Players in Ranked

There's an extremely large amount of players that play only ranked, but lack all the proper skills to actually succeed at the game. Whether it be basic game sense or even just the skill to side step a linear skill shot. The decision making to not use their mobility directly into their team, buy control wards, use their warding totem, or just actually listen to their team mates pings. There's so many players that don't actually even know what certain champions do even after they've been released for years already.

Now, of course I don't expect anybody in my games to be playing at challenger level, master, or even diamond. It's just the builds people employ are so cookie cutter, where they don't adjust to the game around them. So many people just constantly let their side lanes push in while playing what I call "mid lane monster mash" where the game turns into a perpetual Aram. It's ridiculous how many games are basically decided in the laning phase, not because that champions "OP" but you were just that much significantly worse than your opponent to die 5-7 times in lane.

There's honestly not enough game knowledge available from Riot's website or client in my opinion, and the tutorials are still utter garbage. Tutorials don't have to be JUST the introduction into the game, you can make a game experience that explains more advanced aspects to the game. There's definitely resources all around youtube/reddit/google, however the average player in ranked doesn't seem to be utilizing this. It seems like a vast majority of players treat ranked as the casual mode, when they should still be brushing up in normal.

I could honestly just be a complete whacko salt king. And this isn't all players either. But it's just so painfully evident when there's a player on your team that doesn't even belong in your cruddy Silver 3 division. Where their CS is awful, their map play is awful, their vision is awful, their gameplay is questionable. Now of course I make mistakes too, I get caught out or outplayed. But to the point where deaths amass in a way where the game is already over or you do the least amount of damage as one of the main carry roles? Something is wrong.

So, I really just wanna hear what other people have to say. This isn't even an "Elo Hell" rant. I don't think it exists. I think there's a lot of players I've found in Silver/Gold that are way better than their rank, but the ratio of them against goobers is frightening. So, either set me straight with some facts and open my eyes, or confirm with me I'm not crazy.

tl;dr - The level of skill for what's supposed to be the bottom of the barrel, feels like it's below even the bottom of that said barrel. It's the ground gangplank sets his barrels on, and then proceeds to walk on as he misclicks the barrel. If the game is going to keep getting more snowball and skill oriented, then not knowing basic game play/sense information will be that much more impactful. There's not enough knowledge available through riot themselves for players to improve since most will not go out of their way to look for it.