User blog comment:MaqiiCz/Ranked Games/@comment-3466579-20130712103141

My personal advices: 1) pick a mid laner you can play really well or 2) just keep playing. You'll eventually rank up. Eventually. Unless you can actually carry your games by yourself you'll need more luck then skill in order to win games, at least, in low divisions.

I am a silver division V, i was put there after my first 10 ranked games and i didn't play more then 20 ranked games since then. Why? Because i got tired of losing games due to my team mates mistakes. I'm a support player, i almost always played supports in my ranked games. You don't know how frustrating supporting can be. You win your bot lane, you do really good, you have control over the map and over the enemies' wards. You end your games with scores like 3/3/22, 1/4/14, 4/5/18 and... you lose. You lose because your mid or top laner fed 0/5/0 in 15 minutes, or maybe because your jungler refuses to gank a lane. You can even fail because you're 4v5.

I mean, you can be good and you can do good, but you still have to cope with your team mates, and you can't really control them much. If you can pick a good mid you play godlike and carry the game it's gg, else you'll have to cross your fingers and hope your team mates won't fail. I don't remember the last time my team lost because the enemies were actually better then us.