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ELO hell is real

BrotherDarkholme·9/4/2016, 10:33:13 PM·2 votes·723 views

So i duo q bot pre and in pre season things were fine got silver 2 i was happy as that was my first ever rank. I played had fun then the new season starts. I failed my promos and so did my partner. We have recently been trying to get out of bronze but every 2 or 3 games there is one person or 2 people that solo fight, dive turret, don't ss, don't ward or straight up feed/flame/afk. This is bad enough as most games in the first 10 min we are OP and fed however no matter how much we support team it's useless. They don't listen. Every guide says stop making excuses but that's not true seriously for example i was 3/0 on jinx at 5 min good farm helped out team where i could played objective. However our top had died twice. jungle went there and then gave the top a double. This top is now 4/0 so we go as team or at least me and 2 others and then win. Then instead of safe play out top keeps 1v1. Then mid flames and jung gets blamed and because we die to the fed opponents we are also blamed. What can we do seriously any actually suggestions.[zombie-nunu-tears]

Seriously desperate every guide says the same but it isn't true every 2 wins you lose like in the way i said and so the 2 wins were useless. Help.

15 Comments

Ohana Means Rekt9/4/2016, 10:41:04 PM1 votes

If your mmr is low enough that for every 2 wins you get the same lp as 1 loss, then the system has determined that you are placed well ahead of what you actually should be. If you're embelishing, however, it won't end up mattering as a 66% win rate will carry you out of whatever "hell" you're in. The only way to climb is to just keep playing and putting more games into ranked. Eventually you will improve mechanically and knowledge wise, but the trolls will continue.

If you are having trouble against fed enemy solo laners, then I recommend you play those solo lanes instead of adc/sup so those lanes don't become a problem.

BrotherDarkholme9/4/2016, 10:48:04 PM1 votes

Thanks I will take that into practice and see how it works. [slayer-jinx-wink]

jaymc11309/4/2016, 10:58:34 PM1 votes

https://i.gyazo.com/08bea8a0a81b7efb7df3dc6f524ed733.png

Unranked to plat 5 promos.

6 afks on my teams.

2 intentional feeders.

The guides are probably right mate.

Yes, it can be frustrating to deal with this type of thing, but a FOCUSED player who is willing to WORK HARD at constantly improving their own play can never be held back by ELO Hell (Yes, it is a real thing, no matter what any one else may tell you, its just probably not what you think it is. ELO Hell is merely a statistical anomaly. It's a stretch of extreme bad luck in a very small sample size of games. Like having to play 10 4v5s in a row. Thats ELO hell. Fortunately this can be cured by increasing the sample size of games), they will always overcome that kind of bad luck.

From the point in that original picture I was trolled in about 100 straight games. Not even joking. About 100 straight. From plat 5 to diamond. I had to play with intentional feeders

https://i.gyazo.com/68990e93df01cbfd7c28985233fca467.png https://i.gyazo.com/af4c54f8a2c24aaf711062a555ccb260.png https://i.gyazo.com/219e4f31f11552062df24e2f30d5cc6f.png https://i.gyazo.com/cd1d08d632c2b6a2c20f590bbce5320c.png

I had to play with trolls

https://i.gyazo.com/thumb/116_w/_d6d96b2fb7a15de5cc59d6b719d1d8a3-png.jpg

And against them

https://i.gyazo.com/thumb/116_w/_11b6c111113ae8ff87eebec98d16e6a3-png.jpg

I had to play against players who paid a challenger player to boost an account for them

https://i.gyazo.com/thumb/116_w/_368799c2b3a415db15fb8b5d2e6f2084-jpg.jpg (Notice the position of the summoners) https://i.gyazo.com/thumb/116_w/_c8eef6fd819262ef79bbf234d06ed384-png.jpg https://i.gyazo.com/0dbe5486a5eb63ede5fd43967b8d8ea6.png (And how the person boosting uses them on different keys with vastly superior individual skill metrics)

And yet, about 150 games after this

https://i.gyazo.com/08bea8a0a81b7efb7df3dc6f524ed733.png

I was diamond. On yet another account. Same pace as usual, always seems to take me about 150-200 games to go unranked to diamond.

So the options you have are clear, but limited:

You can sit here and whine about the bad luck.

Or you can take the bull by the horns, say "yolo", and learn to manage your bad luck by dodging poorly paired matches and always playing your best.

So, which is it gonna be mate?

Best of luck on the Rift bud.

oSEXYPLATYPUSo9/4/2016, 11:04:00 PM1 votes

hell can only exist if heaven exist. is there an elo heaven? no. therefore there is no elo hell.