I am not in Elo hell I am just in the land of the smurfs
I am trying to level up my US account (up to level 12) and most of the games seem to be people on second accounts hunting down my low level team mates! I know my account is technically a smurf as well but I am only up to level 20 on my main so I don't feel too bad.
Anyway my solution to this is pretty much just play Teemo, reasons being
1) I pretty much never lose a lane with him
2) Gives map control, which will never happen otherwise
3) Can split push to victory if necessary
4) You can build like a tanky dps and still do lots of damage
5) Playing Teemo is hilarious amounts of fun (pro tip when escaping a gank using move quick and ghost type "vroooom" in chat)
The fact that no one builds defence or plays tanks at this level does lead to some funny builds though. My last game against a fed TF and Pantheon that just focused me lead to this:
I stupidly sold wriggle's to start on Bloodrazor rather than keeping hold of wriggle's till I could buy it outright. I had more armour than our Rammus
My US account name is Ahaucan btw if anyone wants to play, I will warn you I am not great...