As I get closer to Level 30

The game gets less and less enjoyable. Maybe that's because more opponents know what they're doing so I have less room to mess around. Maybe I've stumbled into the territory of Meta cultists. Maybe I just don't like competitive games as much as I thought.

But as I've gotten further and further along, the fun has just dropped out my matches. I can't mess around with new champs or strategies without teammates yelling at me for being bad. Every loss has that douche who spams "EZ" after every kill. I see the same 20 champs in every match and all of them are no fun to play against.

Any tips to keep playing without hating myself? Aside from bot games. Pointing somebody to bot games for practice in League is like pointing somebody toward a man in a wheelchair for a footrace.