Is there a difference between plat and lower honestly?

Jetjoe··2 votes·588 views

I mean yeah there's a general consensus that the ranks get better bronze<silver<gold<plat<Diamond <+

But I don't feel I notice this difference at all. Ive seen many silver players play really well in their lanes and ive seen several plat and gold players behave like complete idiots.

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Dukues1 votes

Shrug maybe. I see a lot of silver players who are goodt at laning but then falloff after the laning phase. Mid game seems very shacky in gold as well. I know half the time I am unsure wtf I should be doing after the 20 min mark but games seem a little more organized in gold than silver. Idk about plat but I am sure there is some difference. Granted, it is dynamic queue season so hard to say at this point.

Jetjoe1 votes

Thats what I am trying to ask, When I jungle in plat vs bronze, More bronze games are filled with junk, but some games the bronze's play perfectly. They either win their lane and cs well, and if they are losing they stick to tower and try not to feed until I can help them.

They respond to ganks and engage first. They push towers and objectives and dont roam. They are really fantastic and I dont know why they are in bronze, then theres the other scenario where they are total trash in laning phase, and then when youre suggesting someone split push or something else, they go "wehehe wahhhh dont tell me what to do, im challenjour, I have level 6 mastery in fizz blah blah blah, "

Amasa Delano1 votes

If someone is in Bronze, they may be much better than that (or improving quickly), they just haven't climbed the ladder yet.

YouBelong2Disney1 votes

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I mean yeah there&#039;s a general consensus that the ranks get better bronze&lt;silver&lt;gold&lt;plat&lt;Diamond &lt;+

But I don&#039;t feel I notice this difference at all. Ive seen many silver players play really well in their lanes and ive seen several plat and gold players behave like complete idiots.

you see there are lots of smurfs playing in silver and gold because of dynamic queue and many diamond players hate it even platinums so like i would say maybe 1/5 people in every silver game almost is a smurf or a booster sooo that's why and the 2nd thing is plat is bad because there's alot of boosted people in plat like its probably the most boosted elo of any elo so its not much better to begin with anyways.

Popppyseed1 votes

Why so quick to blame dynamic queue and boosting? This was a thing before this season because of people who are better than there rank but don't care to climb.

Kodyack1 votes

as a plat player, yes, there's a lot of differences.

Mechanically they are less obvious, however macro-game and objective wise, plat players actually realize when and how to take the majority of objectives, I'd say there's about a 30% chance of a failed objective in plat, and upwards of 50% in gold and lower.

also, I cannot recall the last time I lost lane to anyone below plat or gold 1, even in normals or when on a smurf account to teach friends to play (not in ranked, i'm not some DQ scrub) so mechanically plat is better, but it's not outright noticable.

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