Is ranked matchmaking rigged? Please read my...

[quote=Alyxzr]Hi all, I don't usually post on forums but, I really feel like I need an answer to this, I feel like I am just wasting my time. I've been trying to climb ranked before end of season as I'm sure many of you are, I have a main account which I got into negative win-rate ( it's like 90W / 120L ) or something and I really feel like some games are just impossible to carry. I had a theory that this is because I am being matched with other players sub 50% win-rate and I wanted to test this. I hopped on my old account which had not played any ranked games this season and started playing, just one champion, full focus, full lock-in and I actually performed exceedingly well. I won 9 of my first 10 games. The first game being the loss. So I went 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1 and so on... and I really began to FEEL the quality of my team mates increasing with every game - which made perfect sense to me because my win-rate was increasing. I was so happy, I realised that this was the problem all along. Every team I played with in the first ten games was absolutely brilliant, the games were so easy and everyone knew exactly what they were doing, moving to objectives at the right time and pushing at the right time and I really thought that this must be due to win-rate... for example I was being matched with people in silver when after game five I was only Iron 1 - that's smurf queue right? After Game 10 I was 9W / 1L - that's 90% win-rate, I thought "this is great", I will climb so much easier now because I'll be matched with other high win-rate players! The tenth game, they banned my main but I still went 10/3/14, it was a complete stomp. Then came game 11... suddenly... I was matched with some of the worst players I have ever played with. Everyone on team was inting and I probably could have carried it if it weren't for the Mel in botlane who went 0/10 and just kept walking into the enemy and giving free kills. I checked the profile after the match and it was their first ever ranked game... and in normal games they appeared to be a serial inter, with scores like 0/10 almost every game and mostly losses on their account - I was pretty shocked, suddenly my understanding of how the matchmaking worked didn't seem to make sense anymore. I checked the profiles of the other people and it was a similar story - negative win-rates across the board. I figured maybe it was just a fluke... So I queued up again... Game 12... Another game filled with complete imbeciles who had no idea what they were doing and just inted the whole game... Fine... just bad luck... go next... Game 13... AGAIN another player playing their first ever ranked game going 0/10 - ignoring every warning ping, managing to get themselves killed even when I was pinging that I was coming to help gank their lane... Now I feel completely hopeless... how is this possible? One minute I appear to be in smurf queue with 90% win-rate and the next game, for no discernible reason, I'm babysitting the biggest noobs in Europe? How is this possible? Is it intentional? Is the matchmaking system actually rigged to hamstring high-performing players? I don't get it? They are always saying in Dev posts how they are improving smurf queue and ensuring that this doesn't happen, but it really feels like the system is rigged to prevent me from climbing? Can anyone please help me understand what is happening here? Many thanks! Account: [url=https://mobalytics.gg/lol/profile/euw/oaks-euw/overview]Oaks#EUW[/url] - if anyone's interested[/quote]