When you can't climb out of "elo hell" but your grandmother can.

Well you can make some math project thing on your own, you cant win a game on your own most of the time.

This. When I was in school, I'd offer to do the entirety of a project just so the others would leave me alone (or in exchange for them presenting it, because I hate public speaking). I was the class nerd, I was capable of doing that work by myself and getting a good grade on it, everyone else just had to sit back and let me do it.

A League game can be compared to a group project when people in the group project set fire to every other page you write, claiming they're helping when really they're making it harder for you.

You simply cannot claim that out of the the millions of players that play league, there isn't at least one player who consistently gets unlucky and dragged down by their teammates.

I can claim that this group is extremely small, and that in players with a reasonably high number of games played, it should be practically unnoticable. I can also claim that every player I've ever seen complain about Elo hell isn't stuck due to bad luck. They were where they belonged. Finally, I can claim that there are plenty of cognitive biases that are way, way more likely for people to have than the kind of abysmally bad luck it would take to get stuck in bronze for a good period of time when you don't belong there.

Statistically, it has to be real. Practically, it also has to be so small that it doesn't matter if it's technically real. It's also just good advice in general for people seeking to raise their rank and get better to not get in the habit of blaming games on their teammates, which is absolutely a way bigger problem than Elo hell is.

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And this is why you don't listen to random grandmothers on the internet XD

Elo hell is a statistical certainty due to the size of the league playerbase. You simply cannot claim that out of the the millions of players that play league, there isn't at least one player who consistently gets unlucky and dragged down by their teammates. There has to be some small but significant size of population that is trapped in an elo hell. There are 1.2 million ranked accounts on NA alone. Unless you are going to make the retarded claim that all 1.2 million accounts are exactly where they should be, you have to acknowledge that there are account above where they should be and accounts below where they should be (i.e. elo hell).

Funny thing is that most of the people talking about elo hell wasn't actually around in season 1 when the term originated. At least now, ranked has been around for 6 years and the majority of accounts are relatively close to where they should be. The start of season 1 was a complete shit show where it wasn't uncommon to see accounts sitting 100, 200, even 300 points below the player's skill level for extended periods of time due to randomness of the initial ranked release.

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