riot logic

played my first ranked today, not a single mob dropped an item, gave me a bunch of gold which undoubtedly led me to have a stronger early game than everyone else and then i was last pick on the first 3 carousels, where there were expensive champs with good items for all the people who already had items from PVE and now they get expensive champs which makes all the gold i received earlier less meaningful AND they have items, then after 3 carousels everyone uses their items to destroy me, 4th carousel rolls around, nothing but armor and MR and no expensive champs on 4TH CAROUSEL so i get my 4th item of the game, on a 2 gold champ, these 4 items i have dont make anything good, in my next fight i face someone with 4 completed items on their champs and a component sitting on deck, they wreck me and deal 33(+) damage and kill me

unless im getting 20 gold then i dont want gold instead of an item, and even still, id give up 20 gold for an item any day but rarely would i give up an item for 20 gold

also if getting gold is equivelent of getting an item then you should be able to sell items for gold, but you cant sell items for gold, because items are worth too much, but then why am i losing items for a pittance of gold? riot logic doesnt follow riot logic smh