User blog comment:Texas Snyper/Elo Hell and You: Part 2 - Skills That Pay the Bills/@comment-24.246.41.206-20110915160018

I've been seeing the truth of this guide recently myself. I've played about 650 unranked games and finally felt that I was comfortable enough in my general skills to move over into ranked play. Upon getting there it became quickly apparent that a lot of the people around didn't take as much time in gathering game experience before moving into ranked and didn't synergize as well as I am used to seeing when going solo unranked. I've since found that making a contribution with Tanks and Supports is a fair bit harder than I am used to since there are fewer people who understand what I am doing and why. Low Elo matches definitly aren't always the place for a particular build. Especially when it comes to toothless supports, which can be valuable, but requires team mates to know what your there for and what you capability let's them do and lack of capability means they can't do.

As a bit of advice for those who have found themselves in Elo hell, or really for any LoL match in general, I've found that the best played matches for me have been ones where a good amount of conversation starts up early. Start talking to team mates as soon as you get in and once in game be sure to keep it up when its safe. A quick "nj" when you see a team mate getting a kill and generally trying to get everyone on the same positive is perhaps the biggest thing for a well played team. The teams morale means more in LoL than one might think and I've seen a team I'm on come back and win many times from being down on account of keeping a good attitude while the enemy slowly unravelled into bickering and lost there ability to move as a team. A team of medicore but cooperative and cheerful players are better than skilled but stubborn and abrasive players in a game with so much emphasis on the team.

I'm currently sitting on 7W - 4L and an Elo of 1333. So I'm not the most experienced ranked player in the world. But so far this has been my findings and I am optimistic about my ability to climb fairly smoothly out of the Elo hell environment/mindset.