberately lose it from the start.

I've played multiple MMO/team games that require people to work together, & I've never in my life seen a game so FILLED with people that just want to destroy the fun that others have so that they can laugh, or whatever.

There should be a WoW-esque scenario where you have to do proving grounds (google it if you've no idea what I'm talking about) to prove you have a basic understanding of game mechanics, and have to do a certain amount of cs/damage/healing whatever before you're capable of entering the ranked scene.

If it isn't taken seriously, then what's the point? Where's the learning?

I literally can't remember the last game I've played where someone doesn't go 0/20/0 or never connect, or connect & flame the team, or multiple other scenarios.

I know I'm terrible, I don't need people going through my game history pointing out that I'm terrible. All I want is for people to know that it's impossible to improve at this level of the game when you're instantly behind before the match even starts because one team is guaranteed a feeder/toxic/afk/man-child whatever to sway it in one direction.

So any win you have is meaningless, because it's one of the above, and any loss you have is out of your control due to the fact that you've generally got one of the above.

It makes me blind. I hate this game.