"The Elo system affects a player's rating by individual circumstances, so even if you are playing the same exact ranked games with friends, your scores will never be the same. Factors that may affect your Elo can vary, which includes stats such as your team's Elo, the opposing team's Elo, etc. Additionally, if you are playing a tougher opponent then you will take a bigger risk for your Elo gain or loss. We know that losing a lot of Elo may be scary at times but rest assured that your Elo will even out as you play more games "

Still not convinced?

"Short term I think variance and deceive people and make them believe that they can't win at the game, often times this leads to them playing poorly because they don't think they can do anything to win. A lot of people in this so-called "elo hell" also blame everyone for everything and don't look at their own mistakes and through that they can't really improve upon what they need to. Long term variance lessens and you go up if you're good enough."

Ranked games in League of Legends are based off a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in games, called the Elo rating system. This system is named after its creator, Arpad Elo. While the Elo system was originally created for use as an improved chess rating system, today it is used in many other games such as American college football, basketball and baseball. It has also been adapted to many multiplayer video games, including League of Legends. Once a summoner hits level 30, they are allowed to play ranked games. All summoners start off with an Elo rating of 1200. Gains and losses are increased during the first ten games, and after that rating changes more slowly as summoners reach their true rating.However, a lot of people find themselves stuck in a specific Elo bracket and blame their teammates for not being able to get out of it. This is also known as "Elo hell". Many people argue that they shouldn’t be in at a certain rating, and that their actual rating should be much higher than it currently is. In psychology, this is known as the Dunning-Kruger effect.The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. Basically, this means that a person is overestimating their skill and believes that they have no fault for a loss. Kruger and Dunning concluded that “the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others.” Their conclusions predict that the highly competent individuals adjust their play based on the error of their teammates, but the incompetent ones only think about themselves and don't make any adjustments, for better or worse.Many people argue that the Elo system is broken and it does not reflect their true skill. Instead of blaming it on teammates and the system, it’s time to blame yourself. The cold hard truth is that there is no speficic "Elo hell" bracket. The only place Elo hell exists is in one's own head. The Elo system is designed to match summoners of the same skill level. Summoners that persistently win will rise in the rankings, and players that persistently lose will go down. Eventually, everyone will reach the appropriate Elo rating.One of Riot Games Player Support Specialists had this to say on the topic:League of Legend's Elo system is not exactly broken and although we don't know the exact algorithms in place, personal frustrations are no valid grounds for telling off a very complicated mechanism.Cruzerthebruzer, a very high rated player, has done an experiment where he attemped to climb up the Elo ladder from a rating of 200 all the way to 2000. His opinion on Elo hell wasIt took Cruzerthebruzer 323 games to get from a rating of 276 to 1908. As for the difficulty? “It wasn't difficult, there were some sprees where I just had leavers, feeders, and/or DCs one after another and that was frustrating but just gotta hit the play again button at the end.” Cruzerthebruzer, is a perfect example of being able to climb the Elo system regardless of your current Elo.All in all, everybody can improve themselves as a player no matter who you are. It all comes down to dedication and perseverance.