User blog comment:Leyrann/Placement Matches - The toxic that creates the Elo Hell feeling/@comment-5266525-20121127191115

Not going to comment about ELO hell (I don't play ranked and never intend to), but just one thing:

"2) Base rating on KDA instead. Now, before you all start about kill stealing, I say, make a kill and an assist count equal, but make a death count heavier to avoid everyone rising to 2000000 Elo. If you go 15/6/20 but lose, like I did, you would at least get Elo, as you got the best score of the game."

What you're basically suggesting is to replace ELO with a form of TrueSkill. This is completely fallacious in a game where the objective is NOT just to get a ton of kills, and it just introduces abuse factors (and you can bet it'll be abused to hell and back) because winning the game doesn't just involve killing or helping to kill enemy champions.