User blog comment:Leyrann/Elo rating doesn't work & Elo Hell exists/@comment-76.84.51.37-20121112043223

Solo elo is flawed, especially at lower levels where every team member doesn't play as a part of a team (therefore you are left trying to play something you can "carry" with, as many players don't understand the roles in this game and things like "peeling", and this game isn't like others such as DOTA where you can carry no matter what "champion" you pick for the most part). Ranked with a team of 5 is a totally different matter....

You can't control your teammates in solo Q, nor can you chose who you get. This is a team game where the outcome is heavily based on YOUR ENTIRE TEAM rather than an individual, and you are semi-responsible for your organized 5s team. In chess you are 100% responsible for the outcome of the match. Now all of these three use elo, which one doesn't make sense to use elo? Really, my vote is to remove solo Q elo alltogether. It doesn't matter beside e-peen rights anyway. Solo Q isn't used to participate in tournies or anything of that nature. The people I see "openly brag" about elo too are people who just got lucky and won their first few matches "placing" them in high elo (like only 20 games played). What is great is when they openly admit (or prove by logging onto a different account with higher elo to berate you as a worse player than them) to having multiple accounts. Just shows how stupid the system is altogether. Another point I hear about is how solo Q elo is used to match you with same skill level opponents, well normal matches can do the same thing right? >_>