My Ranked Game experience in Season 5

In Season 4, My highest achievement was Silver 1 on promotional to Gold. I failed the promotional, went on a tilt, and ended in Silver 3 at the end of the season.

In Season 5, after seeing all my friends dropped down a tier or two, I thought I will be "soft reseted" into bronze tier. However, I was surprised that I was placed into Silver 5. And after winning 7 games in a row (including promotional games), I skipped a tier and ended up in Silver 3 again.

I enjoy playing a ranked game where everyone cooperate and win the game as a team, and not having a Katarina that goes 19/0/5 in a 24-6 game on my team. And that is how I won the 7 games in a row with kind, friendly teammates.

But everything seems to have changed when I reach Silver 3. Most people I played with were toxic, chatting "ff20" at 5 minutes in the game. In one game, I was on a team with 5 season 4 Silvers against 2 plats 2 golds and a silver.

To me, the league system seems to support a "carry" mentality where if a player is good, bad players must be placed on his/her team to "balance" out the good player. But this leads to people attempting to carry the team instead of working as a group to strive for victory together. I want to play with people who are actually Silver 3 and not a random Gold 2 on my team or the enemy team. Sure it feels good to get carried, but it does not feel right to go 1/11/2 and get carried by a 20/3/9.

(Don't know how to fix the system or if there is a problem, but tell me if you feel the same way)

Thanks for reading :)