#2 An easy win

We had zilean and lux instant lock. Zilean had flash and CV so I thought we'd have a support but they both ended up going full ap. Then we had ashe and rumble. We had 3 ap, 1 ranged ad. We were clearly lacking a tank and a jungler. Since the other team already had warwick I decided to pick Olaf and go full tank.

Ashe called solo top against alistar. We were a bit worried about that, even more because she picked dorans blade. It ended up quite well. Actually the game was quite easy. We were winning on all lanes. Both on cs and kills. No one on our team died for a while. Warwick tried to counter jungle me. He ganked me when I was doing red. I managed to run to some bushes and Lux came to help. Then he run but eventually we caught him with some help from ashe. I did a few successful ganks and got a few kills. So everything was going great.

When the teamfights started we won them all. We were more fed than they were. Only I died during the entire game. So I guess I did well as a tank.  The other team didn't have a tank, they had 2 supports and they were overall bad. Easy game.

#1 Hard win

We had no jungler and since I was 4th/5th pick I had to pick one. It was a bit risky because Cho'gath only said he was building tank after our picking time run out. Our team didn't look bad, except for cho'gath summoner spells maybe.

My concerns were right. Cho'gath died early (solo top vs irelia) and was quite underfarmed. He had like 13 cs when I, the jungler, had like 60-70. Then things got worse. Shaco (ap) camped on my blue with tons of boxes, which I didn't expect, so I died too. Then I managed to gank bot and we got 2 kills. Then it got even worse,  Cho'gath disconnected. We played 4v5 for some time and I had to tank which ruined a bit my game. Had to stop jungling and since I didn't have tank items, except for the merc treads, I died a few times as their team was just melting me. They were pushing hard, we lost many towers and they managed to destroy our mid inib. This were looking bad. But then Cho'gath came back. We managed to win a couple of team fights (even if he was stacking armor, when 4 out of 5 of the enemy team players were ap), we pushed hard, got their mid inib, we did baron. Then we pushed again and won another team fight and won the game.

Overall it was a quite hard game, since our tank was underfarmed and feeding, then he even DC'ed and we had to play 4v5 for long without a tank. Also our kennen was quite bad. Underfarmed and fed too much. Our luck, was that the enemy team wasn't that good so we managed to hold till our tank came back and we managed to win, even if he had the wrong items.

The beginning

I've decided to start this blog to share my experience of getting out of elo hell. Until a few days ago I was on a team, so I didn't really care about solo queue. But, unfortunately, it disbanded and since it seems everyteam requires people who want to join to have a decent elo, I decided to increase mine.
I was confident because I knew I was good enough to get to about 1600. However this has been the hardest and most frustrating experience I've been through since I've started playing on-line games, 8 years ago.
Elo Hell does exist. And to get out of it, you need, most of all, luck.Which is something I don't have.
On this blog I'll share most of my ranked games, I'll comment them and I'll try to give a few tips and advices of how to get out of elo hell, things I'll learn during this journey

Hope you enjoy it and participate!