Silver is an absolute ELO mess.
When I was stuck in bronze I would say "Man I can't wait to get to silver, at least then all of my random teammates won't be perpetual liabilities I have to carry... games will be so easy"
Now that I am stuck in silver it is far worse. I thought Bronze to Silver would weed out certain "unacceptable badness" that no player should ever have assigned on his team, yet in Silver it is somehow much worse than Bronze.
To be honest, I enjoy silver to some extent... because despite being trapped in Silver I simply won't lose my lane to anyone that isn't at least gold/platinum most of the time. It's comical to start games 3-0 and then see the forfeit at 15 request come in from other lanes. I mean a few games ago my random ADC went 0-14. Literally 0-14.
Maybe I belong platinum, maybe I belong in gold. Maybe I am actually Silver. The problem is it is impossible to tell because Riot's flawed system thinks the guy starting every game 5-0 in lane phase is the same skill level as an 0-14 Jinx. It is ELO hell