It's really bad. You see the same champs over and over again, but not only that, the game has become predicated on who either dies or feeds first, or who has the worst player on their team at champ select.
Ramping up the damage for the more casual players has made it beyond frustrating and anti-fun. It's ludicrous.
l0l0lL90l0l027 votesIm high diamond and can confirm. The game is 100% based off of who has the biggest shitter in low elo. Doesn't actually matter how good you do. If your team picks champions they are useless on and the other team doesn't you for a fact will lose. Because in reality its not an actual 5v5 at that point. Then they just keep fighting while behind as if nothing has happened.
Sure I win a good deal of games but the ones I lose (which every season becomes more frequent thanks riot) are 100% nothing you can do. Its all that player(s) being way too worse/no impact.
Human Bullet3 votesdrop me a post on your main pls kthx
DEDManWonderLand12 votesLets not forget shyvanna, VI and the very rare tahm kench jungle who are constantly ganking while your jg is behind on farm and already gave up 2 kills.
I sometimes prepare myself for a loss by looking at my team vs theirs in champ select. We all know low elo players cant play xerath well and that no tanks vs 3 tanks and a vayne is a disaster in itself
WardBaronFFS8 votesI can tell if a game is win or lose usually by the first blood mark and who gets it.
Segius4 votesWe'll that's just a bad attitude to have.
WardBaronFFS4 votesYou right I got my bot lane first blood they snowballed I peeled for him but he face tanked and didnt kite at all so we lost.
Hèntaî 1 votesAre you sure it was just him that netted you the loss?
WardBaronFFS1 votesMost of the teams resources was into him and we kept constantly peeling him but he wouldnt move or try to 1 vs 3 the enemies constantly getting caught we had several tanks and an enchanter.
RainbowIcee9 votesi can tell by who has the 
on their team. I usually dodge if it's in mine.
Lord Galvatron4 votesThe very rare Tahm Kench Jungle who is constantly ganking....
Sorry guys, that ones my bad.
Karfuss10 votes[{quoted}](name=Drop Dead Darius,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=cKdYO89q,comment-id=0001,timestamp=2018-02-06T20:11:30.097+0000)
Lets not forget shyvanna, VI and the very rare tahm kench jungle who are constantly ganking while your jg is behind on farm and already gave up 2 kills.
Well, not necessarily those champions, but Jungle is probably the most relevant role in the meta right now. Whereas the snowball process begins with individual skill if laners were left to their own devices, Jungles rain on everyone's parade and kick start the snowball, then will proceed to camp the ever living hell out of top or bot lane.
Whichever team has the better jungler usually dictates games in all ELO, even the pro scene. A fed ADC will gun down everything in their path, a Juggernaut or Tank will become nigh unkillable and march top lane up to the Nexus, but it usually all starts with goon squading a lane.
A jungler taking every kill will never be as valuable as a jungler getting an ADC or Juggy 3/0 and showing up in that crucial, single team fight at 15-20 mins.
BootyHunterRengo1 votesso i'm a main jungler in Gold and i feel like i don't have that much impact in quite a lot of my games: the normal reasons for that are: everybody is pushing their lanes, with no vision control and lower hp than their enemy laner ->leading to easy kills for the enemy and maybe, but not necessarily his jungler or people just dying randomly 1v1, before the 3minute mark. And as always putting personal failure as blame on the jungler and then continueing to rant and play worse.
Andlike you mentioned, if you don't spoonfeed the kills to the other members of your team, you will be rather useless. But if these people don't know how to utilize the ressources put into them, you're gonna have a bad time as a jungler..
Karfuss1 votesso i'm a main jungler in Gold and i feel like i don't have that much impact in quite a lot of my games: the normal reasons for that are: everybody is pushing their lanes, with no vision control and lower hp than their enemy laner ->leading to easy kills for the enemy and maybe, but not necessarily his jungler or people just dying randomly 1v1, before the 3minute mark. And as always putting personal failure as blame on the jungler and then continueing to rant and play worse.
Andlike you mentioned, if you don't spoonfeed the kills to the other members of your team, you will be rather useless. But if these people don't know how to utilize the ressources put into them, you're gonna have a bad time as a jungler..
Wholly depends on who you're playing tbh. Some junglers can gank pushed lanes.
But look at it this way. If you get the ADC a BF sword above the other ADC, or even a zeal item, they're probably going to win their lane and every consequent fight. It takes a lot for a behind bot lane to win a fight once the enemy is snowballing, and usually involves some input from their jungler, but in the end, you are not responsible for what other people do. Essentially that's why you camp, you want to ensure you're there to counter gank and have the number advantage.
WardBaronFFS1 votesYes but your adc winning lane is useless when all the peel you have isnt enough to get them off him because he doesnt move....
Karfuss1 votesYes but your adc winning lane is useless when all the peel you have isnt enough to get them off him because he doesnt move....
Then like I said, you have no agency over what other people do.
If your ADC is lagging, there's nothing you can do about that beside getting your Juggy really really fed or taking the loss, moving on to the next game. Not every game is going to have a lagging ADC, and the enemy team has an equal chance of having one. As long as you're not the lagging ADC, odds are always in your favour.
This is the same with every multiplayer, team-based game there is and ever will be. You're playing an MMO and your tank healer is lagging? Raid wipe.
WardBaronFFS1 votesYeah but when its in your promos to silver and your first lose is because your adc doesnt know how to play the game you get kinda sad and messed up
Divewing11 votesI wonder at what point does "not being good" stop being a justifiable excuse for low elo feeling like shit...
xelaker16 votesI mean lots of problems in bronze and low silver are lessened considerably at higher elo soooooo........
Divewing9 votesNaturally, but it doesn't change it feeling shit.
I suppose that then also raises the question; "at which point does how a game feel become a balance issue", given that it's almost entirely emotional.
ahferroin77 votesJust like you can't reasonably balance around low ELO, you also can't balance around high ELO.
If you balance around low ELO, you end up with a situation where high level games are boring because everybody is able to survive easily.
If you balance around high ELO, you end up with a situation like we have now where low ELO games aren't fun because they're pretty universally won by a landslide.
AlienPrimate4 votesI have had way more close games playing with bronze friends than I have ever had playing in gold-diamond elo. Higher elo takes advantage or leads and close out games quickly never giving you a chance. Low elo people get cocky when they get ahead giving easy shutdowns resulting in a smaller income gap.
ISLAMICWARRIOR992 votesI wonder at what point does "not being good" stop being a justifiable excuse for low elo feeling like shit...
Never lol
SweedishGunner11 votesYeah one person sucks harder than the rest, ints and that throws away the game for the 4 other players on their team.
I can't tell you the amount of games where I'm sitting mid 0-0 with my enemy mid 0-0 just playing the lane out properly when Mr fed ass jungler or laner comes, kills me, takes mid tower and then roams bot/top to kill the laner, take that tower and basically lock in the result of the game.
You get pasted so fast by the slightest of fed people that there's no time to mount a comeback or play from behind.
SangreDeNoche5 votesYou get pasted so fast by the slightest of fed people that there's no time to mount a comeback or play from behind.
Dude I was 11/0/and something I don't remember as lux the other day at 8 minutes because I could handle their bard and rengar hard-ganking for their zed but got 4 manned while my team was farming side lanes (jungler at krugs)
Seriously sucks how reliant they make you on people without two brain cells to rub together. I'm sorry I'm not "skilled" enough to "dodge" a bard ult on tower while zed and rengar ult my face with ghostblade active and flash lol. We lost 2 and a half towers off that business before they got their rumps to mid. This is already too specific a rant so I'll stop there.
IvernBramblefoot10 votesi wish i could upvote you because this is exactly how i feel and why i stopped playing. i haven't played for 3-4 days now.
Naomi CoffeeGoat7 votesHow is that first part a low elo issue? One thing I've heard about high elo is everyone knows how to abuse the FOTM champs and spams them for freelo.
OP Champion Main4 votesI have two account one is platinum after placements one is silver... the platinum is steadily climbing the other one is hardstuck Silver I right now because the games are so volatile I tilt off the face of the map.
Ariel the Cruel3 votes"Low elo?" Maybe I'm just not attentive enough, but this looks to apply to high elo as well.
. . . Though they tend to stall more when I watch them. (>_>)
Jasiwel4 votesIn my Flex placements, I reached Gold with 7-3 going solo as Urgot only. Most of my games were over 45 minutes (had some over 55) and were won by stalling to the point that one lost team fight or pick equates a win. I won several games that way, most lasting over 40 minutes and some lasting over 55.
The problem with low ELO right now is that it's just a cesspool filled with players who are either curious about Ranked, players that literally grind as many games as possible without trying to improve, and players that have an idea on how to play the game for the sake of seriously trying to climb to Gold. If you're in the last group of players, but get mostly teammates from the first two groups, then you're going to be shit out of luck. It gets even better when your Ranked MMR keeps climbing to the point that your opponents are all high Gold and low Platinum, but you're trying to climb out of Silver 1.
Edit: Clarity
Clowns Suck3 votesYup though I'm not sure the balance team can save low elo from themselves. Unless they can somehow balance out stupid people and trolls. Just had a vlad that had to "try something out" in a ranked game. Goes spellbook with smite and builds a cinderhulk in lane. Pretty sure he thinks it helps him sustain. Any time someone politely tells him it doesn't work on lane minions he says "Stop harassing meeeee". Ends up 100CS and 3 kills down then DCs in front of their team twice and feeds some more kills. (already fed irelia 3 in lane) Funnily enough this guy will likely never get banned for trolling but by god if anyone says anything mean to him they will get hit fast.
H00KIE2 votes[{quoted}](name=Clowns Suck,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=cKdYO89q,comment-id=0015,timestamp=2018-02-07T08:21:06.670+0000)
Yup though I'm not sure the balance team can save low elo from themselves. Unless they can somehow balance out stupid people and trolls. Just had a vlad that had to "try something out" in a ranked game. Goes spellbook with smite and builds a cinderhulk in lane. Ends up 100CS and 3 kills down then DCs in front of their team twice and feeds some more kills. (already fed irelia 3 in lane) Funnily enough this guy will likely never get banned for trolling but by god if anyone says anything mean to him they will get hit fast.
Yeah I had a game like this where I called heca JG but then after that teemo is picked and he begs for jg and forces me top (when our roles should be the other way around)... and he's bad. He doesn't know how to jungle and dies to monsters, has a failed gank on gnar even though I dropped gnar super low, and he was like level 5 while the rest of us are level 8 lol. But oh, he's new so it's okay for him to ruin my match.
lolibus2 votesWell I had a game where our adc was dead and enemy team took nashor and pushed mid. They all wiped 4vs5 in their favor and lost the baron, didn't even get one tower and not one kill.
"Ramping up the damage for the more casual players has made it beyond frustrating and anti-fun." definitely didn't have much of an effect on people constantly throwing their spaghetti around in lower elo.
Omg Hay Gurl2 votesOh my god yes! I'm a shitty player, but I try my best to play safe and smart, and it just feels so pointless even when I'm ahead. This is the first time I've actually tried to play. I've usually just play here and there in the past, but I've kind of lost interest already because the games are such a mind fuck. I know it's because I'm shit too. :\
Recon12122 votesIts interesting someone said this and didn't have people spamming in the comments, "it's never your team, only you can determine the outcome of your game." I get that sometimes the biggest factor is you, but too often is there one single person who out feeds your ability to carry and the game is over. simple as that.
Xerath Aim Bot2 votes1v9. Nuff said.
wishbone252 votesor champ testing in ranked !!! while you have practice tool to do so !!
isolate plz2 votesmight just be me but i win alot more on the weekends then in the week
Ahri Baka2 votes Top
Mid
Jg
Supp
Surr at 15 or I go troll Starter pack
rtbf2216514121 votesThere is so many bad players on today its not even funny. This entire week was trash. My winrate went from 83 to less than 40 in a couple of days
Carried as a support. Fiddlesticks with relic shield. OF ALL THINGS. Positive KDA. And we still lost with all my team having negative KDA. And they couldn't focus objectives at all. Forcing me to defend all lanes. Only the Heimer was decent. They all fed their lanes though. No saying I took gold from people, because they were dead by that point or ran away. Then we have people who can't go in on three types of cc used at once, two hitting ALL the enemy team. lul
TasteTheToad1 votesfiddlesticks supports..doesn't really offer much for the support role
rtbf2216514121 votesfiddlesticks supports..doesn't really offer much for the support role
Did you just say Hard CC fear, AoE Silence, and AoE slow with 
is nothing to offer?
Also that you are correct when my winrate is 68% in general with him?
I can't tell if serious or trolling.
TasteTheToad1 votesYea, I've never lost to a fiddlesticks as a support main. His ult is a waste in bot since u can seem him majority of the time looses element of surprise. And theirs like 20 supports who do a better job then him overall.
rtbf2216514121 votesYea, I've never lost to a fiddlesticks as a support main. His ult is a waste in bot since u can seem him majority of the time looses element of surprise. And theirs like 20 supports who do a better job then him overall.
Face me then. I'll put you in your place.
Also, did you know he can hop over walls with ult? Do it in a bush? Have you even played this game?
TasteTheToad1 votesYour Bronze 1 bragging about how op fiddlesticks is. Why aren't you challenger, 1 trick fiddlesticks then? U seem to be triggered by me simply stating that there is alot of better choices in the support role. Calm down. Sure u can even play Leona and Shen duo bot in low elo and smash. Doesn't meen its actually good.
rtbf2216514121 votesYour Bronze 1 bragging about how op fiddlesticks is. Why aren't you challenger, 1 trick fiddlesticks then? U seem to be triggered by me simply stating that there is alot of better choices in the support role. Calm down. Sure u can even play Leona and Shen duo bot in low elo and smash. Doesn't meen its actually good.
Waiting for you to say something meaningful that doesn't fly in the face of his 50% winrate (52% mid with lower playerbase) and op.gg classifying him as a support as of now. Guess where op.gg gets its data from?
Oh wait. You think it is random.
You really must not play this game.
TasteTheToad1 votesB1.
Anon E Moose1 votesAll of my games are so one sided right now.
Athenes Lulu1 votesOr when going off-meta even in low elo is considered trolling. That's something to look at.
Pika Fox1 votesThis is how its always been in low ELO. People rage because they have no idea what to do (or rage because theyre in low ELO specifically because they rage, as it loses games), and thus they give up easily.
Hilariously, low ELO is where you have the biggest chance to come back from a major deficit, because low ELO players have no idea how to end properly.
