I'm not a good player, I'm pretty bad and pretty new, but me (Iron 3) and my (Iron 3 - Bronze 1) friends queue up in ranked to have some fun games and get either stomped by an admitted Gold or higher smurf or by some fortunate chance we have the smurf on our team and we win games. I'm not saying I'm good. I'm new to the game and definitely am bad and am trying to get better. I play with my friends who are higher rank than me (Silver 2-3 and Gold 1), and those games are hard but they're still evenly matched when we're 5 stacking. But how's anyone supposed to get better and have fun when they solo queue Iron games and smurfs are so rampant in these lower rank games?

I'm not even saying i'm hardstuck because of smurfs. I'm not gonna move out of Iron unless I get better for sure because I'm really bad at the game, but I do want games that are more evenly matched than a Jett going 30-4 and a sage going 21-2, while the rest of their team combined has 23 kills because they're Iron 2-3 and the Jett and Sage are smurfing becuase they state "I can't win at my rank."

And just pre-emptively before anyone says "if someone's smurfing they'll soon get out of that rank": People throw games and also just make brand new accounts to smurf again.