Story time!

Be me. Be exclusively SoloQ only player. See proof -----> here <----. Be Silver 2 in promos for Silver 1. Have a 70% overall winrate in ranked (aka pretty good MMR). Lose first game of series, win the second one. Alright, do or die time. Game 3. Get through champ select check Lolskill like I do every game. Scan completes and see this:

http://i.imgur.com/PH8OvFv.png

Thats right! Our team has 2 silvers. Their team has 2 plats. What the actual fuck? Why am I playing against TWO plats in my SILVER promos?

Did I mention we have an Urgot support?

Game was an absolute stomp....... in our favor lol.

http://i.imgur.com/EyC6AzY.png

Color coded chat for you guys.

Got our Jhin super fed. Rest of the game was picks and peeling Skarner away from him. Which Urgot support worked surprisingly well for lol. Do peoples' ranks really mean anything at all? Wtf is this clown fiesta?

On one hand, I'm super pissed I have to be matched against multiple Plat players in my Silver 2 game. This isn't the first time either. Check game 2 of my promos. Plat 4 ADC on the enemy team. I also pretty much only get matched against mid-high Gold and Plat now.

On the other hand, we won. Didn't just win, crushed them. Feels good.

The question i have is this. Do ranks really mean anything anymore? Silver vs Plat in "ranked" games? Why the hell do I, as a SoloQ only player, have to get matched vs Plat in my SILVER games? Why is the ladder actively punishing me for doing well? I could understand if my MMR was high that I get matched against mid-low Gold. But against multiple people who are MORE THAN a full tier ahead of me? How is that fair?

Also, how the hell can you say your ranked system means anything when Silvers are dominating Plats? I was so proud that I was going to make it to Gold this season after multiple years of being stuck in Silver. I was so proud that I took a proactive approach of getting better at the game. I was so proud that I was going to do it all by myself. But now, it feels hollow. It feels like it means nothing. Ranks mean nothing. I'll reach Gold just to be viewed as another shitter boosted animal. I'll be at the same exact spot as people who DQ boosted to get there.

I dont know. Maybe Riot has a plan to make DQ more fair. But I sure hope they do it soon because as of now, it doesn't feel right. It doesnt seems fair. It feels empty and meaningless. Overall it feels pretty much exactly the same as playing normals. Just a complete random potluck of players thrown together for a shit show of a match.

Am I the only one who feels this way?