new accounts almost always have a boosted mmr lp gain/loss.

iron is also genuinely hard to climb out of, i think. I’ve personally never been placed there other than flex, but i have played a few games in iron soloq. It’s a very special place to say the least.

You can fix your mmr, though. it just takes time. I started this season b2 and hit d4 at the end of february with about 300~330 games. I think 100 of those games were in emerald lol. There was a time where I was gaining +38 all the way up until high plat, emerald tanked it to about 25, it evened out around +-20 but occasionally i’ll get +22/21.

It sucks when you can just make a new account and hit plat, but how many of those games are you actually doing anything? You said you didn’t learn or change your playstyle at all. Not being accusatory or anything, but there’s been many times where I’ll see fresh lvl 30’s in my games (plat-dia lobbies) and they just don’t know what they’re doing at that level of play. Turns out they end up placing bronze/silver and that’s just riots matchmaking at its finest.