Riot your ranking system is so broken it contradicts itself.
Let me start off by saying that i'm not one to complain about something that I deserve, never once have I complained about not being able to climb and never once did I complain about being in Bronze. Last season, I finally was able to grind my way out from Bronze 4 to Silver 2 and keep it there for a good two months before going down to 4 and then again breaking even there. The thing is that when a soft reset happens that it wipes the slate clean for placements and pairs anyone with anyone however, takes player history into account during game time. Now, the biggest problem with this is the fact that you are literally paired up with ANYONE from ANY DIVISION during their provisions. Why is this such a big problem? Because the ranking system takes into ABSOLUTELY NO account on previous placement or experience while pairing you up with teammates, it only takes that into account when you're already IN THE GAME.
MEANING THAT IF YOU'RE PAIRED AGAINST PEOPLE THAT WERE FROM A LOWER TIER FROM THE PREVIOUS SEASON THEN NO MATTER WHAT YOU'RE PUNISHED, YET YOU'RE EXPECTED BY THE SYSTEM TO WIN GAMES AGAINST PEOPLE WHO ARE ABOVE YOUR DIVISION BECAUSE THE SYSTEM LITERALLY TRICKED ITSELF INTO THINKING THAT YOU'RE ON THEIR LEVEL! THIS METHOD LITERALLY FUCKS ANYONE WHO HAS A MAJORITY OF THEIR PROVISION GAMES AGAINST ANYONE IN LOWER DIVISIONS WHILE PUNISHING THOSE WHO CAN'T WIN AGAINST PEOPLE WHO ARE CLEARLY BETTER THAN THEM!
There's not influence from the player on what he/she is matched against and there is no consideration at all taken into account with who she is paired with. THE SYSTEM LITERALLY FUCKS ITSELF IN THE ASS AND THEN SCREWS THE PLAYER OVER BECAUSE OF IT. There's no excuse for this Riot besides lazy programming. I'm not asking for a perfect system or even a good one, but for fuck sake at least make it make fucking sense.
Rant over.
And before anyone comes in to say "Oh well if you're that good you'll climb out anyway." that's not what i'm getting at. If you think this way then you're completely ignoring the actual issue here. Yes, I can and will climb out. But why the fuck should I be put into a spot that's an entire tier lower then me just so I can grind up to it again. It needless time and effort wasted. I don't want to spend hours climbing back up again just because a broken system couldn't follow it's own rules. I want to get put back to at least close to where I was before so that I can play with that level of skill and actually improve.