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Platinum is sophisticated Bronze

Solicitude·3/13/2018, 2:34:25 PM·2 votes·363 views

A quick story: I have been playing league since the ending of season 1 and, except from some games with friends, i never really played ranked. I only started recently playing ranked and made it from silver 4 to platinum 5 in less than 2 weeks.

But here is what i see in platinum. Most of the games are getting so hard snowballed that you know they are lost in around 15 minutes. Im not always on the losing end, but in most cases 1 or 2 people in one team get fed really fast. Its what happens in most games in bronze. Someone gets fed and carries the game. The difference is that bronze players dont know how to capitalize on a snowballing player and end the game, while in plat people do know how to finish the game.

Im not saying that players in platinum are noobs or whatever. Actually i believe that there isnt much difference in skill between platinum players and diamonds. The difference is that most plats want to snowball really fast, some will manage it and some will feed, while diamonds are more "constrained" in their games, though there are some games where really stupid stuff happens. Platinums definitely have skill and game knowledge, but they are always greedy and blood-thirsty, getting them to make a ton of stupid mistakes they know they shouldnt do. And that turns most of platinum games, from what ive seen, to be more like bronze games rather than high elo.

P.S. Im not complaining about anything. I just wanted to say what ive experienced...

5 Comments

Zelorxon3/13/2018, 3:10:11 PM1 votes

Plat 1 is what bronze 5 would look like if riot actually banned all the trolls/retards that play this game but give 0 fucks about it and shouldn't be part of the playerbase in the first place.

Seeing diamonds and plats cry about "PLAT IS NOT LOW ELO BWEEEEEEH" is basically like seeing a 4 years old that goes to a grown up man and punches him on the leg and says "i'm taller than you!" and the guy goes "no you're not" and the kid throws a tantrum about how the adult man is a toxic noob and he asks him to post his opgg while he rolls on the ground covering himself in dirt and making a puddle of tears.

ChompyWulf3/13/2018, 6:04:16 PM1 votes

After some ARAMs and such where I, a lowly bronzie, have managed to post strong games (I know, it's very different from Rift) I have come to the firm conclusion that my strengths are teamwork and objectives, on a level far above my rank. I'm just bad at hard solo carrying and feel the game is in a place where very very few champs can carry a game unlike in seasons past.

Sun Wu Ryuumoku3/13/2018, 7:40:17 PM1 votes

Im not saying that players in platinum are noobs or whatever. Actually i believe that there isnt much difference in skill between platinum players and diamonds. The difference is that most plats want to snowball really fast, some will manage it and some will feed, while diamonds are more "constrained" in their games, though there are some games where really stupid stuff happens.

no... its more than this. You should play with some diams before making theses statement. Btw as low plat your games are same like high gold. Wait to reach P3 or +.