User blog comment:Texas Snyper/Elo Hell and You: Part 1 - The Impassable Barrier/@comment-203.206.4.104-20110907025344

mostly good points here, but still little consideration to the simple random factor. . .there is always an off chance that no matter what rating your at, you will get a complete muppet ( or two ) in your team , maybe they are vastly overachiveing and have been lucky to be carried far higher then they deserve ect. however no matter how good a LOL player you are, at any one point there is only so much one person can do to influence a game. for example, i was mid lane as annie , in the same time it took me to be 6/0 vs the other teams ezreal and killing their jungle olaf everytime he tried to gank , our bot lane had gone and lost the game completely , even with me giving them the occasional gank to try and help. our mordekaiser had gone 1/9 in a 2v2 lane, and had rush built a force of nature , vs a xin and rammus. and our miss fortune in lane with him hadnt done much better. in otherwords in order for me to have made up for bot lane i would have needed probably double the ammount of kills id gotten already, which isnt really possible. its things like this that keep people down. you cant stop teammates from overextending, or choosing stupid champ lane combinations or builds , you can completley dominate your lane , warding lanes , giving map support ect , push your tower and perhaps be carrying very well , but you still need a team of competent people no matter how good you are , a team that can manage to do all the basic things , like not running off solo in the other teams jungle when their whole team is mia , or chasing one low hp champ deep into enemy territory ect. you could take the very highest ranked player from LOL, and put them into a 800 rank team with a couple idiots and as long as all the people on the other team were reasonable with roughly the same 800 elo then the average team would probably win , regardless of the imput from the superstar on the muppet team.