User blog comment:Leyrann/Placement Matches - The toxic that creates the Elo Hell feeling/@comment-4131177-20121127163934

Though (as you might have recognized due to my post in another of your blogs) i totally agree about the existence of Elo-Hell, and though i believe that there are many people basically stuck in an elo-range that doesnt belong to them, i have to disagree with this post as a whole (i agree to single arguments, but not the post as a whole).

I do not know how the games run, but according to your stats, you are NOT an example for those people stuck in "elo hell". No matter how bad a game runs, you should never have more than 3 deaths, and if you know about positioning and know about proper warding all game long (1400+ Elo Knowledge) then you usually do not die more than 3-4 times.seeing that you have 7-8 deaths in some games (double of what a 1400+ elo guy should have), maybe (no offense, no fucking offense) you do not belong into a higher elo yet. Positioning is basically another term for "contributing to your team performance without dieing". This includes leaving a teamfight, or not starting one at all, when your chances of winning are low, and also not even starting a teamfight when you know that you can not disengage if the tides turn, as well as constant warding (all team) instead of facechecking. Watch a replay of yourself, just do it once, and then see how many times you are out of position. I am sure you will be extremely surprised how many mistakes you do on your own.

When you actually belong into a significantly higher elo than 1000, you also know "how to carry". A bud of mine (who plays in gold ELO, the one who showed me the game, he plays marvellous, he makes "ARAR" teams with buddies, which stands for All Ranked All Random, against non-random teams of course, and still makes the teams get to silver elo with ease) showed me all of his placement matches in season two, live, where he carried his entire team several times, even as a taric support. He told me "whenever you do not carry your team, no matter what champ you are or what role you are, then you do not know how to carry. Carrying is about making less mistakes, and when you were not able to carry than you did too many mistakes, and then you belong into an elo where people make as many mistakes as you". He trolls me a lot, but i believe him there.

I do not at all understand how he did that, and why he won those games that i always thought were lost after 20 minutes, but well, maybe that is the reason why my elo is so low.