Not able to enjoy the game anymore, because of the community...

I know I know, oh there's another rage comment about the toxic community... (That's what I would probably say at least) That's why I want to say that this is not about my rank, or me not being able to climb but more about missing those "Good" games.

In my opinion the level of toxicity in the community has become a bit ridiculous lately, I finally got to plat last season and was loving the game. Now I recently got placed in silver 2 after picking the game up again and things have gotten.... worse. The community has become so extremely toxic that I'm woried some people in this game want to start a freaking world war over it or something. I always try to stay positive to the team (I get angry sometimes yes, but not at them, I try to keep that to myself) saying we're doing alright and that we can bring back the game. Sometimes this works out and we're able to win the game with a nice teamfight and I love doing that, those are the games I really enjoy even if we don't win them. We just keep trying and things get really tense. These are the games I remember from my climb to silver in season 3 and the climb to gold and plat in season 4 and 5. And I loved the game because of these things. I had some games where people would rage, surrender or even leave the game, but those were a minority for me. Might be because I always tried to bring the good out of my team and even the enemy and just enjoy the game or I might've been lucky I don't know. These "good ol' times" are gone though and my new journey started in silver 2 after a lot of games where people raged and surrendered purely because the enemy was ahead or had "OP" champions. I was actually thrilled to start my climb again after my placements since I remembered loving to do so. When I got a division or tier higher I'd get so happy. Allas since my placements people still seemed to just want to surrender when the enemy had the slightest lead and they'd start to complain about noob teammates or OP champions. The good games which I can enjoy are now a minority and a vague memory. Even worse is that I'm slowly starting to get toxic myself. And just now (writing this after that game) I really started to rage. For the first time in almost 2 years I was mad at my team and started flaming them and complaining about the OP champions. It was nothing major luckily and after a few minutes I calmed down. I even apologized after the game...

Thing is, I just can't seem to find enjoyment in the game anymore, because people are just giving up too easily or complain/rage all game long. Many of my friends already gave up hope and abandoned the game and from the ones that remained I abandoned most, because they were starting to get toxic...

I just wanted to tell you guys this, I hope someone has experienced the same and can give me some advice. Maybe I should take a break from the game? Or should I try to find some new friends to play with, so I can play with 5 premades? I'd also like to know if things are still good in the gold ranks, since I have no clue about those at the moment...

Thanks beforehand guys,

FoolishDragon

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