To everyone in 'elo hell'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Maybe it will help you, especially applies to silvers and bronzes
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As someone that was in gold last season and now placed in bronze, i can see what people are talking about being in elo hell. It truly is real. When your teams refuse to listen to your correct calls, and instead they throw the game over and over, yeah, it is frustrating, and yeah, it is elo hell.
I think the charts of how many people were in each rank will drastically change resulting in more than 50% in bronze.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Maybe it will help you, especially applies to silvers and bronzes
When I play and carry with plats and diamonds on 5s and 3s teams and we place those in plat usually and I had an average kda of 7/4/8 in placements with and against diamonds, then derank cause of one troll and 3 matches with an afk on my team and now am stuck playing with bronze players who got lucky and ranked up to mid silver but now go 0/5/0 in 5 mins in all 3 lanes if not worse then I think I have the right to call this "elo hell."
Yes I know, there is no such thing, the enemy team typically feeds and throws as often as my teammates do, but going even and constantly going up and down due to this BS won't get me anywhere until the ranks stabilize and all these idiots who were bronze last season derank back down I doubt I'll be able to carry these heavy morons all on my own.
So yeah, elo hell doesn't really exist, not really a thing, but placements this year were complete and utter sh*t and just about everyone knows it, so atm there is an "elo hell" in some semblance of the term, we just have to wait until the really bad players derank back into their "hell" so the rest of us can return and carry ourselves back out like we always have to and have done every year in placements.
I've noticed that when I judge my performance in a game I tend to think of it like "did I succeed in what I attempted to do" rather than "could I have done more." I'm working on changing this, because I think that mindset is the difference between people who believe they're in elo hell and people who climb.
As someone who worked his way up from Bronze 4 to Gold 3, Elo Hell is definitely real.
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This has been posted before but it's a good reminder.
ELO Hell does not exist, it's just an excuse for bad players to continue to make the same mistakes and blame their teams and match-ups.
Some people make the best of each situation and learn from it, others just blame everyone else for their failures.
Everyone in bronze needs to see this post
Still, one can't attribute all the complaints of an Elo hell to the Dunning–Kruger effect. The truth is that in League, to climb up the odds are stacked against you. In order to get promoted one needs to be better than the average player in his/her tier. However, that also means that one will be matched with worst players on his/her team or against better players on the enemy team because of his/her MMR. Eventually, it becomes even more and more difficult to win. But it is fair because everyone has to go through this.
Climbing up is not an easy task no matter how good you are, but that is how it is meant to be.
Always check gold income. If you're not one of the three lowest when you lost, you did fine, imo. Always think back to games that were curbstomps. Look at the statistics, look at what you built in what order. Think about what you did wrong. For example, earlier today, my map awareness was godawful, and it cost me my lane, and in the end, my game. Is it normally like this? No. If I were to put up a list of all my wins and losses, would it be close to 50/50? Probably.
Its a good thing i read that about McArthur Wheeler, i had just came upon the very same conclusion about lemon juice, but judging by the words "the mistaken belief", it does not work >:... well back to the drawing board.