'Elo Hell'? Elo Hell.

There's a lot of people debating (No, that's too nice of a word for what they're doing... more like raging at each other) about whether 'Elo Hell' actually exists. I've seen a lot of posts on the topic, and I have to say that, in my experience, there is an Elo Hell.

And it's totally ruined the fun of this game for me.

Now I'm not going to say I'm the world's greatest player and that I never lose lane or it's never my fault. I'm not going to pretend I'm the perfect player and never make mistakes. However, I do feel that I am a decent player, and I should not be having this problem of losing every. Single. Solo queue. Game. For the last few months. Whether it's ranked or normals, the only time I sometimes pull wins off is when I'm queuing with friends, and even then, wins are scarce.

Now the first thing I already hear those more professional players muttering is 'well maybe you're not good at all'. Well, that's probably true, I'm not a fantastic player. However, a lot of my friends are gold or platinum, and when we do 1v1's or full custom games, I can keep up with them very well. And most of them are still climbing ranks, yet I sit here in bronze. While I know I'm not the best, I'm fairly good.

The first issue is obviously the sheer amount of dc's I see. It's at least every 1 out of 3 games that someone on my team disconnects. It's not easy to fight a 4v5, even as a fed carry champion. There's too much pressure on every lane, especially when the reason our teammate dc'd is usually due to feeding their enemy laner.

And on the topic of feeding... Oh god, the main issue I have. I usually either win lane, or start losing it but start staying close to tower but in xp range to avoid giving more kills. It's not perfect, but I can farm under tower relatively well, and in bronze not many people think to freeze the lane to deny the weaker enemy xp and gold, so I usually stay pretty close to cs with them. The problem is that other lanes rarely win. And I know, it sounds like I'm passing loses off on my team. I'm not. I make mistakes, I lose lane, I've fed my enemy laner sometimes. But in almost every game I have had in the past few month, almost no other lanes win. Really. I'm serious. It's ridiculous. Whether I have won or lost lane, we still have the problem of one or two other lanes or other jungler being fed. I would think evetually I would have to get the better of the two horrid teams, but it hasn't happened for a long time.

If I do nothing but stay in lane, the feeding gets worse. So, if I am ahead in lane, I'll try to roam. Maybe it's successful, maybe I get my ass kicked by someone more fed than me and they 2v1 us, maybe nothing happens at all. Roaming usually results in a loss of the first tower in my lane, but it's an acceptable loss if the team can pull out from being behind. Usually it doesn't happen like that though. Usually I'll be shut down (if I was ahead to start with) and the game continues to steamroll from there in the enemy's favor. If I decide to stay in lane, I am usually ganked under tower and destroyed by the other fed enemies. Wards just can't help much when they can 100-0 you under tower. If I was positive, I'm negative in score after the ganks and utter wreckage. If I was already negative, then I become a punching bag for the enemy team. If anyone tries to get the team together for team fights or objectives, it's mostly ignored.

I can't win at all in solo normals even, and I'm just tired of it. Tired of losing and feeling bad whether my score was positive or negative, whether I fed or got fed. It's sickening to see defeat after defeat unless I'm with other friends, who don't want to play too much with me because even then there's three other randoms who usually turn out to not be so good. They see my problem too and have seen me try to play these games and do well in some of them only to be destroyed by enemies who did even better in lane. It's so trying to lose all solo normals and ranked games for nearly three months. It's just not fun anymore. I love this game and all, but I can't go through this crap much longer. It's just pathetic...