Players seem worse in mid-silver than high bronze. Am I crazy to think that?

Mast3rShake·8/4/2019, 8:22:35 PM·2 votes·3,244 views

I have climbed all the way through bronze now and am currently sitting at silver III. I have noticed that in my past 5-6 games one of the two junglers has always been complete trash (sometimes they are on my team, sometimes on the other so I am not complaining about AHHH my jungler is always trash). In those games they have warded less than 5 times each, one jungler putting only one ward down all game. ONE WARD! How is that possible? I remember thinking when I was climbing that the macro play and warding was much better than it was years ago in bronze. Checking the post game vision score people bought at least one control ward, some people even two! I was thinking that in silver most peope will be getting at least two a person. Not the case at all. In high Bronze I felt like my teammates were working with each other most of the time and chalked it up to players in general just improving over the years lifting bronze up in general compared to those years past. However, in mid-silver it suddenly seems like people are clueless. Are they still dumping the new players into the silver 2-3 rank? Honestly, the adcs and junglers I have been playing with or against have just felt a lot worse all of a sudden.

Am I crazy? Anyone else have this experience?

36 Comments

Darkstar Annie8/4/2019, 8:27:14 PM4 votes

No, you're not hallucinating. Mid silver is the average. More people = more negative people. In Bronze, people are more inclined to shut up, listen, and follow a proclaimed leader. In Silver, everyone has Dunning-Kruger, despite limited game knowledge and mechanics. But don't worry. It gets even worse in Gold.

Slack King8/4/2019, 8:40:25 PM3 votes

As your rank increases, so does ego

InfinitexMortal8/4/2019, 9:26:46 PM1 votes

Players in silver feel far worse than in bronze or even iron 1-2. I think it has to do with new accounts placing silver and getting kept there by demotion prevention. Its far too easy for noobs or really crappy players on a new account to hit silver and stay there. Jungle mains are very rare in silver. If you select fill you will get jungle 90% of the time. I figure if you want to carry silver games become a god tier jungler. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

nm10108/5/2019, 12:37:45 AM1 votes

Mid silver is where new accounts are placed. They changed it for a bit at the beginning of the season, but then chickened out and reverted it. So you are seeing legit, new ranked players now.

ThisName1sDumb8/5/2019, 5:02:09 AM1 votes

Based on this page on League of Graphs The average player lies at Silver 1, with 50% of ranked players being ranked higher than a certain point in Silver 1 and the other 50% being ranked at or lower than said point. The single division with the most players is Gold 4 with 12.47% of the player base, though Silver as a whole has more players than Gold (33.69% to 30.02%). Ignoring Master+ because they consist of an insignificant portion of the player base at 0.11%, the rank distribution is a pretty clean bell curve with pretty similar numbers of players in Iron and Diamond, Bronze and Platinum, and Silver and Gold, and the division between Silver and Gold roughly marks the middle of the bell curve.

As to why you're experiencing worse players in mid-silver, new players are placed around mid-silver, I believe, while those in Bronze have played enough games to drop enough to get to bronze. Some players in bronze just lost most of their placement matches, though, so not every single new player ends up mid-silver after placements, but most do, I believe.

DeathBurst8/5/2019, 7:15:50 AM1 votes

A high Bronze that is currently climbing is probably roughly the same level than a mid-Silver sitting and hovering at the same rank for a couple months. Except the Bronze is currently try-harding whereas the Silver doesn't really care.

SòlKıng Rıven8/5/2019, 8:22:23 AM1 votes

I mean the difference a high rank and mid to low of another child/parent rank has historically been extremely subtle. Some people may belong in silver but might get gold off of a lucky streak, and vice versa. This is the same with almost all ranks aside from challenger/masters for obvious reasons.

enshine8/6/2019, 6:09:14 AM1 votes

they're the same in every way except name

MagicFlyingLlama8/4/2019, 8:31:56 PM1 votes

in Bronze, people are more inclined to shut up, listen, and follow a proclaimed leader

Lmao.

Option B: they cant figure out how to use their keyboard.