Yet another topic about elo hell? Riot, can you please help?

I know many people are tired of it – especially those who already escaped the lower ranks. You’ve probably been through a lot of horrible losses, that your poorly performing teammates brought over you, and you’ve probably learned a lot during those games and you think, that players in bronze and silver should stop whining and take the learning experience to get better.

While I do understand and generally support the argument, I do think that there is something like elo hell and it is utterly disappealing to someone like me: I do have a competitive drive but I am not a full time gamer – I like to enjoy my games by being good at them and getting my rewards for them. I don’t want to spend months with several matches a day having mostly a bad experience until I am finally in a rank, where not your whole team is ruining your games. I want 1 or 2 games a day, with a day off or two, but quality games, while I climb the latter.

Now my problem is: all the progress I made and the good feeling I have is overshadowed by the losses I suffer, while having the strong feeling to have done a great performance in the game. Of course this can happen and as long as my progress isn’t ruined by this, I can live with it. But in this case, I was finally getting out of silver 4 – which took 3 promos: And I couldn’t even enjoy it. When I first reached the promos, I was energized and motivated and won my first game easily – and then I kept losing because of my teammates. I fought back to promos again, lost 2 games in a row another time because of my teammates. And in the third run I finally did it. I played many more games than I actually wanted to play, only to finally get there. But my success was overshadowed by all the horrible times I had in those losses. Afterwards however, I got back to my playing routine, won a few games, lost a few games – but then there was another losing streak made in elo hell. And I dropped back out of silver 3. Now basically all my motivation is gone.

To give a little detail: I am maining support – I think it’s a beautiful role and I was very glad that Riot seemed like trying to improve the image of that role (albeit with little success). My ability to carry is limited, but I am not focusing on my impact-disadvantage-because-of-playing-support. Still: In most of those losses, I was the only one with a positive KDA, often times I was the only one who had less than 10 deaths on my team. When playing Zyra or Brand, I easily get a lot of kills and damage. In the said games, I was playing Zyra a lot – being more of an APC, since the midlaner was feeding, with still fulfilling my supporting duties. But the feeding is only one thing: it’s the ignorance towards communication and smart pings. It’s the flaming and toxicity amongst your teammates. All that adds up to a horrible experience, while I myself try to focus on playing the top of my game – for the team. But still: In the end my team runs into the jungle (who needs wards? Many silver players don’t even know blue trinkets exist!) even though I’ve pinged them not to do so and told them often enough to fight in lanes. They get picked off and all suicide after another, the game is lost. I often times get A or B ratings in those losses.

What do I want to achieve with this post? Probably I want to talk about it to feel better. That’s one thing. I also want other people to share their experience – somewhere in silver must be someone who knows what a blue trinket is and how to use it, who can feel my pain. But what I really want is a fairer LP-distribution and demotion-praxis. (btw: I really like the free wins in promotions, they do motivate me.) I don’t want to be demoted for games, where obviously the whole team is like 2/13, while I – the support – am 4/2 with most damage. (Not to speak about tank support games – how can you measure my performance?!) Hell, I don’t even want to lose another 20 LP for that loss. For enduring that torture I feel like I deserve to receive LP and not be taken away – but I would be fine with not losing any. I don't know if this is a role specific thing - maybe you don't want to punish supports as hard as solo-laners. But then again, even if you're not the support, you might be stuck in elo hell despite playing well, having a positive mindset set on improvement and being a good summoner. Maybe LP should be linked to your game rating: If you got an A, you don't lose LP - something like that.

TL;DR: Riot, pls don’t demote good players suffering from elo hell – they are already punished enough.