Talk:Elo rating system/@comment-83.9.181.46-20120313141538/@comment-81.230.48.237-20120321005631

I can confirm this. I play at EUNE. When I started playing ranked I went up to 1500 pretty fast. I felt like I was the level of skill to match the competition at that ELO rating back then or even climp higher. This was season one and before the split. The servers were very unstable back then. After loosing 10 games in a row due to disconnects resulting in 4v5 or 3v5 (with the odds against my team every time), I was right back where I started. Because new players start at 1200 I get matched with total newbies. Sometimes I win sometimes I lose. It didnt seem to matter much how well I was doing for my team. Whenever I play a perfect game there would always be some lowbie in my team that feed them even more. I was getting weary of this and started crunching the numbers of about 100 ranked games. The results were shocking. About 15% of my games where started with at least one of my team mates missing. Counting only games 5v5, where neither side has any dc, my win percentage is at 64.5%. From all games my win rating is 54.4%. I play whatever role is needed but prefer top, mid or jungler. My KDA is amazing compared to all my friends about 11:3:14. My current rating is 1175. And at times Iäve been down at 900's. I'm slowly starting to climb up steadily. This is what I've learned so far: Pick whatever the team needs. Playing support makes it impossible to carry the team single handedly, and everyone wants the carries, trynda, morde or any ad or ap carry. Even if you have first pick they will insta lock whatever they say they want resulting in bad team composition and a loss. Always try to take command of your team. Give pointers, communicate and try to be as clear as possible without being rude. Since most ppl seem unable to find the location of the mini map. Ping! A lot! In EUNE communication is somtimes a problem because many russians simply do not know any english at all or simply fail to input latin characters from thier localized keyboards. I'm also playing ranked games on the EUW server, while comparing the two - EUW is significantly better, especially with communication and non-afk players.