Toxicity is created by the gap in skill in silver mostly due to smurfs (and less culpable new accts)
Most of the toxicity in this game is due to your shit system of ranked and is exacerbated by the current game state.
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There's way more polite smurfs around. Ranked is a crappy system that punishes players for not knowing information they don't have. It slams you into low winrate to break climbing and lower ranked people, so makes the climbing to actual skill level impossible without being a carry champion player, because the people in your games cannot follow up on a tank/support/etc. It's not just some illusion that people claim it to be and honestly it's really annoying that climbing efficiency is based on using third party sites that can be unreliable or even provides a fair amount of indirectly toxicity for players to abuse/grief a player over their recent 25% WR on a champion that has 51%+ overall.
I have had nothing but people fucking me over stats when they became more used in season 4 during my climb with gatekeeping assholes, calling me boosted when they're literally trying to lose themselves as hard as possible while playing someone else's account to give them gold.
I really hate the call of duty KDAisms that have plagued the last 4 seasons, the reason why I climbed in season 3 is that I didn't go for kills I went for wins and I seem to suffer a player pool that cares more about statistic masturbation than winning. It's fairly depressing in between rito basically nerf-deleting whatever fun shit I play. No one in low elo can pick up on people who are carrying anymore and no one listens to someone that's making the game win. It's really unplayable.
Not going to bother checking, because it is ALWAYS the same. You have maybe 1 smurf every 15 to 20 games.... not enough to be a reason for why you can't climb.