So is gold just the chill elo until you decide to be serious again?

I am definitely ok with that if its true. I am pretty burnt out at this point so I should probably be excited to be stuck in chill elo.

In a way I personally had a lot of growth this season in this game. Nothing crazy like bronze to plat or silver to diamond. Pretty much silver 2 to peaking at gold 2 but for someone like me that is a huge change in ranks. Think I am just burnt out at this point but games just seem so random and out of control to me these days.

I know I am at my actual rank because playing in my gold 2-3 games I feel like I have little control of the outcome. Once in awhile I get fed and can carry but generally it comes down to how good my teammates are. Which in the end is fine, I know to climb higher I need to get better.

Just seems weird. After climbing roughly a tier over the last year and up like 20-25% of the player population I guess I just feel like not much has changed. I still can easily get wrecked in silver games if I am not 100% focused on what is going on. I still make terrible mistakes all the time. I guess more than anything I Just recognize players mistakes more and have a better rough idea what I should be doing in mid/late game than I did in the past.

Honestly between plat 5 and silver 1-2 I feel ranks a huge clustered up mess. The system is not perfect but that's not what I am saying. It just feels like a cluster because mechanically wise it feels players are fairly similar just knowledge of mid/late game varies.

Been playing with my silver 4-5 friends lately on my low mmr gold 5 account and I honestly struggle with trying to carry. I hardly ever get fed in lane and hard carry games. But what I do notice is the crazy amount of mid and late game mistakes made, which I generally can take some advantage of and help my teams chances of winning in the mid and late game. So many times I will see people in silver start off a game fed and then just randomly keep getting picked off mid/late game. I just sit there even when its the enemy team and think "wtf are they doing?"

Not really sure what the point of this post is. Guess I just find it funny that in the past if I would have hit gold 2-3 I would have been super happy but now I just kind of laugh at shrug it off since I realize it doesn't mean much since there is still so much I don't know about the game.