That makes sense. I was gold in S2 with like 80 games played and aside from knowing the meta and pacing of the game my opponents don't seem any better than what I'm used to, if maybe a little less skilled. I don't really see the point in going beyond gold if the rewards are the same. New shiny nameplate might be cool, but I rarely get my best lane (mid), and usually play support. It's not all bad I guess, I just hate never being able to build anything until the game's basically over if we're winning, or not at all if we're losing. Fuck wards, seriously.
They should remove green wards and restrict the multi-ward items to two per team, and up the price of pinks to 200, elixir to 600 and reapply the lost on death attribute.