''The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their own abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority.''-Dunning-Kruger Effect

I stumbled across the Dunning-Kruger effect on the internet a few days ago and i realized that it can actually apply pretty well to the
concept of ELO hell in League of Legends besides the purposes it has in real life.


First of all i agree that it is possible to lose games where you are doing great and your team just feeds and refuses to play good/trolls.But there's an equal
chance you may get win even if you are playing bad because the opposing team has one troll or just plays bad.So according to this if you ACTUALLY are good sooner or later you'll get out of elo hell.

Now the second problem is there are way too many bads that believe they are good because they watched some streams and know what the current meta is.

Most of the times they are actually the reason their team is losing because they will not play at their proper level,they will disconsider teammates because they believe they are indeed good and will just act bad/flame throughout the game.

The illusory superiority of themselves is actually the reason they are in elo hell.