User blog comment:Jk44/People these days in ranked/@comment-5556439-20130417222834

There is absolutely no way to beat this. After the worst playing I have ever seen in my entire LoL career was shown to me during my placements, I have refused to play ranked ever again, I get 2x the skill and 2x the playing in normal Draft picks. There is ultimately no way to beat these people and they always ruin games. At least for me anyway, its never any more than 1 person on my team. Its always ONE person. A perfect example, yesterday I was playing Caitlyn, and in champion select my Duo partner and I told him that if he locked in Nunu that bot would be extremely passive and we wouldnt get anywhere, most likely lose tower and not get fed. He said w/e, proceeded to instalock. Guess what? He didnt see that we had no jungler, so he statred to cuss me out and say that I lost usthe game, and said in all caps "FUCK YOU CAIT YOU SLIMEY SACK OF SHIT, NO JUNGLE = NO WIN FUCKTARD, REPORT YOU ALL DAY AND NIGHT DICKHEAD" so I told him "lolz bR0z Y0u n33dz T00 calmz d0wn lawl" and proceeded to mute him. And what do you know? We lost bottom, I died twice to their Tristana and we lost the game. Even though I out-cs'd her and outplayed her in 3 trades, she still got me 2 times becuase of her supports kit, which Nunu lacks. All of this was an exact true story

In the end, just dont play ranked unless your on the top of your game. If you see even a slight chance a dude might feed, such as not choosing a champ until the last second then dodge it, losing a few LP is better than dropping steps in the ladder.