The enemy team always asks if I'm a smurf

And then I tell them, "No; I'm just stuck in ELO Hell."

There have been a lot of posts talking about how "Games are decided by who feeds instead of who carries," and I've noticed this so strongly.

I started Ranked last year and worked my ass off to climb. I was in Gold 2 last year, planning to head my way up to Platinum and beyond. I had dreams and aspirations; I had goals! I made Platinum friends! Then the new season came by, and I had to do my placements again.

I won 8 of the 10, and it sent me to Silver 3. AGAIN. So I have to crawl out of it AGAIN!!!

But every game I play has one or two teammates whom either just troll, int, or are just absolute garbage at the game! And for some reason, they're never on the other team!

I try every lane, because I know how to play every lane! If I go Top, my Mid will feed! If I play Mid next game, my Jungler will feed! If I go Jungle, my Support will feed! If I go Support, my ADC will feed! If I go ADC, they'll all feed!!!! My Platinum friends miss duoing with me! I got sent to Honour 0 after getting Honour 4 last year, because after so many hours of people throwing games and ruining my life, it gets under my skin and makes me want to scream! That's what I'm doing now!

I see so many first-timers playing in my matches, as I'm the only person with a border on my screen. Everyone else who SHOULD be placed in Bronze gets to start their journey in Silver before falling off to Bronze. I can't carry them! When they give the opponents --- the ones I am FORCED to deal with --- a giant gold advantage, I'm literally screwed! No one can deal with a 1v5 when the whole other team is fed beyond contesting.

ELO Hell may not be real. I call it the "ELO Casino." You put in 19 LP and 30 minutes of your precious, limited life into this game, and you just hope the feeding troll is on the other team instead of yours for a change. So far, I'm the unluckiest man in the universe. I'm tempted to just get boosted or something. I wouldn't ruin games for anyone in Platinum. I'm not the ADC who walks into the enemy team and stands still afterwards. I'm not the Jungler who smites Baron at full health, leaving it to be easily stolen. I'm not the top laner who picked Irelia without knowing what the hell her kit does. I'm not the support that took Teleport and Cleanse and bought a Doran's Shield first! I'm not the mid laner who picked Janna! I don't want to see people who do that ever again! But I know that as long as I try climbing out of Silver, I'm simply forced to.