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Experienced player provides proof of Elo Hell.

Elven Rope·1/27/2015, 12:13:44 AM·3 votes·895 views

So I will preface this by saying, I am currently gold 1 on one of my accounts. I've mained every role, but I excel at support / adc. Last season I got 3 separate accounts all to gold 5, all the way from bronze 5. So I have seen it all.

Having saying all of this. This is what I need to say.

Elo Hell is real. It is in EVERY rank / tier within this game. It doesn't matter if you're bronze 5, silver 5, gold 5, plat 5, dia 5, or god tiers.

It has nothing to do with a certain tier or rank.

No matter if you get boosted, buy a high tier account, or do it the old fashioned way like myself, you will get the same nonsense in the same amount of games regardless how good you are.

What it really comes down to, is if you're good enough to carry, it may really only be possible if your teammates GO EVEN in lane. They don't have to win, but as long as they don't feed, you should be able to carry the game. If you get LUCKY enough to not get qued with afk's and people who go 0/12/0 by 20 minutes and rage quitting, you can carry.

Unfortunately, as far as it goes for me. I have played probably around 1k ranked games in divisions from bronze 5 all the way to low plat; it never ends.

So if you are bothered by this fact, stop playing now. Getting out of ELO HELL is impossible because it is omnipresent.

Trundle

11 Comments

DJ Siamak1/27/2015, 12:29:13 AM4 votes

"experienced" "gold"

pick one

Embertine1/27/2015, 12:56:13 AM1 votes

If there is one thing I've learned about the boards, it's that people hate when another player tries to explain something about the game to them. Most often they react aggressively or try to make you seem like you don't know anything about what you are talking about.

balbraaksel1/27/2015, 1:04:53 AM1 votes

You basically say that players are sometimes so inconsistent in their performance that you alone can't make the difference anymore. But that doesn't apply to all matches, so if you play 100 matches, 50 of those are determined by your teammates, then you still could've carried the other 50 matches. (=example) Unless you want to imply this happens extremely frequently?

Serenity Now1/27/2015, 1:30:23 AM1 votes

I leveled a few accounts as well.

And while I agree there are problems at every rank, I have to say it is worse in Bronze compared to Plat. Mainly it is because you can't help but get frustrated by repeated bad calls and plays by your teammates, and it just happens more often at lower ranks.

MPendragon1/27/2015, 1:34:42 AM1 votes

Every 5th division is ELO Hell.

You get people who think that division is as high as they can get, so they stop trying to win.

The Queen Viper1/27/2015, 1:40:36 AM1 votes

"Elo hell" doesn't exist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ4vPCY11eM