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Differences between high Silver and high Plat

xLethal··2 votes·536 views

So I just had 2 ranked 5v5s in a row against mostly silver teams. Everyone is plat in our team except our d5 jungler. What I noticed is that in terms of lane mechanics there are close to no differences, except in the bot lane, where even if we didn't kill them, at 15 minutes I had 140cs, while the enemy ad carry had 75, and we even played hypercarries like Trist or Jinx against Graves. We roflstomped them easy after we grouped, because they just kept getting caught, and didn't have that objectives oriented mindset, which made it pretty easy for us.

So this got me thinking, and I went to play mid on my silver 1 smurf. I played ez mid, against viktor, even cs ,but I died 2 times in lane. Second game, played ez against xerath,even cs,died 2 times again. Third game, played ahri against katarina, won in cs and killed him once with a flash charm and ended the game 13-3-14 with double the dmg to champions than anyone else. Fourth game I played Ryze against gnar(500games with that champ) top, died 3 times in lane,lost in cs. I tried my best in all games. It is true I almost never play mid, I main ad carry, but still, I am plat 3, they were silver 1-gold 5.

So, to all silvers/golds out there, stop typing much, only time objectives, focus on your cs, learn how to teamfight properly,and learn how to snowball a lead!! Even though that Gnar banged me in lane, he went for trinity and botrk and he died first in all teamfights. Those viktor and xerath games,we ended up winning too cause they just didn't know how to position in teamfights and were easy as hell to focus. And one more thing, learn to use actives people, botrk,zhonia,manamune,etc. Silver is the place where you see full ap mumu jungle, he goes in ults and dies, full ad gnar, full ad pantheon, and so on.

What happened in those games astonished me, I couldn't believe my eyes what a silver 1 xerath can do. I went back to my plat account and played ezreal mid, both close to perfect farm, 0 kills 0 deaths, nobody took any chances. I liked it more haha.

4 Comments

Whimsy Spook1 votes

So, what you're saying is Silver people are better than Platinums? Holy smokes, I never knew that before, thanks for info! Time to tell all my friends.

3tyson1 votes

but you where playing with your friends ? and im asuming they where not

if im playing with my friend our comunication goes allot better wich results in better teamfighting aswel

o0O Madoka O0o1 votes

Surprisingly im was a silver support with plat mindset but silver skills and I got to gold 1 recently.

Very Hard Engage1 votes

theres no difference between plat through silver mechanics except for cs, and deciding which battles to pick. only when you reach diamond will people start to consistently read their opponent and make predictions. even in silver people can see your face on the minimap is missing and the last known direction it was heading in.

the hardest thing in silver is for people to group up, focus, and pick an objective. people at higher ranks do this better, but even people in silver land skill shots in lane.

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