User blog comment:ObsidianLazarus/Feeling Trapped in Ranked./@comment-8506165-20130902064706

Hum... I had a midlane Kassadin in one of my games lose to Ahri fairly recently. He got fairly thoroughly abused by our Varus who kept yelling at us to "focus Ahri" then getting himself killed by chasing after her through the entire enemy team. So in that game I blamed him for the loss more than anyone else, seeing as he'd actually gotten a decent amount of feed and we might have won some teamfights if he'd stayed alive longer. Might even have been the same game you're talking about.

Personally if I get ganked early and I don't have the money to buy a ward / do a special and forget to buy a ward I just start refusing to push at all. Junglers tend to remember if lanes are free kills for them due to lack of wards so if I die to one gank, I expect to see the jungler there again fairly soon. So I freeze the lane and just use ranged abilities for my last-hitting if I'm melee.

As for the whole "losing promo games" thing - if you're constantly getting up for promo you're clearly good enough to get out of the division you're in, it's just possibly the pressure of it you react badly to.