I think all of riots problems would be solved if match making was actually fair.... every game is either an easy win or impossible.... the problem is you have 5 members on each team, every game, and elo is based on wins/losses ONLY which means a lot of winning and losing is up to chance even if you play your role well. Not only that, since match making inherently fails at determining a player's elo at least until higher elos, it brings even more randomness to the team.

Other factors such as relative number of deaths compared to team mates, assists + kills ( as one stat), and so on, must be taken into account.

The League of Legends community doesn't need more bans. It needs better matching so that the game is enjoyable for everyone, and mismatched games don't just make people angry and sick of this game, for them to spoil the next game because they're still mad.

Not to mention improving match maker will also help players improve their skills by matching against people that are closer to their skill level on the enemy side, and if everyone in the game is fairly even it makes the game AMAZINGLY fun. Everyone has had those games where you fight hardout for an hour, lose eventually but you don't care because it was hard fought!

Riot claims that they don't like randomness, but MM is the greatest random factor in the entire game. As I've stated a thousand times already, ELO is suposed to measure your skill level, not your team's. Yet ELO goes up/down taking into consideration only if your team has won/lost, regardless of how well you played. Also, a guy who was lucky and won 200 matches but only lost 180(MM is suposed to give you a 1:1 win/lose ratio) is in the same ELO as a guy who won 2000 games and lost 1980.
And just some feedback, Riot: Only one out of ten game are actually balanced, in my personal experience as a player. A 1:1 win/lose ratio does not mean every game is balanced, it just means you theoretically lose as much as you win.

Do you know how hard it is to coordinate 4 people who are GOOD to play with you whenever you need to in low elo?

RIot should just take into account Kills + assists (as one value) and compare it to others on the same team, or at the VERY least, count deaths. It doesn't matter how squishy your own champion is, if you are a good player you should NOT die constantly.

This thread needs to get a lot more attention. I have a fair fight about once a week.

I seriously believe if people think about it, all the raging etc. is caused by this.

Matchmaking can't ever be truly balanced. ELO is a simple number given to not calculate how "good" you are, its a number given to calculate where you rank on the ladder stacked up to other players. You don't actually get players with 200 wins and 190 losses being paired up against players with 2000 wins, unless that person with 2000 wins has had a LOT of losses (would have to be close to 3k losses.) Wins don't determine your elo either. I have a friend with almost 700 wins, but almost 800 losses. I on the other hand have 270 wins to 220 losses and am much higher in elo than him (we're talking about normal games here.) The higher up the ladder you go without losing elo, the more you get paired against people who also have higher elo's (this should be common sense to you guys.) Eventually you're going to hit a wall where you stop winning for a bit (especially when queueing with multiple people.) After you've lost a few matches, you'll resume winning. When you hit this plateau of winning and losing on and off, thats where you belong. From here you have two options. A) Start understanding why you're losing to the higher elo players that you can't seem to beat and think you're being unfairly matched against. B) Accept that you have reached your peak and will stay in this general elo.

It's not that matchmaking is stupidly random... its that if you're queueing as a full premade... its going to try and pair you up against full premades.... this means sometimes, you'll get REALLY good players. If you're solo queueing and win 10 games in a row... expect that reign to end, because you're going to boost your elo into a higher bracket where sometimes better players may be.

If you win 200 matches and only lose 30 times... you better believe you're going to get paired against a guy with 2k wins and 1500 losses... and thats because you deserve to be playing those people... accept it as an honor... not as a flaw.