elo hell exists because people think that so long as they keep playing the game with a higher than 50% win rate. they should always be climbing.

they first off don't know how MMR/SR works because they are too lazy to just google/reddit search it and they don't understand that they basically gain SR as fast as they improve. if they never improve. they never climb.

shitty teammates makes quality of games worse but it DOES NOT AFFECT YOUR SR.

you are not in low SR because of your shit team. it affects everybody. you lost games to them. and you WON games when they were on enemy team. people only remember the times when they lose because of it.

sorry but elo hell doesn't exist. it only exists for those that believes they belong in an SR higher than where they currently should be.

look at unit lost/stylosa. he duo queued with a top 500 reinhardt player. got to GM. he stopped duo queuing with that top 500 player and started solo queuing. he dropped into master and can't climb back into master. he spent more time making clickbait videos and saying how elo hell exists than simply just improving to GM skill level.

look at like every popular pro player/streamer. they drop into master and get back into GM in like a day.