League of Legends thread

Hmm, I'm not sure if ELO hell really exists. Plenty of times I've had leavers or noobs on my time, but l more times they are on the enemy team: I just don't take note of it as much. I think you're more likely to remember the times you got screwed over than the times you benefited from such things.

The way I think of it...there are 5 slots on the enemy team for a leaver/noob, and only four slots on my team. So in the long run, if I don't leave/be a noob, I'll climb ELO (which I am doing )

e: I'm currently 1279 ELO, won 122 ranked games and lost 112. Averages: kills 6.0, deaths 5.5, assists 8.9, 125 minion kills. (with Caitlin and Orianna, my two mains, my minion kills are 185 and 172 respectively)

you're right. but there was a guide on solomid I think somewhere, saying to genuinely climb out of elo hell you have to be around 400/500 above where you're at to "carry" a game where you have a spaz, which is lets say 50:50 (some games they have one, some games you do). Now, if you've played 200 games and are actually at 1200 elo, then you are probably meant to be around there, and are actaully around 1000-1400 elo (it goes either way). If you're 1700 elo, you will climb out of the elo hell bracket where you no longer have prawns who lock in as AP ashe or something. I mean, some of it >IS< my fault for inviting friends into ranked games who don't have runes at all etc or experience. But even still, it's annoying.

I think I will climb out of it, as I only just got "good" - I got coached of a mate who was platinum in beta and has just started again. He is also 2.6k in WoW arena, so a pretty good gamer all around.

You don't have to carry every game, as long as you win more than 50% of your games you will climb. You can play a support, a tank, anything...you don't have to carry every time.

Why don't you play some ranked games tonight, as solo, and see how you get on? If you're meant to be 1350 surely you will climb out of the 1k region...

Did you say you're going to duo queue with him? Duo queuing is definitely a good way to get carried to high ELO, if you are the lower ELO guy

That's what I intend to do I've only played 3 (the ones you can see in that pic, and I think my KDA is probably over 20:1) since he coached me. Before then I was just playing normals with him. It's funny, he has no masteries/runes, yet yesterday he beat a 1500 elo player in mid (stalked his/her profile after the game) because he was whining about his team even though he himself failed and my mate was level 12. Lmao.

well he wants to queue with me for season 2, yeah. He is on triple xp/ip atm so he can get runes/levels quick!

My friend is too, but he doesn't know how he got the xp boost, do you?

http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=132051

This should help you

Also if you're 1830 give me some tips sometime please? I'm about 1280 at the moment, been playing for quite a while, i think I'm just missing one or two obivous things to help me improve a bit. If you have a spare hour or so sometime we could play some games and you could give me some tips? (they can be normals so you don't risk your ELO if you like )

my friend tells me about this game NON STOP! How good is it really?

hehe, i'd love to as soon as i figure out how to get the game working. i play in EU West, and will hopefully have the game running in a week at the latest.

Hey everyone!! add me!! :P
IGN : DyingDream
i've just about reached 1600 games
elo: 1140(Elo hell wont let me go..)
Champions i can play: Blitz Jax Orianna Lux cait taric soraka kennen Riven wukong jarvan and ezreal

Any progress getting it working?

yeppers, she's up and running. i'm eu west btw.

username: apotheosis

one game till i've got my silver badge for season 2! 1376 atm, aiming for 1500 tonight (1400 is the silver badge) Told you to watch the livestreams!


edit: 1415 now, woop!


second edit: 1502. And here I stop for tonight (1520 is gold badge though!)


No more elo hell for me!

Nice job! I think gold is the top 3% of players, if you can stay there you know you are one of the top few players - well done!

I'm glad you got it working, I'll add you (I'm Smilerrr). It would be fun to play a few games (just normals) sometime, it would be awesome to get some tips off you - with your high ELO there are probably some things which are obvious to you but I just don't appreciate.

e: What was your ELO at the end of season 1 by the way?