Can we have the option to skip division 5s?
Ask anyone who's climbed ranked, they'll tell you that the worst places to be are Bronze 5, Silver 5, Gold 5, Plat 5, because players who don't understand MMR can just troll for days and not feel punished for it. I frequently end up spending more time in division 5 of every rank than the rest of it, because you have to grind our the 5/4 troll odds much moreso than everywhere else.
My proposed solution is that we go from X 1 to Y 4 without MMR changing; if you excel you'll climb normally, if not you'll quickly drop into Y 5. Maybe only do this if the player has been doing well, not finally climbing out of X after 400 games.
Just for some context, my last 2 games in a division 5 went as follows: the first I was support and the adc was afk. That's fine, it happens. Then the second game, the enemy adc was afk but the adc I was supporting was so glue-eatingly stupid that we surrendered after 20 minutes of listening to him rage like a child. Amusement aside, I had more fun in the first one, which really just adds insult to injury.
Thoughts, comments, horror stories from division 5 games, go!
Edit: The point is that it reduces the amount of people going "well I can't get demoted so I won't bother keeping my emotions in check" because less people go past that imaginary point of X5 OLP. Sure, people who get demoted will still get there, but the majority of them were probably bad in the first place to lose that many games.