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You can't improve MMR in ranked by playing normals. You have to play more ranked.
And that's really the only way - keep winning. You might have to main some other role for a while, until you get to the point where you're not helpless if your team is useless.
Play carries to carry and win and improve your MMR. The champs you mentioned are not carries. Try pyke/brand/velkoz if you fixated on support. But none in bronze 4 is worth supporting for tbh.
There are probably better supports you can play than the ones listed.
I DO NOT recommend playing an engage support like Shen in low ELO. You will make a crippling perfect engage on a hurt carry... and you team will just watch you die... Then probably flame you for feeding.
Learn to play Lux, Brand, Blitz is fine, pick up some Velkoz, possibly even Veigar maybe.
Bronze 4 is so low in MMR that youre almost in the range of trolls trying to create a hell pit for those unfortunate enough to be in matches with them. Of course they cant close out games, if they could, they would be in silver. YOU have to be the thing that gives your team an advantage.
Now Ive played support in a lot of MOBAs, and some teams are just bad. My analogy is "Even if I double the attack power of a potato, it still gets chewed on by insects." No amount of support will be enough for some teams. This is why picks like Lux, Brand, Velkoz are good because you can still offer some utility in the form of CC, but if you have to you can also try to build some items to carry with.
Also consider watching some streamers or pro matches. Not so try and play like them, they play in an environment with 0 ping, everyone in voice chat, there with a proper attitude, and with time and experience with their team mates. YOU WILL NEVER NEVER have all that in solo Q. It is still good for one thing. You can observe macro play. They all know based on what just happened what to do next. They try to get a lead, and then keep control. You have to learn this macro play and lead your team.
You see people get a triple kill and then walk back to their side of the map and farm jungle camps.... Higher level play theyre looking for the nearest objective, tower, drake, herald, inhibitor, baron or whatever they can take. If your team cant figure out what to do, then you have to lead them. When enemy bodies hit the floor, you need to be ready with a ping, you need to know what the nearest objective is and be ready to ping "On my way" to that objective the instant you have the advantage.
The other people dont know how to close matches, and to be honest, you probably dont either. Effective communication, or in the case of pros already knowing what the others will be thinking, is key to getting objectives and maintaining a lead.
You will have to do some effort in the damage department, and I dont mean that unpleasant poke Sona does in lane. You will have a bad time with Sona in low ELO. You can line up a great stun, and it wont matter. Low ELO is BAAAAD at followup. You need to be able to both start and finish a fight. Lux, Brand, Velkoz again. They can do this.
Now if your enemy is bad at closing out the game also, this is where Veigar comes in handy. He can offer peel and engage with his E, and if the match goes on long enough, he keeps building AP with every ability hit. Add in Dark Harvest, and eventually you can just press R and pop someone like a balloon. There are better AP sup choices than Veigar, but hes not the worst pick against certain sup/jg enemy choices.
Anyway. Start learning some of the AP carry/sup champs. Consider avoiding champs that need followup like Sona and Shen... Maybe even Blitz to some extent. Blitz can be a great pick against lower ELO players, but if your ADC is garbage, they will watch you pull, knock up, and ult an enemy and just keep farming like you didnt even just do that.
The matchmaker is hot garbage this season.
Anybody else in EUNE silver 2 getting this feeding teammates (only and exclusively toplane) who either go 0/13 or give some kills to their toplaner or jg and than just go AFK? It has happened to me like 5 - 6 times in a row and i haven't got any feedback from my reports whatsoever. So.... Is it just me?
The best that I can say for you to do is to scour stats for the most successful situations and scenarios you can put yourself in. For instance playin a champion with easy mechanics in low rating like Garen, malzahar, Ashe, sona, and Master Yi.
These Champs are good for climbing out of low rating for the simple fact that messing up with them is it harder to do then it is with Champions who have more complex mechanics. Sometimes a champion is rated high on the tier list because they are easier to play. The tier list doesn't dictate which Champions you play best with, just which ones seem to have the most impact at the current moment. Use sites like U.GG or op.gg to get a direct look at the tier ratings for roles that you play.
next, in low rating, there's always conflict about what the team should be doing at any given moment, and you may find it difficult to get your team actions to reflect the team actions of higher-rated teams consisting of high rated players. This is the greatest difficulty of climbing out of low ELO. Forcing yourself to do only what actions actually matter towards closing out the game.
this is where you need to remember your objective hierarchy.
Nexus, Inhibitor, tower, baron, elder drake. rift herald, elemental drake, minions and neutral camps, champions.
If you notice, and I'm sure you do, I place Champion kills as the least prioritize thing on the list. The reason for this is because you don't actually have to kill the enemy champion in order to successfully win the battle or the game. The idea is that everything before Champions is a resource and taking that resource gives you more power over champions, allowing you an easier time against them to where it becomes unwise for them to be near you (and is more frustrating than them being killed while feeling the accomplishment of participating.)
There's a bunch more things to go over about the low rated climbing and what makes it harder than playing High rated games, it would take too long to go into and where would require more like a tutorial Style video or something.
For the most part, these are some very simple to do things to remember when trying to win low rated games.
Other than that the next crucial thing I can think of to tell you is to mind your team comp. You are the one who has the power to change the flow of the game based on the champion that you pick.
picking a champion who, that by simply existing increases your odds of winning is always in everyone's best interest. That said it is a great idea to get a comprable amount of experience with various other Champions with differentfunctions.
Dont engage for more than 3 to 5 seconds if you dont have legitimate locations for all enemies, or if there is a global ultimate like Shens Sorakas or Karthus ultimates in the game. this is crucuial. overcommitting is overdosing.
You dont need a full build to win the game. You just need portion of the power of your full build to win. Stop delaying game ending objectives for items. dont recall if the map is hot and stuff looks close to happening or spawning (your team may try to wait for you, but the enemy team will not, and EVERYTHING YOU DO, EVEN RECALLING IS COMMUNICATED BETWEEN THE ENEMY TEAM so dont be careless or you will lose your team over an item.
Improving your mmr is really ez actually... you just win more than you lose and it will go up...
Your normal MMR is also very low. I would say just try to find out what your biggest mistakes are during games and try to work on that.
play support in anything below silver is a nightmare i suggest playing more carry champs such as 
but to point out really is that yes you may not be B4 level but you shouldn't focus and blame everything on your teammates even if they are the ones who are playing like apes just focus on you and only you and you will improve think about how you can do things better not how bad your team is.
Also dont flame people not saying you do but im my recent games that ive lost are simply because team got tilted not even because they are bad they just either A flame each other and dont play the game or give up and dont try