Originally Posted by
Oracle
ELO is a rating system designed to evaluate and give an accurate measurement of a person's skill in a given game. It's normally used within chess, although a modified version is in use for LoL. Given that LoL is a team game, there's some small modifications here and there to compensate for other players' influence. There's a hidden normal ELO, and then there's the ranked ELO which everyone normally complains about.
Elo is based on wins and losses, how well you do doesn't actually effect anything it's not a modified version they are just using a rating system designed for a 1v1 game in a 5v5 game.
On a side note..... Varus is a thing now.
Last edited by Hippybob; May 9, 2012 at 01:00 PM.