Talk:Elo rating system/@comment-4739697-20120107102725/@comment-3358335-20120110051222

I don't believe in Elo Hell. So I don't think there is any reason to be in it. If you are better than your Elo then it will go up as you continually perform well. You are guaranteed to take some loses while making that climb.

However a vast majority of the players are where they should be. They may understand how to play better, they may do all the right things individually, but a big part of climbing the ladder is figuring out what your team needs and providing it. Even bad teams. In fact, it is a lot easier with bad teams since it gives you a lot of options to pick. A great example would be why Tryndamere performs well at low Elo. He just has to wait for one of his stupid teammates to be out of position and eat the stuns, exhausts, and ignites, then he rolls in and kills whoever was attacking his teammate (usually after his teammate has died a gruesome death.) However that is what the team needs at that level. At higher Elo's that strategy fails completely. Everyone needs to be in the fights from start to finish. So those face roll Trynds and Akali's that think they are so awesome because they clean up after a fight, completely fail as they climb up the ranking and their job had become obsolete.Ironically they blame their team.