I've played in all the ranks and Silver is by far the hardest:
I've played in all the ranks
has a 54% winrate over almost 40 games in silver press x to doubt
I've watched a handful of unranked to challenger runs and have never seen one get stuck in silver. hell, they rarely lose a single game that early.
And here I am, only ever grinding to gold, saying silver is piss easy. Every year there's some two or three truly unwinnable games but that's it.
If you're stuck in silver you simply don't deserve gold.
"I've played in all the ranks and Silver is by far the hardest"
where? you're a 50% win rate silver player.how did you play in every rank?
the worst rank has to be plat or diamond. everybody thinks they are amazing and never make mistakes and its hard.
every person claiming that silver is the hardest rank and say they are smurfing are full of shit - change my mind
That's where most smurf accounts are?
I feel like they're all stuck in high gold/low plat ELO with the rest of us. When I was in silver I rarely came across smurfs. Maybe I just never noticed them though.
I don't know. This is my first time trying for plat. I usually just get to gold for rewards, but I like the new plat border better than the gold one.
It's pretty hard though because I've seen so many diamond divas throw because they experienced a minor inconvenience like the rest of us mere mortals.
You can't really do anything about it either because it's just their side account, and Riot doesn't even punish trolls anyways. They're just going to get another account and troll. I don't think it holds anyone back, but man does it tilt you for a bit.
arent most streamers and youtubers running their smurphs in gold to plat?
they usually have like 12 to 20 accounts and just let them decay to never move out of that mmr and stomp less skilled opponents for their shitty troll builds. i dont think a lot of smurphs in general ever stay at silver mmr.
Currently "plat" hovering at around 59-60% winrate..
As a support main I agree that silver is the hardest rank. In Silver you have to "carry harder" and can't relay on your team like you can in higher elo. Get your adc to 10/0 in silver and they find a way to throw it by running around solo in the other teams jungle, and they do it over and over soon they are 10/10. There is rarely any teamplay and everyone is just doing random stuff to throw any lead you give them.
It's also harder to support silvers as they tend to have no understanding of laning. So you end up overpushed and in positions you know are bad again and again, but there is little you can do other than to roll with it. Silvers also struggle hard vs assassins like katarina, regnar or even master yi and tends to die a lot to them. You basically have to be the one to shut down such players on your own in silver.
Also the stuff about silver being smurf land is true as well, in silver there are just so many "high elo" smurfs temporary ranking up new accounts. These smurfs often get massively snowballed in silver. What often happens in silver games is it becomes a "battle of the smurfs", like "we have two diamond smurf" their team has "2 plat and a masters". Then the smurfs decide the game and the true silvers just get carried or stomped depending on who has better smurfs.
Gold them same Plat the same, Dia the same and probably everything above the same. Your teammates may get better but so are the enemys.
