Matchmaking

I've won 3 out of my last 20 games. The people that get put on my team make winning impossible. I don't understand how I have such bad luck with matchmaking, but I'm going to stop playing this game for a good long while because it's just a source of frustration and rage.

Last season I went to gold with brand mid at around an 80% winrate. This season I've played over 400 games and got close to my gold promos multiple times, but now I'm down to silver 4 because I cannot carry these people. It seems like every team I get either feeds like their life depends on it or they wait until 40 minutes and just straight suicide into the enemy team when I'm not with them to try and mop up their mess. Under 50% win rate now... and I cannot get out of silver... it's literally impossible for me to stop these people from losing games.... and it feels horrible. I put so much effort into these games and get rewarded with jackasses on my team almost every single game.

I have no problems looking at my play and saying this was good or that was bad and trying to learn from the situation, but my teammates have to hold their own and not do objectively stupid things. I've only played this game for a few years but this season feels especially terrible. I'm not sure what happened with the matchmaking but almost every single game I get terrible players on my team and it is insanely frustrating. That's not even mentioning the trolls and smurfs that run rampant in silver.

I don't know what to do anymore. I just know more often than not I get the jackasses and the enemy team steamrolls people or my teammates just suicide every time an objective is up for grabs. I can't even put into words how frustrating this game has become... I'm just done with league for the time being.

There's no point in me playing ranked when it is basically the lottery. It's not possible to enjoy games when you constantly watch your teammates do things that are objectively stupid. Hopefully toward the end of the season I can play ranked again and not deal with all the smurfs, trolls, and the jackasses. The few wins I do have recently felt just the opposite, like I got lucky with my teammates not being total jackasses and it wasn't possible to lose the game... that is not fun either. I want competitive games in ranked.... not this garbage.

If I see another unranked new player trying out jungle while the enemy team gets a gold 5 and a gold 2 I'm going to snap. Riot needs to fix their matchmaking, and balance out the game.... not every game should be a feeding frenzy. Playing this game literally gives me stomach pains. I do not enjoy playing league anymore. After the countless hours spent learning and watching LCS and absorbing tips and all the money spent on skins it would be a shame to walk away from this game but I cannot stand the teammates i'm forced to play with most of my games. /mute all isn't enough to stop them from throwing the game.