User blog comment:Texas Snyper/Elo Hell and You: Part 1 - The Impassable Barrier/@comment-3014924-20110901130418

There are a few points I do not agree with. There IS a gap in competency in this game. I'm a Joe Average. My ELO sails at 1100 tough I'm improving slowly. But I got friends at diverse ELO level. And when I pair with my lower level friends, it's, well, difficult to adapt. I take an exemple:

I played with a 600 ELO friend. I hence picked first, and, as I am highest ELO (with a real difference), went on the Ranged carry spot. My friend filled the tank spot. The guys we faced were bad and really, when our tank initiated correctly, we made it an ace. But I just failed leading them. No matter how many "Please, wait for the tank to initiate" I wrote, they kept engaging 3 vs 5, 2 vs 4, and died. Then blamed the tank for not beeing there. I just was amazed how dumb that sounded.

It was frustrating because it should have been a win. Would we have paired together more games, we would have won and lose at 50/50 ratio probably, but, really, that was too frustrating. It kinda was that ELO Hell feeling.

I imagine life for my friend. He sucks. Seriously, 600 is his ELO. But he know some basic stuff about the game, like tank HAS to initiate. I can understand that, due to his knowledge of the game, such games are very frustrating.

And about skill, I've seen things I'd never imaginate before. I'm mad at myself when I fail an escape flash over a wall, when my skillshot goes wrong, when my "perfectly timed" fiddle's ulti end up by dealing tons of damage at minions... But now, I've seen another friend (playing at my home), I blame myself less. He's 30. Fights in lane. I say: "go attack, now!". He attacks. I yell "yes yes Ignite ignite". He looks at the keybord (1 sec). Hit "F". Looks back at screen. Moves mouse to opponent. click (full time 2 secs, 2 secs a half).

Gwahhhhh was that serious? O_o