User blog comment:TheTobarMethod/I Wanna Find More Gaps In My Playing/@comment-4238275-20130206175353/@comment-4131177-20130206190555

The guys that are set up by this sentence have a point.

To advance in Elo, you need to know how to carry.

I cant teach you, because i cant do that myself. But a RL-Buddy of mine (Gold elo in S2, staying there with ease) showed me a few life matches. He carried with everything, hell, he even carried with a support taric. He said: "when you loose a game, it is always your fault. No matter how bad the others are. Because you have to compensate for each other's weaknesses, and when you can not do that then you do not deserve higher elo. Learn to carry and you advance"

I am still learning how that works. He showed me what carrying really means (the term is so overused that the true meaning is lost among most parts of the community), and i realized that i might have "won" many lanes and games, but actually "carrying" is something that does not even happen every game, and that i really (!) carried only 9 or 10 times in my entire LOL career.

TLDR: you need to learn how to carry. Not how to carry like the term that everyone overuses, but to carry like "play perfect and lead your team to victory".