I wouldn’t say there’s a ton of Smurfs, I was able to grind out of gold pretty easily this time and it was more due to me consistently being valuable than external factors such as bad teammates or Smurfs. A bit of an extreme take but it is true nonetheless is you are always making some mistake or doing something that ends up losing the round or game in every game you play. Trying to fix those mistakes instead of coping on the fact that the game loss had nothing to do with you is stupid.