Talk:Elo rating system/@comment-98.163.239.48-20120212150155

Towards the beginning of season two I was at 800 elo, after 487 games I am now 255 wins 232 losses, at 1499 ELO (many people would say I'm still in "elo hell"). While my ELO was low I constantly whined that my teammates were at fault for most losses. I grew as a player and learned to play ranked and minimize my mistakes throughout those 487 games and found myself winning more and more games the more I played. Although I thought I was witnessing ELO hell at it's worst in the 700s and 800s, it's not as though a single player can't pull themselves out of it. I suggest picking one or two characters for each role and really focus on learning them in and out. I have 102 games on Skarner and 62 games on Soraka. That said, I don't think normal games prepare a person for climbing elo as well as playing large amounts of ranked does. I think it's a completely different mentality that doesn't necessarily mesh. Many of the mistakes that ranked players make in their first games are things that you don't normally see in solo queue (not knowing common picks, bans, and counters, and issues with map awareness and warding.)

I'm sure most of this has been said before, but this is just my experience.