Looking for some League of Legends Advice.

[Ferisar]

What you're describing is the opposite of elo hell, which is as fictional as as the aforementioned. Also, Reginald is easily the worst player on TSM, in my humble opinion. There is also a huge divide between ranked 5's and ranked solo queue. Both are very different mindsets, but both contribute to one another.

Elo hell exsist in a way

new people to ranked get dumped in at about 1200elo and it makes the games at that level more volatile. Long term ELO hell dose not exist but short term bad luck can exist. Most people get frustrated and call that elo hell.

It's not as bad as people clame it is but if you drop 5 games in a row due to AFK,troll or what not you tend to get frustrated. It just tends to happen more around a certain ELO hence ELO hell.

I think that's an unfortunate side-effect that just... happens. It's not really elo hell as much as it's a perception, as you said. That in it-self kind of destroys the meaning, seeing as it has no actual bearing on the game outside of say me branding 1300 elo hell because I got a couple of bad games there. I suppose it's a matter of semantics on that particular description past this point.

elo hell as described by the typical lol player does not exist though. People who are stuck at a certain elo range generally are in denial of their own position.

 

[KenuZ]

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My point is that he shouldn't be worry too much about elo, and like you said just try it out.

 

[Zyst]

When I made a smurf account, got it to level 30 I deliberately trolled-lost a lot of games and ended up in 900~ ELO, just to know if "ELO Hell" did exist, within two weeks I was up to 1554 in completely solo queue (Didn't duo queue with my usual partner to prove the point) so there is no ELO hell, and a good player can make a lot of difference, you probably just aren't quite there yet.