My thoughts on ranked in this season

This season... it just feels as though there's little you can do if someone snowballs in another lane. The game becomes an utter stomp because of the ridiculously long respawn timers. Your team wipes once due to a fed Ekko and suddenly you've lost 2 turrets and an inhib mid at 25 mins.

There is next to nothing you can do, especially in lower elo where splitpushing can't be abused because your teammates still don't know how to take advantage of pressure play and you just end up dying to a 3 man gank, they group mid, and proceed to wipe the other 4 members and/or take a tower in a siege because I can't be up to defend it for 100000 years.

It also doesn't help that Riot made it so that so long as you build a few of those ridiculous have-some-health-resistences-and-dps items (Sterak's, Maw), you can tower dive and laugh off turret dps. Why even bother having tower lasers up after 20 mins? It's not like they make that big of a difference now that Riot has practically transformed turrets into +125 global team gold caches.

This season sucks. Literally next to no skill outside of just completely crushing your lane and getting super fed so that you have a chance at carrying.

Meanwhile ranked premades are getting silver elo players into plat/dia in a matter of weeks.