It doesn't get better if your mmr is considerably higher than avarage for your league when you are getting close to your proper rank (mid plat in my case), all matchmaking does instead then is match you with far lower mmr players against considerably higher mmr players and use you as the balancing lever. At the time when my gold 3 eune acc was at a 75%ish winrate, I started having games where it wasn't unusuall for the the opposing team to be a full league or higher than my team on avarage while also having premades. To say the least my winrate started to eventually drop (which was probably contributed by me getting tilted as fuck).
After that period I thought, what the f*ck is the point of getting 27+lp per match if I'm moving into territory where matchups are so incredibly scewered I have 0 chance of carrying them regardless (in that case I'd rather have an estimated 50% chance and the 20lp it comes with) and why am I being so heavily punished before I even reach my designated rank? After that I only focused on getting my other two smurfs into gold which was relatively painless then gave up on ranked completely.
Mind you this was earlier in the season when DQ was volatile as fuck, statistics were later released claiming Riot had improved premade vs pug matchup among other matchups, but honestly I got so turned of by that experience that I don't give a damn anymore and this is after having enjoying ranked for 3 seasons. In the future I'll get my acc's to gold so I can get my championship rewards but beyond that I don't see the point.
Losing is agonizing as fuck when you feel the match is utterly scewered against you and all lanes are losing beacuse you are the jungler and you can't cover 3 lanes at once and gank them all before lvl 3, or constantly daddy all your teammates (rarely an appriciated jesture which can sometimes be contraproductive no matter how nice you try to packadge the words "play safe"), diverting loads of attention from doing your job of actually jungleing and keeping up map awareness. When your matches get like this, the ammount of work you have to put in to win makes it hardly fun in comparision to how stressfull and agonizing losing in the same scenario can be.
Constantly being the balancing lever means you'll just about never get carried so it's carry hard as fuck or lose, too bad Riot made carrying solo harder than ever this season as damage is rampant thus even a small communication advantage can easely lead to a shutdown on the only player doing decent on a team, or worse, premades abusing lolnexus, find out you are the only semi-competent player on your team then proceed to camp your lane or invade your jungle over and over effectively shutting you out of the game since they are organized but your team isn't and don't realise having their jungler locked out of the game might have a more adverse impact on their chances to win than sacrificing those 3-4 lane minions to actually help him regain control of the jungle on their own side.
But whatever, at least other people can have "fun" with their friends in "ranked" (intended tryhard mode?!) now, hah, bah.
For you guys who have the patience to put up with this shit and that especially goes for solo players, kudos to you, me? I've had my fill.
