It sucks that in low-mid ELOs that games are basically determined by which team has less ragers...

Been trying out my luck in ranked and I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing wrong, but it seems that either my team is full of ragers (which seems to be 3/4s of the time) or the enemy team is and my team doesn't have any.

I only have around 30 ranked games played, but it's kind of ridiculous. The amount of toxicity compared to my normal games is ridiculous. It's hard to stay interested in ranked when it seems that more than every other game has a person just constantly bitching, pinging, feeding, raging, etc. It's super discouraging... I started this weekend excited to try and get to gold. Instead I've played around 10 ranked games (I was 1 win away from promos), I'm now lower than I was at the beginning of this struggle.

I literally had a game where a guy fed just to spite me, for absolutely no reason at all besides that I "sucked". I normally don't talk, sometimes I'll ask people to calm down (as kindly as I can) but that's about it. I'll say "good jobs" or when sums are used as well. Yet the game before last I had a person literally ping me every time I missed a blitz hook. Last game I had a "9 win streak" Annie "in their promos" who bitched every time they got ganked and repeatedly said the game was over, was obviously tilted and was playing very poorly (ended game with 12 deaths, almost half our teams combined).

3/10 of my last games actually felt like my personal skill was put to the test to play through the game. 1 of them was an easy win, though I didn't get carried. The rest were just stressful raging teammate filled messes.

I hate blaming my teammates for my losses, but in all honesty I feel like I get held captive by these people majority of the time. I want to improve, I want to get better so I can climb. But I don't feel like I'm improving in these games where they all end with people yelling at eachother at the end.

Sort of a rant-y diary entry post here, but god damn.

Update: Well, queued for another game, mid and jungle argued with eachother. Top fed really hard. I'm stuck as support. Feels pretty great when your top and mid have 18 deaths in 20 minutes.