IN my opinion I do not think it exists as I climbed all the way from 2000 to 3000 solo quing this season. I do get however that its hard to climb as a support as the skill ceiling can only go so high with supports. If your mercy no matter how many times you rez the junkrat or pharah that gets instantly deleted by the enemy because they tried to 1v6 theres notmuch you can do about it really. SO my thing is what I did every match I would analyze what I did wrong what I could have done better and my masters brother who was coaching me. Yes I had a little bit of an advantage cause I got coached for free by a family member. In any case
you can escape out of elo hell I started season 3 in bronze look at me now.
and I shall give proof as this is my alt account I just realized
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Just quit putting you inability to climb on something that doesn’t exist.
And try to get good at the game
That’s what I’m trying to say basically but I wanna hear others opinions on this
Elo Hell is just an excuse by players too proud to admit they suck at the game, if it really did exist, I wouldn’t of got my ult account to diamond so easily (The same rank as this account). People used that excuse on Counter-Strike as well as to why they couldn’t get out of silver ranks (the lowest ranks).
Tend to agree, it doesn’t exist, it is simply your ego’s inability to accept the fact that your rank is entirely on you.
Once you overcome this barrier you will climb. This reminds me of a story…
well d.va literally says ELO HELL so yeah…
On console i have one account around 2800 SR that i’m doing fine on, and one account at around 2200 that i absolutely cannot climb with! Team coordination is nonexistent at that rank, at least in my experience, and that seems to be the problem in most of the games. I guess thats textbook definition of ELO hell?
The term was coined based on the Elo rating system designed by Arpad Elo, which was initially used for chess games but began to be used in video games as well.[1] It was initially used by the League of Legends community, but spread in usage to other games that used the same ranking system.[4] In these games, which also include Overwatch, players are ranked based on their individual and team performance.[1]
However, the shortcomings in this system are that comparatively unskilled players, with inflated ratings, can be matched via automated matchmaking to legitimately high skilled players and drag them down when they contribute to the loss of a match.[5] At low Elo, a skilled player will likely find it easy to rise in rank, while at high Elo, the quality of players improves.[5]
However, there is a certain range where skilled players can remain stuck regardless of their personal skill, which is referred to as Elo hell.
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Elo hell is subjective. Elo hell is the rank when a player is hardstuck in . Elo hell is the rank in which you lose as much game as you win hence stagnate. It s the rank corresponding to your current average skill level. Without improving skill and game sense one cannot get out of this rank. It s quite simple really . I Dont get all the fuss about it.
Yeah ELO hell is definitely more of a “your personal hell”. I firmly believe that there are extremely few people in the whole population that are stuck at a lower rank than their “true skill” and are unable to climb. I would like to say that it doesn’t exist at all but with millions of active players I can accept that there is a handful of players with actual bad luck (like having leavers only on their team for a whole season etc.) - but over time and hundreds of games even that seems a bit unlikely.
Personally when I bought the game before Christmas it was my first PC fps for 15-20 years and I jumped straight into comp at lvl 25 - barely knowing what the objective was for each map and couldn’t hit a roadhog standing still 3 feet in front of me (think I was playing at sens 30 / 800dpi). I placed at 14xx and tanked straight down to 990 SR.
After that I started actively sorting out some of the major flaws in my gameplay and actually spent hours practicing (I know - sounds crazy) and yesterday after around 200 games I hit gold - which was my first major goal.
So if a 39 year old guy who has been playing exclusively console since like 2001 and without any raw skill or talent to start with can climb 1k SR without a single hiccup then surely anyone who can hold a mouse can do the same. My trick was to focus 100% on my own gameplay and the second I realized that people around me were doing something better than me I went to QP / custom games / practice grounds and started practicing that particular thing until I could go back into comp and do that thing better than other people in my SR.
I think Elo hell is in gold.
Youre on a highway…
I was in gold for a long time