I'm done with Solo Queue for the season. It's too toxic.

It's actually kind of sad for me, I enjoyed climbing from Bronze 4 all the way up to Silver 1 promos. I had a steady rate of success, good winrates with certain champions, very little toxicity. I enjoyed teammates who knew how to play the game, who knew how to focus on taking objectives, who knew how to hold their lane, who knew how to NOT FEED RELENTLESSLY. Ahhh, that was good.

Then it's like someone flipped on a lightswitch last week...

Suddenly I start getting frequently matched with players who have no damn clue what they're doing. Mind you, this is pretty close to Gold, so I expect some level of competence from these people.

Example: Not even a few days ago I had a player who went top against . Not a terrible thing.

However, he proceeded to feed. And _ feed_. And feed. Until he finally blurted out in /all "WTF GAREN ULT HIT ME?? I USED MY Q ON HIM!!"

After telling him what Teemo's blind ACTUALLY does, his response was: "STFU nub I carry u"

In short, he believed that Teemo's Blind blocks all abilities from hitting. And this guy is in the same ranked MMR as me, someone who was a hair's bredth from Gold. People like him have managed to completely trash my high winrates and my LP, causing me to fall from Silver 1 promos to Silver 4 with a meager 14 LP.

That's just the tip of the maddening iceberg that is Solo Queue as of late. I made it my goal this season (After being placed in Bronze 4 this season, thx Rito) to achieve Gold. I was quite close in fact. But as of a week ago, I've gotten nothing but feeders, trolls and people who have no damned clue how to play the game competently as my teammates. Like I mentioned before, it's as if someone flipped a switch and all of these bad bad bad bad players flooded in. Maybe it's close to end of season and all the baddies are scrabbling to get their rewards last-minute? I don't know.

What I do know is I'm tired of it. Ranked is stressful enough for someone playing their best, I don't need the additional stress of teammates who would lose a match even if they were up against chimpanzees bashing their keyboards with stones. I can't carry these kinds gormless braindead 'people'. I have simply resigned myself to the fact that I won't be getting to Gold 5 before end of the season while these people exist in the queue. I'm just going to give up on getting the hallowed Victorious Skin for this season and just stick with my grey... I mean 'Silver' border.

I'm tired of the toxicity. Tired of the stupid people who don't have the game knowledge required to be competent at this game (it's not hard). Frankly, I'm tired of the fact that ranked is the place you try your best to win, yet these people clearly aren't trying their best, or don't even have the brain to do their best. Solo Queue has become a toxic environment just out of the blue. Sure, it's stressful normally. But why should my good win rate and LP be trashed because of some f*ckheads who don't bother to learn about the game or practice the role they want?

I'm done. I'll climb to gold next season.