This game is cancer

TLDR: My thoughts and personal experiences and what I think would make the game more tolerable and fair.

I call it cancer because I hate it but I can't stop playing it. I've played for 4 years now and I can't make it out of elo hell. I don't understand why I want to keep playing even though all this game does is give me extreme depression; Its like heroine. I play, win a game or two and feel great then go on an extreme losing streak. Not too long ago I was S2 in promos. I lost the promo and ever since I've been on a downward spiral winning about 20% of the time for the past 4 months. Now I'm B3 and my progression is looking dismal and unlikely. I go on ridiculous losing streaks sometimes up to 10 games in a row! This is all the sudden, I've been playing ranked for almost 2 years now. I just don't understand, I played well and was doing so good. Nothing about my play style has changed at all, it just suddenly became bad I guess? I just don't get it. I almost made it to gold and now I'm back in bronze with an lp gain/loss of 10/20. I literally have to win 4 games now to make up for one loss. Why is this even possible? I work 6 days a week and have time to play about 6 games a day. Sometimes I don't see a win for 3 days of my real time life. I've heard the old saying that "if everywhere you go smells like shit, its probably time to check your own shoes". I'm willing to admit that I'm not like plat/diamond material but I also don't believe that I deserve the title of 'bronze'. All I ever wanted was to get gold and then only play ranked a little bit to maintain that gold border I'd have for normal games.

I'm currently working on a smurf, taking my time to get 100% of the necessary requirements to do ranked. but the thing that sucks is that I've spent so much money on this my main account. I bet I've spent over $1000 buying champs/skins/boosts/boxes. I got hextec annie the hard, expensive way for example. I just don't want to abandon this account and the time/money I've put into it. But isn't it a joke that you can make a smurf to avoid bad mmr? That is one of the reasons this game is cancer. Bronze/silver is just full of utterly mismatched players, no matter what the system thinks their mmr is. These low tiers are full of so much garbage that the game just isn't balanced. No matter what, this game is not possible to 100% carry yourself through. Its a team game, and that means that its not just your enemy that causes you to lose. As a matter of fact, I honestly believe that most of my losses were caused by my team mates playing incorrectly in some fashion. This is why I think the ranked system needs an overhaul and I want to make a few suggestions just to vent here.

I believe that every new season it should be 100% wipe across the board for everyone. Everyone's MMR gets reset, k/d/a should be wiped, literally everything. I also think that demotion between leagues should be impossible. I think that ip gain/losses should be one static number based off of the league you're in and tier you're in. The system now is broken and unfair. Its not 'hard' its just 'punishing'. The way the game is designed now, in order to progress no matter what league/rank you are you have to win about 75% of the time. My opinion is that you should be progressing laterally even if you're only winning 50.000000000000000000000005% of the time. To put it into perspective, right now I have a 47% winrate. To me, that says I should basically be staying right where I'm at and not going in either direction (maybe falling back a little for that 3%). Instead, I find myself a whole league and 2 tiers behind where I once was, where it takes me at least 3 wins in a row to actually make progress. This game is punishing me way too harshly. How in the hell is it fair to suggest that I should need to win 4/5 games to be moving up?

I also think that this game should reward players based off of how they do as an individual in the match and not just a blanket win/loss. Lets take world of warcraft for example. The way the ranked pvp works is pretty awesome and not punishing. Each player gains/loses honor based off of how they did with only a small loss/gain of honor for the overall outcome of the match. When you personally take part in capturing objectives or get killing blows, and the less deaths you have, it increases the amount of honor you gain if you win, or decreases the amount you lose if you fail. In league its just unrewarding. You can go 0/30/0 but it doesn't matter at all to your mmr or lp gain/loss at the end. You're not punished/rewarded individually which just doesn't make sense. It takes individuals to make a team. This new social player status rating system at the end proves that.