Talk:Elo rating system/@comment-76.232.205.216-20110714042000/@comment-3358335-20110729175454

^Anon, you are incorrect. Hell is a dark evil place that you cannot escape. Elo Hell is a dark evil place that you get stuck in and can't escape because your teammates are terrible/leavers/feeders or all three.

While I won't get into the Theological about whether or not Hell exists. Elo Hell does not exist in the "I have fallen and can't get up" sense. 'Low' Elo most certainly exists nobody can deny that because in order to have High Elo you are required to have Low Elo even if the only reason is to make a relative to those that are High. If you have low Elo you are more likely to be teamed up with people with low Elo. But it also means that you are just as likely to be teamed up against people with low Elo. More so, in fact, as you, yourself, can be ruled out (if you deserve to be.) This means that if you are in this "place Ido not belong" that you should make the difference on your team, because the 4 scrubs on your team should be no worse than the 5 scrubs on the other team.

Now, to finally address the very often stated, and incredibly circumstantial "I've had 7 games in a row where my team sucked/fed or both and you can't tell me that's my fault." (Well It actually might be, check From the Crown of Thorn: Today is a Good Day to Die). . but I digress, that has nothing to do with Elo Hell or not. That is either just a bad game, bad team, bad team comp, stupidity, or poor matchmaking. But not to be confused with Elo Hell because remember, low Elo swings on both sides of the river.