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Elo Hell Isn't Real - If you are stuck in ____ rank it is your fault.

MajKaj·4/22/2018, 3:31:11 AM·8 votes·4,674 views

Hey I'm back to say the same thing I always post about! (even copy and pasted my post) Every single day I watch a youtube video or look at forums or look at anything at all on the internet that has to due with League I see people complaining about how they can't carry and how their teams are just so bad and they hold them back. Yet these same people either have 10 games played in ranked which is NOWHERE near how many games they need to show their real rank (whether it is the same, lower, or higher) or they have 900 games in b3 with a 48% winrate (more or less exaggerated, but you get the point). If you can't climb out of a specific rank, it is because you are not good enough to do so. If you were a better player than your rank you will climb. The fact that boosting is even a thing is proof that this is true, do people pay other people to be luckier on their accounts? No. They pay them to win games because they are better than them. Especially in bronze, if you are good enough literally almost every single game is winnable.

Proof: http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=3+card+deal

Added stuff based on last post: No Silver is not hard. Is it harder than bronze? I mean obviously it is. "Oh but in silver is where all the smurfs are, and and and all the new players that are in placements and I just can't win because of that!" Wow I had no idea that there were smurfs or new players in league of legends! It's almost like every game is not winnable and also almost like the games that have smurfs/brand new players are a minimal amount of the games you play.

52 Comments

UnboundHades4/22/2018, 7:01:30 PM5 votes

its sad to see people downvote this because they think elo hell is an actual thing. i went from bronze 5 to gold 1 with barely any problems solo carrying last season

Riseagainstyou4/22/2018, 6:58:38 PM4 votes

Yeah its almost like you're just spouting the same crap that everyone spouts even though well known masters pros have said they don't do unranked to challenger runs because elo hell is absolutely a thing and some games are completely unwinnable in silver, and you can absolutely tank entire runs of unranked to challenger by getting stuck in...elo hell.

Its almost like people are tired of this "hot take" from platinum players trying to act like old sages, so they just downvote and move on because talking about it clearly doesn't convince anyone. You have no experience in what you're talking about and no matter how many times people tell you that they played 10 games today all with someone with "smurf" in the title trolling their 1/15 mid laner you won't listen because you're determined to at least SOUND smart if you can't play smart enough to get into masters.

Why even make this post besides to whine about people inevitably downvoting it lol. Also is one of the tip screens when you're hard stuck Platinum 3 or below "try making a post on the forums shitting on people because you think anecdotes of your experience are everyone's experience?" Sure seems like it.

Twilit Angel4/23/2018, 1:40:28 AM3 votes

Elo hell exists. Did a duo game once and team wanted to ff at 15. Me and duo ofc didn't want to give up our LP so easily and were doing the best on the team, so the other three all just left the game. Can the highest ranking players even carry a 2 v 5 when the enemy team has so much more gold from teammates tanking their lane and feeding until they rage quit?

Unranked to challenger accounts don't even make sense. They don't start at the bottom and climb up. I heard they at least start in Gold.

Watched BunnyFuFuu play his Thresh in Bronze and even though his mechanics were godly, he lost from an afk.

Solo Q hardly makes sense half of the time. Expecting one person to 1 v 9 pretty much unless rng matchmaking pairs them with competent teammates that don't all rage quit 4 deaths in. So many issues with the ranking system.

Twilit Angel4/23/2018, 2:51:53 AM1 votes

Is it a problem to be maining adc? Are there champion specifics needed to climb out of each elo? At least say tips and not blatantly say us individuals need to improve more and that you are a better player.

Recently, I've gotten the highest I've been at S2, but win rate tanked when I was paired with people who were even remotely toxic which just made the game League of Chat, instead of playing. I try to talk as little as possible and do my best to keep cool. But that's a psychological thing there. Staying cool when someone is pissed just makes therm more pissed. It's as if they NEED to be flamed by someone. I don't. I want keys, so I know to not flame.

I've been maining Kaisa. She fits my playstyle as an adc and has outplay potential I like out of a squishy carry champion. I'm decent at most other champions, but not perfect enough to carry every game in my elo. I don't know what to do when behind especially and my team wants to non stop group against a team comp we can't fight 5 v 5. Don't even say dodge. That shows lack of skill right there. You can't carry against a certain comp, so you back out? People that dodge to preserve win rate are straight up boosted imo. I may be wrong, but that's how I view it.

Twilit Angel4/23/2018, 11:23:39 PM1 votes

No idea how accurate LoLSumo is, but most of my wins will say plat/diamond performance. I've even gotten it to say Master a few times. Some of my losses usually say Silver when the enemy team absolutely crushed us, but I get gold/plat/diamond performances even on defeat when I played the best I could. We deserve to be in this elo for not being able to 1 v 9? Makes no sense to me in a team game.

JustaNewb4/24/2018, 2:08:45 PM1 votes

Yeah, as someone who is having to grind up through silver, for the first time since Season 4, due to one of my accounts getting hacked and dumping rank? Silver is hell.

Daze Clover4/22/2018, 3:41:47 AM1 votes

dam, I know that's ur account, you do not need to lie

WangMaster900010/6/2018, 1:11:51 AM1 votes

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Hey I'm back to say the same thing I always post about! (even copy and pasted my post) Every single day I watch a youtube video or look at forums or look at anything at all on the internet that has to due with League I see people complaining about how they can't carry and how their teams are just so bad and they hold them back. Yet these same people either have 10 games played in ranked which is NOWHERE near how many games they need to show their real rank (whether it is the same, lower, or higher) or they have 900 games in b3 with a 48% winrate (more or less exaggerated, but you get the point). If you can't climb out of a specific rank, it is because you are not good enough to do so. If you were a better player than your rank you will climb. The fact that boosting is even a thing is proof that this is true, do people pay other people to be luckier on their accounts? No. They pay them to win games because they are better than them. Especially in bronze, if you are good enough literally almost every single game is winnable.

Proof: http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=3+card+deal

Added stuff based on last post: No Silver is not hard. Is it harder than bronze? I mean obviously it is. "Oh but in silver is where all the smurfs are, and and and all the new players that are in placements and I just can't win because of that!" Wow I had no idea that there were smurfs or new players in league of legends! It's almost like every game is not winnable and also almost like the games that have smurfs/brand new players are a minimal amount of the games you play.

Post a video where you carry a team like this and win. Otherwise stfu and stop trying to be a smartass.

https://imgur.com/a/wKl6XmZ#B3Bw2jS[/IMG]

MajKaj4/22/2018, 2:49:30 PM1 votes

500 people view, nobody actually responds about the post but just leave a downvote. What fantastic points you guys all made, thanks for the input! :^)

Scary Door4/23/2018, 1:53:26 AM1 votes

What an exciting and new thread, we've never seen this before!