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ELO Hell Exists

KillTheYordle·4/28/2018, 5:00:55 PM·4 votes·1,088 views

If a Bronze or Silver tells you they're in ELO hell, don't dismiss them for something that "doesn't exist" The game is a team game, not a solo game. If it were a solo game, ELO hell wouldn't exist. But when one person can hinge the match from doing so shit, but one person can't win the match from doing so well; that's where the ELO hell comes in. ELO hell is having your team flame eachother, even if you go 10/3 before 20 minutes. ELO Hell is having your jungler refuse to team fight or protect base out of spite of taking a jungle camp. ELO Hell is having your top laner refuse to come help you in a 1v1 just above Barons pit, simply because you didn't gank him when you were bot side. ELO Hell is having your support run away from you, never using their utility just because you auto-piloted and took a cannon minion when they had runics up. ELO hell is having your ADC farm all game because Jungler didn't play Heralds bot.

League Of Legends is a team game, one bad person has a larger impact than the best. I was 13/7/3, the 7 deaths only coming in later. Everything was fine, every lane was doing perfect, but our Darius started to spam ping, and 4 minutes into the match, without a word "Report Zac" followed by more flaming to Zac later on He spammed surrender, and when he saw all of us refused, he simply said "Enjoy your game" sticking to top lane from there on out, and when they were taking our base turrets; he was taking their wolves. We lost simply because we couldn't 5v5, only 4v5. Best thing is, after the game, he admitted to just wanting to fuck up my ELO.

Or how about the game I just had, where middle was flaming jungle, jungle was flaming mid, sup and top were flaming jungle. Which led to mid feeding and having a Yasuo roam around the map with 7 kills under his belt before ten minutes.

I recognise, from my match history it's clear; I'm not the best player. I can probably sit comfortably at high silver, low gold. But when my game is fucked, and I get demoted simply because of trolling; which I seem to get matched with every match, it makes me want to stop playing this game. Oh, and that Darius? I filed a report to a Rioter themselves; he's still been playing, unbanned.

1 Comments

rtbf704898324/28/2018, 5:42:51 PM2 votes

I agree to an extent. I believe that the current ranked system does place too much stress on teammates ability to hinder other individuals' progress up the ranked ladder. Elo hell more specifically is when a player feels and sometimes actually is performing well constantly, but is losing games played well regardless. This is because the game does at all lower elos (till id say high diamond and master/challenger) express the inconsistency of terammates more so than the consistancy of the individual player. Whereas at high diamond and master/challenger the player base I think is rather on par with each other and thus the individual outplay is the greater factor in winning a game. I am not saying that there are Plat/diamond players in bronze/silver but I am saying that there are players that are in bronze that should be silver and silver players that should be gold. Not a big deal right? wrong this causes players to be playing with worse players and not being challenged and are trying to beat a "ringed" system to just games where they are playing against equally skilled opponents where they can then improve: Iron sharpens iron kinda thing. Thus I agree Elo hell is a thing but it is not the players' fault but Riots Lp loss gains strictly being determined by winning or losing that is to blame.