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A brief description of Elo Hell, and why it Exists

Revenix·7/14/2015, 7:16:05 AM·3 votes·958 views

There are many people out there who say elo hell is not a real thing and that you deserve to be at the elo you are currently in. I'm not saying that all these bronze v's who say "I SHOULD BE GOLD" are right, not at all, but it really does exist. Lets say Billy is Bronze 1, He frequently plays with his high silver/low gold friends so he has a good sense of knowledge on the game, knows how to ward, and has decent mechanics, just not quite as good as his friends. So Billy's real skill level is around silver 3. This is where the definition of elo hell enters. "An elo where you're better than your teammates and opponents but not by a large enough margin to carry." I myself repeated my series from bronze 1 to silver 5, 9 times this season, and 7 times last season. Don't really know where I'm going with this thread, but there are two points I am trying to get across.

If you're a silver 3 and are going to call a bronze 1 a bronzie, he can probably still hold lane against you.

Rito, please fix the elo system so SOLO que rankings are really affected by SOLO efforts, and not the 1/10 Ap tryndamere on your team.

15 Comments

Eleshakai7/14/2015, 4:59:16 PM3 votes

ELO Hell is the mindset that you deserve to be higher than you are but are being held back by external forces. It leads to you stagnating because you stop trying to improve because you feel like something ELSE is keeping you from rising as opposed to a need to improve.

It's all in your mind. 100% mental. Not a 'real' thing. But the mindset is common enough that it might as well exist.

Zombiemaster7/14/2015, 8:31:18 PM3 votes

I don't think that anyone who says "why isn't your SOLO queue ranking based on your SOLO efforts" really understands what that will actually do to solo queue, and how drastically it would change how the game is played.

Jubbinaut7/14/2015, 7:20:19 AM3 votes

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Lets say Billy is Bronze 1, He frequently plays with his high silver/low gold friends so he has a good sense of knowledge on the game, knows how to ward, and has decent mechanics, just not quite as good as his friends. So Billy's real skill level is around silver 3. This is where the definition of elo hell enters. "An elo where you're better than your teammates and opponents but not by a large enough margin to carry."

Even in this example, Billy will tend to win more games than he loses, thus improving his MMR. He may well bounce off the promo wall for a while, but eventually - if he's genuinely better than the rank he's at - he'll inevitably move up.

DeynaTaggerung7/14/2015, 8:20:52 PM2 votes

I am currently in silver 5. I have worked my way out of bronze 1 twice (right before the end of last season and at the beginning of this one). My matches have 90% of the people in them from S5 (using LSI as reference) and I'd say if I'm better than my opponents it's not by that big of a margin. I'd say I deserve S4, maybe S3 (and I'm hanging around promos trying to get up) if I played more.

I swear it's mental, keep trying to get better, I believe in you

WukongMain7/14/2015, 7:49:30 AM1 votes

1/10 AP tryndamere? dude ap tryndamere is a boss. hes spin scales with it harder than people expect, and get chunked pretty hard. meanwhile he eats cooldowns, ulting and running away, ultimately pressing heal to heal for nearly hes entire HP and rejoining the fight.

DO NOT DIS AP TRYNDAMERE.

The12thman947/14/2015, 7:26:41 AM1 votes

This is my problem. I'm good enough to win a majority of my games, but I can't climb because I have to overcome trolls and afks, etc. Im just not good enough to solo carry games with trolls and afks

Genuwhine7/14/2015, 7:17:20 AM1 votes

do elo boosters exist? yes. So does elo hell exist? no.