User blog comment:Leyrann/How can I make my Elo rise faster?/@comment-5791947-20130104025453

Here's my suggestion: Don't try hard to carry.

If you can't carry, and someone else in your team is fed, do your absolute best to support the fed player as much as possible, while doing your own role as best as possible. Trying hard to be more fed than the person carrying in your team, being the mage, the carry, or the jungler, will only backfire.

A problem with players is that they always think "I kill more than you, so I'm better" or "I have 20 more cs than you, so I'm better" when in reality, correct teamfights is all that matters, the items only to aid you and the enemy items to hinder you. You can die and feed every single time in the teamfight, but if your team still wins like 1 for 3 or 1 for 4 overall, you're doing your job, and you're doing it as good as your teammates, because the enemy is focusing the weakest of the rest of your fed team.