Baiting players into grinding ranked games endlessly is how Riot keeps a lot of players hooked.

So don't feel bad about your rank. Matchmaking and the ranked system is designed to never let you reach a point where you feel "good" at League. Baiting players into grinding ranked games endlessly is how Riot keeps a lot of players hooked. But don't fall into that pitfall – because even thought you come across excellent players in-game, on YouTube and on this subreddit all the time, they are statistically speaking very few in numbers.