Does anyone talk about the mythical ELO Hell anymore?
I know this is gonna get downvoted by people who were lucky enough to have the morons on the enemy team when they were still in silver, so I'm just gonna vent out my sorrows and let it happen.
I literally just spent an entire game trying to farm as ADC. #Story time, skip this part if you want In champ select, I ask for a disengage support like Thresh or Janna, because the enemy team is full of divers and pushers like Warwick, Garen and Blitz. My support chooses Braum and doesn't talk the entire game. One minute in, my Braum support walks in and dies for no reason. Five minutes in, Braum and Katarina tower-dive them while their minions were pushed the fuck up, and they both just inted on the spot. Ten minutes in, Braum roams to mid and starts a teamfight in the river somehow while I'm still farming bot, and by the time I run to the river, Braum, Kat and Zac all immediately died. Fifteen minutes in, their Twitch is 7/0, and I didn't feed him one single time. Now he has more items than me, and now I can't possibly kill him in the first place. I beg my team to please just farm, but Katarina starts flaming me for "being useless," and Braum starts stealing my CS with his abilities while still not talking. Every teamfight that I was involved in entailed me trying my hardest to stay in the back to not get focused. Since Twitch is fed as fuck, I'm not allowed to farm freely, since he can use his stealth and 3-shot crit me to death. In teamfights, Zac ults their Warwick right on top of me every single time, Braum walks in a straight line, forgets to use his shield and dies every single time, Kat goes in, ults and dies without killing anyone every single time, and Darius just,,, does the same as Braum. Twenty-five minutes in, they're all fed as fuck, and we can't do anything. They keep going in and dying anyways, and since the game is over, I decide to try being more aggressive to help them out. Their Garen just walks up to me in a straight line because my support is a brain-dead Braum, and Garen one-shots me, since he has items and I don't. And then we finally lost. TL;DR: My team wouldn't stop feeding because they were desperate for a "comeback."
I heard that in the higher ELO's, people don't dive in and feed relentlessly, because they understand how much gold they get if you die. I do everything I can to be like the people in the higher ELO's, and I do it well, but then I get absolute buffoons like this in 49% of my games. It's uncanny to think that after all the games it took to get one's account to level 30, they can still manage to not even try to do well in the game. Sure, everyone has bad games, but the Silver Mentality of going all in, even when you can't win, haunts the people who are trying really, really hard to think differently and climb out of it.