Silver is not a pleasant place
Okay lads... I'll be honest. This is kind of a QQ thread where I ponder why I even bother with ranked anymore.
Alright, so when I first started this games ranked mode, I was placed in bronze 4. Within a few weeks I was silver 1 easily. After the new "improved" Provisional system, I got placed in s3 with 7/3 and I dropped like a goddamn stone. I'm s5 now with 0 lp and I simply cannot get out. My winrate plummeted, my mmr tanked and I just simply can't climb back out again. They tell me that it's my fault that I'm there and that I belong there. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I play jungle normally, I ward well, I call dragons after ganking botlane and getting a couple of kills... the only problem is, nobody goes in with me. Ever. I go to do dragon with mid and botlane tower gone, nobody comes to help me. I go in for a gank, my lane decides that running in the opposite direction is a better call. The gank itself would have ended in a kill for us if they'd go in, I ping, I hit them with cc only to watch my laner run and back with half his mana and most of his hp. I get games where someone afks, or is just so toxic that they make everyone play worse simply by being toxic. I get these games two times out of three. I only get about 13-19 lp a win, yet I lose about 20 a loss. So I'll win a game with great people who don't bash each other and actually manage to NOT FEED in lane and go in with me in ganks... then I'll immediately lose two games because of just sheer incompetence. There lies my problem, I don't know how I can do better. This is a team game, and therefore, my individual skill seems above where I'm at, yet not enough to faceroll. My friend in Diamond says that I should be gold with how I play, yet here I am 0 LP at s5 and unable to get past even 50 LP. What am I doing wrong? My map awareness is great, my warding is where it needs to be in that I actually ward even when I'm not support, my builds are what they should be and I adapt them for different situations, I ping whenever I do ANYTHING of importance (i.e. ganks, dragon, baron, counterjungling), I even take it upon myself to try and diffuse angry teammates, to no avail of course. I do all of this in s5 when I didn't do it in s1, explain to me again, why I'm silver if it's not my teammates that I have to play with, but my own faults, when I've vastly improved gameplay wise, yet have been demoted to s5 from s1. I'm seeing people who were Gold last season in the same boat. They were gold then, are silver now and can't climb back out again.
I just want to get to Gold so I can have fun in ranked rather than just normals. Don't get me wrong, I love normals... but I don't feel like I'm really winning anything.
