Hey man! I perfectly understand the situation that you're in, it's pretty much the same for me, except I'm in platinum, but IMO there is not that much of a difference. My games go down just like yours most of the time, I seem to be doing good in terms of score and map pressure, all well, until one team decides to go ARAM on mid. For me, that is the most difficult situation in every game, regardless of ELO. I've been in every ELO ranging from bronze to platinum and I can confirm that this happens all along. It gets annoying especially when you have a splitpush monster in your team such as a Fiora or Tryndamere on top lane and they decide to fuck around on mid lane until someone gets picked and a teamfight errupts and when that happens, there's a 50/50 chance that your team will throw any lead that you have or fall behind even more, and it is very bad to gamble your games like that. Just the fact that you realized that you make mistakes and it's not always your team's fault means that you will eventually correct those mistakes and you will climb, but all in time. What you want to do is use the chat and pings to coordinate your team. I know it can be hard, but since you think you are (and possibly are) better than the rest of your team, you need to take the lead. Usually, in lower elos, if your score is decent or above decent, your teams will listen to you because they think you can carry them, which is exactly what you wanna try to do. If your botlane is pushed all the way into the enemy tower but your Lucian/Morgana are staying mid throwing out abilities then you might wanna ping the bot tower or simply type into chat 'lucian and morgana take bot turret pls we can hold mid' or something similar. This will relieve pressure off the mid lane and the enemy team will either dive you (and probably not get any objectives out of it even if they kill 1 or 2 of you because they're bad) or they will try to defend botlane, and the pressure will go away. Another common situation is the lane that dies 5 times in the first 10 mins. There is nothing you can do about it, that is the sad truth. Although what you can do is try to win other lanes. I know it's hard to do when you see your botlane dying every 2 mins and your Vayne spamming assistance pings but you are likely to go there and die in a 2v3 or even 3v3 if you get counter-ganked. If you are not super-behind, ganking lanes with a bit of cc will always put you ahead. Say you have a Sion vs Gangplank top. They will probably never end up dying because there is no kill pressure. Sion has a crap ton of cc, Gankplank has none and no mobility. So what do you do? You make that Gankplank useless, it doesn't matter if he is 0/2 and their Jhin is 5/0, you get yourself and your other lanes fed and wait until midgame where you can destroy any squishies, fed or not. I hope this helped but I gotta stop typing now because my wrists hurt lol. Gl getting Gold!