Elo Hell Tips?

Some may say this doesn't exist. I feel this is heinously ignorant to say so as League is a team-based game. It requires cooperation and communication or you'll lose. Saying that your individual skills will account for how your team plays out is such a horrendous statement it undermines one of the main attributes Riot made league about - being with your community.

See, playing low elo games repeatedly I've come to realize that I'm not naturally a bad player. I have the skills, utilities, and thinking. However, I've found that in Bronze and Silver the issues are always the teams.

Let me clarify.

Say you have a group of Mastery Level 7 players, including yourself, on your team all with their best champions. Surely, they've been on a winning streak. Yet, their synergy is horrible. This will make their individual skills useless as they do not know how to cooperate or work as a team. We'll start off with losing a teamfight in the jungle, or your jungler fails to start ganking/taking good gank opportunities.

But you can still come back right?

See, the thing with low elo is...

...Teams are too heavy to carry unless we can drag it out to late game - which is usually impossible not because the enemy team is too skilled but they are too fed and have better synergy.

The past 3-6 games I've played without gold+ players have been horrendously bad and I lost two of my first ranked games in a row. I was saddened by how arrogant and demanding players were. They want you to conform to their way of thinking and playing. They don't want to help out if it doesn't get them a kill. They don't want to stop chasing even when pinged. They don't listen to recommendations. They don't know when to stop pushing lanes and farm. They don't know how to wave control. So many things...

And the most common positions making these mistakes are: Jungler, ADC, and Support.

Why is that the case? That's because those three positions require the most team synergy. If they screw up, the game might as well be because someone had a second Thanksgiving.

Mid and top-laners are usually at fault if they let their opponents roam which is a big issue in low elo. Nobody pings, talks, wards. It gets very screwy when bot lane gets ganked by a mid/top-laner due to failure of communication + the worries of a jungler ganking. Or they have their team push one lane unexpectedly and people decide it's a great time to just split-push at mid and top.

Bronze and Silver are not leagues to me. They are "hold your own ground and KS so you can leave this league as fast as possible". However, let's place myself in a platinum/gold/diamond match. I'm unranked but somehow I'm doing exceptionally well and carrying?

This just doesn't add up and I did my investigations. It was the teamwork and communication. The warding and the jungling. The teamfights and the positivity.

So to all you guys stuck out there in elo hell. Props to you all for sticking it out.

Please, let's teach people more about teamfighting, warding, communication, wave control, last-hitting, etc. These are things low elos often forget and are a major reason why people are stuck. Due to their teams.

However - on the bright side, here's an easy route.

Play support and pray to god your ADC doesn't make incompetent decisions - and you should be good to go if you play the role well. I find that as long as my ADC is decent, I can follow up easily - get them to survive and help them control lane/avoid deaths.

Then mid-game they hyper-carry and I get 45 assists. <3