For all you smug mid-high elo players out there.

This game is probably based more on luck than you think. I'm G4 atm, and just played with a terrible Zed player yesterday who went 4-13-1, as disgusted as I was, I decided to look him up and he was G5, with over 500 ranked games played so he wasn't just placed there. I looked at his KDA's and they were abysmal. Each of his top 4 most played champions had KDAs between 1.4 and 1.6. Just Horrible, yet somehow he still climbed his way to gold. Even sadder, he had a KDA of 5-7-5 on Jinx, while mine is like 7-5-8 yet he actually had a higher win % with over 50 games played on her. I know KDA isn't everything, but how do you have a 53% winrate on a champion with a 1.5 kda?That means you're getting carried nearly every single game (And rarely are you ever the SOLE REASON FOR THE WIN). I'd understand if he was one of those players who dies a lot but gets kills so he still carries with a lot of deaths but just has a bad KDA, but he plays like trash most games and has been constantly carried till he got gold.

I didn't want to believe it, but it's true, luck plays a bigger factor in this game than we thought. Challenger, Master, and Diamond players most likely belong where they are, but by this logic a lucky low-gold level player can squeeze into plat or a lucky low silver, (or maybe even high bronze) level player can squeeze into gold because he gets good teammates 60% of the time, while someone who's actually good is trapped in silver with bad teammates because he gets good teams only 40% of the time. So if you're a gold or plat player who may struggle more often than not in games, but still try to tell yourself that you belong there and are better than those below you, think again, you're probably just a lucky bastard lol, stealing the good teammates away from someone who actually deserves your rank.