I found out why all my normal games lately seem so hard.
I played a few games with some friends ranging from gold to diamond and its seemed like it fucked me over in the long run. There are a good bit of scattered plats and and occasional diamond players in my games now. Only good thing I gotta say is I do feel like its slightly beneficial cause I feel like ive been playing pretty consistenly and I feel like I'm having to improve playing against such higher skilled players. Or it could be I just found a champ I'm actually pretty good at lol. http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=ShaClueless