I'm gunna hop on the "Riot makes it harder to climb intentionally as you win more games" bandwagon
I recently just had a really long win streak, 18 games won, and 2 losses, some of those games were close, others were stomps, and others were comebacks.
This all put me at around Plat 3 45 LP, at this point, I had 17 wins over my total losses. Which means I had a higher than average MMR.
Then I lose one game, I'm like okay, I'm bound to lose one, can't win every game.
Then I lost another
And another
And another
And another
And another
And what I'm noticing is that, the people that I'm starting to get in my team, haven't played Ranked in 7 days, have terrible KDAs/Win rates on all there champions.
Poor decision making skills
Lower elo than me, for example, on my climb, most of my games were perfectly matched, mostly Plat 3s-1s against Plat 3s-1s, but when I started to lose, immediately I get duos of Gold 1s and Plat 4s that have terrible win rates together, Gold 1s/2s that are duo together and are in my game because Riot rates duos as a higher MMR
And more AFKs, the rate I saw of AFKs during my climb were almost null, but all of a sudden, for some reason, I get all these people that are just leaving the game, either after the 3 minute period, at the 25 minute period, or just AFK because they're raging or something. It's like Riot intentionally places you with people that are more likely to AFK, so that you can lose the game.
Yes, I realize the phrase "If you're better than your elo, you can carry every game". YES, THAT IS TRUE, however, the game needs to statistically have a percentage of at least 45% or higher to win that game (close to even), or else it's like a 4v5/3v5 figuratively speaking.
I know climbing the ladder is suppose to be harder the more games you win, and harder in terms of more skilled people to be matched with.
But I am 100% not okay with Riot putting in algorithms in the matchmaking that try and make a person lose a game to bring them as close as possible to a 50% win ratio. It isn't fair, and it's not right.
And before the Silvers and Bronzes comment "But you fed in your recent games, you're mainly the issue in losing the game". Were you in the game? Did you know that other lane opponents won there lanes and then grouped and I couldn't do anything because it's such a disadvantage for me? Did you know that I got repeatedly 3 man tower dived in some games from behind my jungle because my jungle was counter jungle wolves on the other side of the map?
No, you don't know any of those things, KDA after the game doesn't tell you the whole story, so stop basing a persons reasoning for losing a game solely on that.