Losing Streak Island/Toxic Player Island
Why does Riot still vehemently deny the existence of this? I've been playing this game for 4 years and your matchmaking works the following way:
- If you are on a winning streak, you will be matched with others on winning streak (positive environment)
- If you are on a losing streak, you are matched with people also on a losing streak (negative environment)
This, combined with the relative age and emotional capacity of solo queue, turns good players into toxic players; getting slammed into a queue with a bunch of ragers who are on big losing streaks, which then in turn makes everyone else in the game in a bad/toxic mood. League is more noticeably toxic than ever even despite Lyte's tribunal efforts (which is full of a bunch of false reports and skewed information). People don't magically "get worse" on 10-11 game losing streaks, your matchmaking greatly compounds the issue and makes all those games fun for no one and complete hell to play (so no wonder why people are toxic).
This is why there's elo hell at every elo.