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Am I that bad, or are they just that good?

Genreninja·11/5/2014, 1:19:20 PM·2 votes·1,742 views

I've read SO many articles about how "Elo Hell" doesn't exist. How anyone can work their way out of it. I'm starting to doubt that this is true. I think there is a much bigger picture here that people are failing to see.

I'm watching enemy team after enemy team outplay out maneuver and dominate my teammates. And I just don't get it. Are they REALLY that good. or are we just that bad?

I'd bought into the idea that my attitude, my skill, my will, could bring me up out of the depths of a miserable Ranked Existence. And for the first 3 seasons of League I believed it worked. However this year, somethings different.

I've lost record # of games this season, despite my score, despite the objectives I push, despite the success of my lane. I feel so stuck. Every game I've played devolves into a fight about whether or not we should surrender.

And what's up with that anyway? For the last 3 seasons I've generally met a majority of people who believe in "No Surrender" in ranked (Some exceptions may apply) Partly because there's always the chance they will throw and partly because you don't want to hand anyone a win. Ever. in ranked. Wins should never be free. It devalues the ranking systems. But I guess with the increase in incentives for Ranked play in Season 4. There has been a rash of "Normals" mentality; That if you aren't being handed the win, surrender and move on. Because they're too "good" to have to work for a win. That works in Normals because it maximizes IP gain and the # of games per sit down session. But for ranked, it's not a kosher philosophy. But yet, there it is. Teams that aren't completely pwn'ing the enemy start fighting over a surrender at 20 during a completely turnable game.

I tried to be a good sport about it. But I'm genuinely at a loss. I'm beginning to REALLY dislike my experiences most days. Not because I'm losing, but because people are just bad sportsman.

16 Comments

Final GirI11/5/2014, 3:06:26 PM2 votes

Tryndamere got me to Silver. That and a lot of hysterical sobbing and me screaming "I NEED THIS!!!!!!!!" as my best friend sat next to me and watched me with fear. It was an ordeal honestly and it took a lot out of me.

ForFoxSakes11/5/2014, 4:47:46 PM2 votes

Learning to build properly and abuse the power spikes helps. looking at your match history your build order isnt the best nor your item selections

Example is like why go B and buy anything you can afford when you can plan to have a power spike in another 300 gold to win trades to further get ahead. Like when you buy early dagger, zeal and boots when you dont even have a BF sword yet as ADC. Just because you need those later on doesnt mean those items are good now or as your first items. BT is also terrible; shouldnt even be your 2nd 3rd or 4th item. Maybe 6th if you even get it.

Dont play what other people say got them to xxx level. Use what works for you - people have diff playstyles, preferences and better at certain mechanical skills for champs that need it.

Builds, map awareness, decision making and timings are the biggest things that'll rank you up to but you cant just say do this and it changes. Have to work on it. I thought there was ELO hell last season too when I first started playing in Sept and got placed in Bronze feeder/rage fest, coming from Starcraft 2 as a multiple time Master player many times over I figured I was good at that I should be pro at this but its different. Took another season to move my way up, got another acct in bronze deliberately to see if it was me - and it was. Ran with an 85%+ win rate to get out

Qwandee11/5/2014, 5:06:20 PM2 votes

because the community is bigger and elo boosting is now officially a real problem, where as 70% of league of legends players have been elo boosted at least 5 divisions, so you constantly in bronze, silver, gold, and platinum have elo boosters randomly placed between 10 people, and you have boostee's randomly placed on 10 people. While you can say the climbing elo rests on your skill... it's true but its not necessarily a fair thing to say. I have friends and myself who play a low diamond level that have trouble carrying certain lower elo games just because of how bad 1 individual person is and how obvious it is 2 people on the other team are boosting accounts in a duo. When we duo we never have a problem its like 95% winrate, occasionally we'll troll too hard in one but i mean realistically tho you can carry yourself out, but it's ignorant to say that because noone gives you a chance to get better, you're playing with either a booster or a boostee 95% of the time or maybe both and it's hard to learn when you're not really playing at your division level.... Especially gold and silver games... Gold and silver games have so many people that are just getting boosted for a platinum border that you cant even do anything about a game sometimes.

Realistically i wanna say, if you wanna carry yourself passed silver 2. You either have to be really lucky at getting the right people on your team, or you have to be a least worth of gold 1-plat5. If you actually wanna full carry yourself as singular person every game... and I mean having a skill level at least 5-7 division higher than yours is not something that you should need to carry yourself passed a certain elo. But because boosted kids get on your team some games and boosters from plat 5 (people letting their friends get them rewards) get on the other team in the same random game... It's very hard for a person of gold 5 skill level to carry someone of bronze skill level on their team while being opposed by someone of plat skill level on the other team.

Depending how lucky you are on whether you get the booster or the boosted on your team each game you queue for... You could theoretically get elo hell if you were really unlucky... or you could get boosted if you were really lucky..

Mahnigguh11/5/2014, 2:24:53 PM1 votes

So when you have a good team at low elo, play to win...chances are you will. But when your team goes trolly and you are feeling stuck, there is only one thing to do....PLAY FOOTBALL! A TD is the enemy Nexus...GO!

hh the thinker11/5/2014, 2:29:19 PM1 votes

the better you play, the easier it is to win, it's a simple fact. ranked is meant for players to improve. I enjoy it because it's more of a challenge than normal, though I enjoy normal because of their relaxing nature. if you aren't winning most (not all) of you games, then there is more for you to learn, and this is even more true the lower the rank you are.

for me, I went from bronze 3 to silver 3 in a week, and when I got to gold, I kind of stopped with ranked this season, but found it more to my level. I know I still need to improve a lot if I were ever to aim for diamond or higher.

just keep improving and enjoying.

DrNova11/8/2014, 8:41:11 AM1 votes

This late in the season the worst of the worst has been shuffled to the bottom, so your just going to get stuck with bad teams, its mostly luck on who has the least bad team/gets ahead first.

New season is starting soon.