User blog comment:Satoriis/How to Carry Bronze in Season 4/@comment-8919271-20140226070920

I'd rather say that saying "I can't climb because my teammates suck" is true most of the time. Because they do. Alot. And they continue to suck in silver, even moreso in gold. Only thing that changes with leagues is how hard snowballing is; games in silver let you set up a comeback way more easily than games in plat, in fact most upper gold and plat games are just downright stomping the enemy team.

No matter how good you are, teammates can and will weight you down, and sometimes when enemy team is just obviously better organised, has early lead and, unlike your team, isn't flaming themselves for every little mistake, you just can't win. Obviously, this can also happen in your team, if you yourself aren't toxic and play well; however, team being bad is more noticeable and memorable, because you're more annoyed with bad teammates than you're happy with good teammates. And because there is luck involved in both games and matchmaking, you can have pretty big losestreaks where it's just safe to say that they happened just because of the teams you were getting.