User blog comment:Tyrant Belial/Stuck in a Hole with Matchmaking/@comment-5194571-20120806205331

I get this all the time. I don't know if I'm really bad or if I'm losing because of other people. I've got to say, there are bad players every match, regardless of the team. I played AP Nunu mid earlier today. The enemy team had a Trynd jungle. From what it looks like, he had never jungled before, he had never played Trynd before and had no understanding of what he can and can't do. Autoattack me constantly while I'm right next to a wave of his minions to heal from? Really? And then he wondered why he couldn't kill me... I do have a bigger problem with people facechecking though. The amount of times First Blood is given away to my enemy team because someone facechecked a brush at lvl 1. Sometimes, I want to give up on the match there.

I found a semi-reliable solution to this, however. Play on the Twisted Treeline. It won't matter as much if your allies are really bad. There are less on the other team to worry about, and a maximum of 2 really bad players on your team is still better than a max of 4, right? If two of you do really well, it's possible to win on that map, even if someone goes 0/12. If it gets that point, just tell them not to get any kills. The kill gold reward resets to 300 after someone gets a kill. So if they feed, tell them not to get any kills so the enemy team get less gold for killing them. Eventually, it won't matter if they die. Killing a creep will be worth more. I know this method works. After being on a pretty bad losing steak in 5v5 for the same reasons as you, I switched to 3v3 and played only my main; Singed. I ended up with a 12-win streak. Even with a bad team, I dominated. Even sending 2 to camp my lane wasn't enough and I carried 75% of those 12 games. Theoretically, you should do the same.