Okay so this is just like the definition not if it exist or not.
Bronze-gold is the rank here theoretically the players are so bad and just fundamentally don’t understand the game that this is “Said” to limit both you (and the enemy team). Getting stuck in plat isn’t elo hell nor diamond nor masters the reason the game throws most smurfs in plat because it already recognizes something is off and strange about this person and they know what there doing.
Your trapped by your fellow “Elo hell” Bronze silver and gold level teammates these players are prosed as being so “Bad” (I am NOT insulting anyone Im not trying to I can’t think of a better word I am sorry).
Your making a combination of fundemental game losing freaking you might as well just be a spectator mistakes, you just don’t like understand “Overwatch” like at all tbh outside of stats.
When people say I could escape “Elo hell” in freaking release date Lifeweaver… That’s not a joke btw there not being egotistical or anything really, this is just my experience I don’t wanna come off as if anything Im saying is just this absolute unchallangable fact.
But yeah elo hell is the low metal ranks where theoretically anyone with just the regular base level of understanding of the game that is overwatch could escape from regardless of outside influences, excluding ya know cheaters which are a category all there own.
If you put aaaaaa I wanna say plat 4 in “Elo hell” lobbies on any hero there really good at and after they’ve found like there “Thing” for example mines is shot calling, for some its game sense mechanics etc, thaaat person would be considered “Smurfing” and ruining games while they climbed back to where they should be… Even tho there just ya know playing the game how someone of there caliber normally would regardless.
The players in “Elo hell” are considered just spectators by those in high ranks weather it’s your tean the enemy team whoever as soon as you make yourself “not a spectator” you win.
Like for example when I was watching one of my friends right they were doing what all the other silvers around them were doing getting off the cart when they needed to be on chasing stats when they didn’t need to etc. It’s almost like the literal nano second they became aware of themselves and weren’t just going through the motions everyone else in her games was doing they shot up almost instantly.
This is just my definition this has just been how I’ve always understood it I’m not claiming any ultimates please feel free to respectfully challenge my notions if you feel you should do so.