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My thoughts on "Elo Hell!"

ray brown1213·7/15/2014, 1:24:20 AM·1 votes·825 views

Well I am a lowly Bronzie because I am not great enough to over come what I am with. However I am working on small parts of my game. But Elo Hell does exist if you are are not smart enough to find things wrong with your play so that you can improve. or if you would rather blame bad teammates when you have close the same score. It is up too you But the definition I like of Elo hell. Is being slightly better than the people around It is not greatly better like being stuck in lets say Bronze 2 and good enough to Silver 5 with your current level of play but you just seem to not to climb or just climbing one point at a time. However, I found something that has helped me improve in some points of my game is getting a notebook and writing things you could of done to change the fact that you died. A good example top feed and then missed a MIA and instead of blaming the top lanner you should write down " I need to improve my map awareness. I missed the top lanner roaming." and other things like got baited in to fight because of lack of vision is a good one. Okay with that out of the way. P.S. I am looking for a way to record my games that does not make me lag to bad so I can review them.

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hakE697/15/2014, 1:47:48 AM2 votes

Well, maybe i'm not the most indicated to reply, but i'll tell you my perspective. People tend to think that their level is superior just cause they're not as bad as the people they see in their matches. Well that's half correct, half wrong. The only way to deserve to be a Silver/Gold/whatever player, is being able to carry almost yourself to there. And, what i mean with that, is that you have to know how to win the match by yourself. You can find a lot of stuff teaching how to improve, and you can watch your replays if you want to try it by yourself (Baron Replays or LoLReplay are the programs i know).

The thing you said about not blaming others cause they didn't say the MIA, it's a really good attitude. Note pros like QTpie that say "if you lose a match, it's only your fault, don't look at your teammates, you're the only culprit". The attitude that pro players normally have is like "you're the only one that you can make improve, so, don't worry about others, just improve yourself and you will eventually get higher leagues". And note also one thing i think it's really important that Valkrin said: "Not every game it's winnable, but you have to play it like it's winnable", which is like "never surrender" but it's really important, cause if you don't play at your max, you won't improve, and even if you lose, if you learned something, it was worth.

As a side note, just like i was saying, that you have to carry by yourself, try not only to learn how to play some role, some champion, how to counterjungle, etc.. but also try to know what you can do to carry the game by yourself. Taking advantages is the most important thing in league, and the way to take them normally are objectives, and being more risky on early, less risky on late. So yeah, just keep that in mind, and TRY TO NOT FORGET WHILE LEARNING. xPeke said a week ago "we forgot some things we've learned while we were learning new things" and that's what cost them a lot of matches, try to remember all you've learned.

That's all, hope some better player could give you better tips :P

Trash Worm7/15/2014, 2:59:52 AM1 votes

I'm not even lvl 30 yet, but my friends are, and they tell me these GOLDEN words: Don't start ranked, untill you reach at lease 300 wins. I suggest you would use that advice in the next season, if it's not too late.
You can use LolReplay to record your games, and it shouldn't lag. If you want to take a step further than buy Fraps and SonyVegas Pro to record your games, while playing and talking to the mice. I hope these advices helped you. P.S. Install Fraps in the different hard drive, so the program won't lag.