I think you guys really fucked ranked distribution even harder than before
Was a reddit post awhile back showing difference in low elo rank distribution between last 2 seasons. Can look it up if you want but basically bronze is smaller, gold & silver larger than they used to be. I know for a fact NA bronze used to be around 25% of player population last few seasons. Of course... I didn't save images because didn't think it mattered but if you look it up on op.gg now its like 14-15%. Basically, no new accounts get placed in bronze anymore. Why... who the fuck knows. New accounts already ruin a bunch of silver games but now it's even worse. Thought I would escape it once I got back to gold but honestly..... nope. Not only has game play in this game felt like shit all season but so has match making. Now... jokes on me because match making always been shit. But never this bad.
I assume you made this change to see shit for season 9 when you add another division. I mean honeslty... I hope so because playing ranked this season is torture. Now I am too afraid to even fucking play ranked anymore on this account because I just assume every game going to be shit and eventually I will demote back to silver. Which.... wouldn't worry me in past seasons (minus the fact that means you have fucked mmr and it takes forever to climb). But this season is does scare me. Not that I can't compete in gold.... I been mid gold elo for 3 years now... just that I won't win enough games to show it.
Just sick of match making and changes to gameplay ruining the competitive feel of the game I used to feel. I get gold is shit... I am well aware of how bad I am.... but fuck man. When you have played the game as long as me and around the same elo forever you know how games are supposed to feel. And honestly.... nothing feels the same anymore. I can't even expect teammates to know the basics to the game in gold that's how fucked shit is. This feels so much worse than dynamic queue season where people accused people of being boosted (which may have applied to high elo but LOL in low elo). But I legit just feel everyone boosted now.
So wtf am I bitching about? Basically..... mid gold last 2 seasons literally means nothing I know just that... I am used to playing in the 15-25% player rank distribution. Games were competitive for me and fun. Right now chilling in gold 5... which is 30 w/e %. mmr shit... so basically silver 1 now I guess idk. The thing is... like.... I actually feel like I can't rank up right now and it has nothing to do with my confidence in my own play. I mean... I legit had like plat mmr preseason 7 which ok means nothing lol but fuck like... I was playing 
verse plat players almost every game in flex & normal queue during pre season. Then after spending forever even climbing silver I get back to gold 5 and like... idk feel like I can't even compete. Not that laning hard just that I can't 1v9 carry as . Preseason I didn't have to 1v9 I literally had teammates to play around 7-8/10 games. Now... its like 4 out of 10. I mean shit i've had less than 50% win rate all season and I have never had less than 50% win rate since like season 2....... I legit had 57% win rate with 200 games played in season 6 on an alt account in gold 2. Last sason I had 3 accounts in gold all with 52% or higher. My alt account right now has 52% win rate in gold (which not many games played so doesn't mean anything). But when I play on this account so much of the season I have been just fucked by teammates. I have never seen anything like it. http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=smalltomahawker
My malz WR on this account 41%... and 76% on alt lol...... granted more games played but... ugg. Its been less than 50% all season. Just sucks man I actually want to rank this account up a bit right now but every game feels so damn boring. Once it's time to team fight seems like enemy team just drafts a better team and wins in the death ball. In the past I would just use macro to out farm and win but now you lose a team fight late game (like 30 mins lul) doesn't matter if you live and all your teammates dead enemy team just ends the game. So you basically have to fight shit fights or auto lose anyways. I thought this season was getting better but feels the same way when I play on this account. I literally had 3 good games and lost all of them. Won 2 games where I played like shit. Then lost a couple where I played like shit. Its one thing losing when you play like shit but when you lose every game you play good in it really just makes you not want to play anymore.
So now I feel like if I want to play ranked at all I have to play on an alt.... but I don't care about ranking an alt account up. So I guess I just can't play ranked..... Cool shit man... cool shit.
