At what elo do players stop doing these noob things?

Miku Lv99··1 votes·952 views

Recently I've come across some bad ADCs. For examples:

No AD runes at all, but has trash like crit chance yellows and blues, scaling MR blues, etc. And then starts with a long sword. After going 0-2, gets sword of the occult. Doesn't even have any other items at all. And then guess what, we lost.

Graves has 1875+ gold on first back after winning a fight where his thresh hooked the enemy ADC and his lane getting the first 2 kills of the game, opposing ADC only has like 1000. But instead of buying a BF and boots, goes for a pickaxe and berserker's greaves instead. Opposing ADC bought nothing yet, waiting on a BF. But Graves just pushes the lane. Doesn't even try to attack the opponents that are way behind, and they just tank the minions right before their tower and don't even miss any. Then the behind ADC recalls and gets a BF. Not only that, but Graves then loses a couple fights. The next think you know, it's 20 minutes into the game, and he's stuck on berserker's greaves, pickaxe, and cloak of agility, and still waiting for that BF. And then loses another fight and the tower and then the dragon and pretty much lost the game because of this. Good thing this Graves was on my opponent's team lol.

And you might not believe this, but these were from my ranked games and done by players that were in like platinum 3. I would have thought that players that made it that far would stop doing things this bad. Does anyone know how high you have to get for it to stop? I mean I'm not asking for players to play at the LCS level or anything, but where do they not do things on this level of noob? Or does it just never go away because of account sharing and these players weren't even really platinum 3?

12 Comments

ShuffledPancake2 votes

When you finish your bronze 4 promos.

Vistha Kai2 votes

You assume a rank is equal to player's skill. That would be true in a 1v1 game.

In the Retcon of Legends rank means shit and a challenger can be beaten by bronzies.

ZileanUltJesusOP1 votes

lol wut

Very Hard Engage1 votes

gold2+ is when you start to see actual coordination and tryhards consistently. you'll still run into an occasional troll, but it will be far less often than silver and bronze.

MLDzXnRRR1 votes

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gold2+ is when you start to see actual coordination and tryhards consistently. you'll still run into an occasional troll, but it will be far less often than silver and bronze.

He told in his post that he is Plat 3... so...

ZeeDrakon1 votes

yea but hes also salty and probably exxagerrating

Very Hard Engage1 votes

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He told in his post that he is Plat 3... so...

the Gangplank Teemo and Poppy lock ins are still real even in challenger, it doesn't end, you just have a cessation of raging, back talk, and general griefing. higher up players at least have something in mind when they do it and what they're going to accomplish with it. its not like they're doing it 10 times in a row, they're just trying it.

ZileanUltJesusOP1 votes

picking a certain champion is not trolling idk where the community gets this. I have seen gp's completely obliterate teams. Just because a champ isnt a common pick doesnt mean when they are the person picking them must be a troll.

Very Hard Engage1 votes

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picking a certain champion is not trolling idk where the community gets this. I have seen gp's completely obliterate teams. Just because a champ isnt a common pick doesnt mean when they are the person picking them must be a troll.

you look at his kit and all it has is harass, an aoe slow, a heal, and a steroid, and gold advantage, you look at that and you ask yourself, what does he bring to the team setting. other champions can do what he do, but better, i want my adcs to be ranged and be able to keep themselves alive, not throw themselves into death, and i want my bruisers to be able to peel, a mediocre slow isn't useful to my team.

GP just doesn't shine well anywhere other than the laning phase. he does that great. but he just falls off later unless he gets really ahead.

im not saying GP is a troll pick or should just be left out, people should just have a definite purpose for him or a job to accomplish before locking in "rrrr matey, ima chomp down some oranges this game" champion.

look at GP, and tell me what hes good at, and what hes going to get done for us, now ill go out and list 5 other champions that i think do that same job you picked him for, better.

ZileanUltJesusOP1 votes

eh not true, an AOE 8 sec slow is pretty useful in team fights plus an attack damage and movement speed steroid for everyone. Not to mention critplank can one shot an adc. also has a built in cleanse with a huge heal. Anyone can take a kit and list out weaknesses and ignore strengths. For example, Shyvanna. Absolutely 0 cc. Literally none. All of her abilities require you to be directly next to the person. Everyone can see when your ult is up. You are the most prone champ in the game to kiting besides maybe udyr. Your ult scales with AP when you are an ad champ. Sounds pretty shitty huh? yet she is still one of the best top laners in the game. Anyone can ignore strengths and just focus on weaknesses.

Very Hard Engage1 votes

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eh not true, an AOE 8 sec slow is pretty useful in team fights plus an attack damage and movement speed steroid for everyone. Not to mention critplank can one shot an adc. also has a built in cleanse with a huge heal. Anyone can take a kit and list out weaknesses and ignore strengths. For example, Shyvanna. Absolutely 0 cc. Literally none. All of her abilities require you to be directly next to the person. Everyone can see when your ult is up. You are the most prone champ in the game to kiting besides maybe udyr. Your ult scales with AP when you are an ad champ. Sounds pretty shitty huh? yet she is still one of the best top laners in the game. Anyone can ignore strengths and just focus on weaknesses.

her ult is a slight knockback AND serves as an interrupt to whatever they were doing providing far more utility than chase (which we have multiple options now thanks to gold coin and righteous glory.

GP is just outclassed, hes a mix and not really good at anything, lots of champions bring 1hko potential, veigar, syndra, heimerdinger,

MLDzXnRRR1 votes

Why do you think that pro players are some gods who play in a perfect manner? Watch some streams, youtube channels or replays from tournament games and you will often see some pretty cocky or stupid plays from the "challenjour" players... Also ask yourself: Do I play good? I've played recently as Corki with Alistar support. Alistar was flaming me for not perfectly farming, while all he was doing was sitting behind me or under tower, while their Leona was trying to go in every time, when her cds were up. I told him: "If I overextend for the backline minions, I will get comboed by Leona and their adc, while you casually chill here " - he wasn't even spamming his heal. So in his eyes I was a bad player, but he wasn't playing at all. We kind of lost lane, but later we were winning teamfights (until their Vi ulted me 3 or more times in a row and it was a game).

AD runes are good only for last hitting minions, even champions who scale with raw AD are often better with armor pen... If you can perfectly CS without bonus AD, I don't see how are any other runes worse. You will generally have to try and dodge harass, if you go for a engage to the death, the outcome is decided by factors like: number advantage, who attacked first, who did more attacks, landed more abilities, CC, using of summoners spells, not by +8 bonus AD from runes... IF you are letting them poke you for free, the bonus AD from runes will probably matter...

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