My formal surrender. Climbing the ladder isn't gonna happen.
After many hundreds of games I can't escape low gold.
I play in circles around my opponents at this point. Win nearly every solo lane and most bot lanes. But my success in the lane phase when individual technical skill counts simply does not matter. I only control what one of the ten champions on the field are doing.
If my team does well, I win. If my team doesn't do well, I lose. My individual performance doesn't have enough impact on the outcome to be relevant and I am done pretending this game isn't mostly about luck in matchmaking.