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Ello hell exists and I need to get out so I call for help.

Legostrike·10/4/2014, 8:49:42 PM·1 votes·538 views

I just said Elo hell exists, yes, but it's not what you think it is. Elo hell is not the place of unskilled players (that's generally fine in a game), elo hell is the place of team infighting. Where everyone yells at everyone. All the time, every game, no exceptions.

I'm in Bronze II, and I main support. Blizzcrank, Sona, doesn't matter, I chose what works best with my ADC. Every game goes pretty much the same. We go bot, maybe leash depending on side, start farming, I poke and try to get my ADC kills. Then the end begins, typically five-ten minutes in. Lanes start losing, my adc overextends and dies, top gets ganked and dies, mid fails and recalls. In my mind, all that is fine. Regather and fight for victory, we win. But the opposite happens. Typically it's two people, sometimes more, but it's inevitable. Blaming, fighting, insults. I mute anything aimed at me (" you suck blizzcrank you missed that pull" type of crap), but I still see the fighting. I tell my team "Comon, let's pull together and fight. We CAN win this." but i'm ignored, and we lose. See, every team I've been on has had the innate potential to win. Sometimes we chose to work together and win. Most times we don't, and when we don't we lose. Invariably. I make the proposition that Elo Hell is not the place where your skill is miles higher above everyone elses but your team feeds and drags you down, Elo Hell is the absence of teamwork, the lack of positivity, the unwillingness to take responsibility.

Please, tell me, how do I prevent this? How do I pull my team together to get them to fight?

4 Comments

redniwediS10/4/2014, 8:57:45 PM3 votes

Elo Hell is a place where you trap yourself. It is a mindset that keeps you from playing at your best and recognizing how to work your strengths to cover your team's weaknesses. It is a wall with a large opening on either side, yet so many people simply stare angrily at the wall and refuse to look around.

If your team won't listen to you it is up to you to listen to your team. Do your best to cover the holes in their plans, and do your absolute best to not leave base without buying at least one ward. If you cannot learn to recognize the part you play in every defeat you will never improve.

Everyone makes mistakes, and until you consistently have perfect performances you should use your time focusing on your own faults and not how bad your team is. You are the only factor in each of your games that you can control, and so it is all on you to improve. Until you recognize this fact you will never truly be free from Elo Hell.

Direwolfiez10/4/2014, 9:43:31 PM1 votes

Try duo-queuing with friends that are in higher elos than you. That way you'll theoretically be matched with better teammates, and you'll get the chance to play against people of a higher skill level.

Other than that, I dunno. Bronze is pretty bad in terms of a skill floor. I've played with people that literally had no business playing ranked games; they lacked basic understanding of the game and even of the most simple mechanics.

RowGo10/5/2014, 10:00:15 PM1 votes

elo hell = solo que

Ashe Mankey10/5/2014, 10:03:29 PM1 votes

Team infighting happens at every level. Everyone has an ego and toxic players try to bruise and invoke responses in other players which ruin games putting players on tilt. Best thing is if someone is like this. Take 2 comments to reason with them. And knuckle down to play well. A bit of positivity helps but when you take it upon your self to make plays you will win more games.