Please stop saying "I'm X higher rank on my main"

Barkley·Aug 4, 2019·67 votes·15,191 views

Literally nobody cares.

If you're winning, one of two scenarios exists:

A.) You're hardstuck at your rank and so you came down here to stomp on scrubs, therefore ruining the ranked experience for other players by unfairly tilting the scales one way or another. Congrats, you're part of the reason ranked queues suck ass. B.) You're lying.

If you're losing, one of two scenarios exists:

A.) You're getting beaten by people half your rank. Congrats, you suck. How much did you pay for your account? B.) You're lying.

Just play the goddamn game and shut up.

81 Comments

SEKAIAug 4, 201927 votes

The fact they have to tell you that, says everything you need to know about them and their sorry, pathetic ass.

AazzlanoAug 4, 201911 votes

nobody cares about this comment

but when someone trolls or is toxic or whatever because they are on their smurf and they don't fear any punishments, that's a problem

either way, punishments should come much faster and much harder for trolling. probably logistically too difficult to just ban the mains too cause it would take effort to see if it was the same person but it would be ideal if they would both (all?) get banned

RagnaveilAug 4, 20191 votes

I mean, trolling and playing like shit is pretty much infesting the higher parts of the ladder (Dia+), which in turn gives players who are actually trying an ultimatum: Either stop playing on that account and grind a new one, or grind about double the games because you'll get a troll one way or another. Pretty sure most go with the first option (myself included)

BarkleyAug 4, 20193 votes

Sounds like Dia+ is finally starting to deal with what low elo has been dealing with for a literal decade.

I feel no sympathy for you. Cuz every time this gets brought up by a low elo player its "STFU LOW ELO FILTH UR TRASH FUK U" and the problem never gets discussed or solved, because high elo players are so condescending about it.

So I'm actually kinda glad to hear that high elo is infested with toxic players and trolls.

Maybe now something will get done about it.

Hi im 12Aug 4, 201911 votes

You're getting beaten by people half your rank. Congrats, you suck. How much did you pay for your account?

ah the classical "I beat your ap kha'zix top with quinn, you must be boosted" lmao

DisulfiramAug 4, 20192 votes

I sincerely doubt that anyone playing AP Kha'Zix top would actually brag about their rank.

Hi im 12Aug 4, 20199 votes

I'm guessing you have never been a dia+ player in a normal game, there's always some silver %%%% telling you "omg hahahahahaaaa I won a game, diamond btw, how much did you pay for your acc?" the urge to tell that guy that anyone with hands can play through his peak elo with AP sivir is pretty strong at that point.

CytheGuyAug 4, 20191 votes

No one would be saying "diamond btw" if you never told them your rank.

If you're on your main then ppl can still look up your account, but you're still shooting your other foot when you tell people your rank.

FeuerfalkeFXAug 4, 20194 votes

They are looking it up. A lot of people look up the players stats using op.gg or something similar even in a normal game. And a few will say "diamond btw" if they beat you.

nm1010Aug 4, 20193 votes

And a few will say "diamond btw" if they beat you

My experience is that a vast majority of players will, in some way, reference your rank if you lose a normal while being diamond. This is true from both the enemy team and your team.

JuiceBoxPAug 4, 20193 votes

Look, when your diamond 1 ezreal adc can't fucking cs you know his account is bought.

3TWarriorAug 5, 20191 votes

well, the other options are: a tragedy has happened and they might not feel well; they could be ill; they could be impaired(drugs or alcohol), perhaps they haven't slept

I don't disagree that they probably took the cheap way to get the rank, just that it's not always the case

now if they have a history that bad in ranked or have not played any ranked since achieving their rank...then it MIGHT be bought

DeathBurstAug 5, 20191 votes

they could be impaired(drugs or alcohol), perhaps they haven't slept

Yeah, actually, that's very likely. I mean, why play in Normals in the first place, if not because you have a good reason to not play in Ranked?

Hi im 12Aug 5, 20194 votes

or you know, they could be a support or jungle main

JuiceBoxPAug 5, 20191 votes

Well, i am a supp/jungle main and i know how to cs better than that.

One could literally not climb that high without the ability to farm properly

That and he lost his last 10 ranked games / didn't play any in the past month+

Hi im 12Aug 5, 20191 votes

seems like an ego thing where you look at other people and go "I'm not that bad", you probably are, when I played my main to dia the first time as someone who only played jungle I couldn't cs as a mid or adc at a silver level and I'm not ashamed to admit that.

JuiceBoxPAug 5, 20191 votes

nice bait , i ain't falling for a flame war

Hi im 12Aug 5, 20191 votes

it ain't a bait, whenever you see someone watching a replay or something on twitch for example the silvers in chat go "LMAO theres no way this is diamond im better than these guys".

JuiceBoxPAug 5, 20191 votes

Ok. that diamond 1 ezreal had <100 cs by minute 36.

I'm pretty sure i can do better than that. and i am a silver 4 support main scrub

Diamonds are not unbeatable, btw. I've beaten many in lane and outside of it.

Just because i could give less fucks about ranked doesn't mean i am not playing at a high level

Hi im 12Aug 5, 20191 votes

link the replay

JuiceBoxPAug 5, 20191 votes

I don't keep replays.... also, that was like a week ago. I've probably done like 30 games since then

Hi im 12Aug 4, 20192 votes

No one would be saying "diamond btw" if you never told them your rank.

clearly stated normal games where people look you up here

report adc feedAug 5, 20191 votes

This. This is exactly a problem I'm having wth a friend. Someone gave him a Diamond account, he went 0-6 and still won the game, now genuinely goes around bragging that his main is diamond.

FalnAug 5, 20191 votes

quality friend, abort

Sewer SideAug 4, 20197 votes

A post from you that I finally agree with

CrystalyskAug 4, 20197 votes

When they say that there is a 99% chance they are playing on their main

IllabetheAug 4, 20194 votes

Usually rank context comes into play when people question your credibility or win an argument by trying to rank shame.

Kind of ridiculous to write a thread just to tell people who are getting picked on not to try to defend themselves. Whether they be winning/losing/lying, rank shaming and harassment isn't justified.

Lucky HarbingerAug 4, 20193 votes

What about A) he got stomped by a higher ranked smurf.

BarkleyAug 4, 20193 votes

T H E P L O T T H I C K E N S

BastileanAug 4, 20192 votes

Also, I want sharing your twitch channel to be a reportable offense. Nobody wants that XD, especially at my elo. I work for a living. If you are barely as good as me and play all day while I am working you are going no where in life.

Horse GrenadesAug 4, 20193 votes

Yeah! I hate people who aren't as good as me at things!

preternaturalAug 4, 20191 votes

this is my main and it's in gold and matchmaking is shit. these things matter otherwise we can't fix matchmaking. but ofc only those who will mention their rank care about fixing the game the rest of you just see it as a clout tool cause you wanna drop panties with your diamond border (never gonna happen on both fonts)

usul1202Aug 4, 20195 votes

Wait, high elo isn't how I get a girlfriend? .........Shit......... All that wasted time.....

DukuesAug 4, 20191 votes

Damn and I thought I was in silver for a long time.... lul.

Neo CyrusAug 5, 20192 votes

Why would leave such a toxic comment? At least he plays ranked, 90% of NA are too cowardly. That automatically makes him better than 9/10 players even if he is hardstuck Silver. And he's been Gold at least 2 times. Congrats, you tried a weird flex on someone who's peak league you've never surpassed.

DukuesAug 5, 20191 votes

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Why would leave such a toxic comment? At least he plays ranked, 90% of NA are too cowardly. That automatically makes him better than 9/10 players even if he is hardstuck Silver. And he's been Gold at least 2 times. Congrats, you tried a weird flex on someone who's peak league you've never surpassed.

Idk how you get "at least twice" but ok. I'm going to assume he got lucky not that gold is good cuz it's not but fuck man hard to be stuck silver when playing that much. Plus it such a whiny bitch post (although it's 100% accurate lol). Not going to lie I don't know why I made the comment either I just hate silver so much and every player in it. Its not their fault, but it also is because they are the ones there and who make it so shitty. But ultimately it's riots problem/fault

I'll hit plat this season just need couple more weeks maybe. Depends on how much I play, sick of ranked so only playing when I am in the mood. And don't worry I know plat 4 isn't really plat haha so can spare me the luls.

At least I never get worse at the game I mean fuck I quit playing the game months at a time but I at least get same tier/ and divs or whatever. Plus I play multiple roles at the same elo, unlike some people. I mean yea... gold is shit but how many people in gold are only there because they only play 1 role and 2-3 champs in that role? Same for plat? And diamond? Hell might get multiple accounts to plat this season playing different roles but I really don't love the game like I used to.

I really just wish Clash was fixed and released it's the only thing I want to do in League these days. Played some 5v5 flex with friends this season and really just makes me want to play clash so badly. Even though we all low elo trash players we have fun playing together and that's all that matters.

Neo CyrusAug 5, 20195 votes

You're missing the point, no one gives a shit what your rank is. Most of NA doesn't play ranked out of fear/anxiety of having a low rank and that's made worse by the shaming low Elo gets, even randomly, like your last post. NA's ranked pool is small enough as it is, it doesn't need to become worse. That's my problem with comments like the one you made.

DukuesAug 5, 20191 votes

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You're missing the point, no one gives a shit what your rank is. Most of NA doesn't play ranked out of fear/anxiety of having a low rank and that's made worse by the shaming low Elo gets, even randomly, like your last post. NA's ranked pool is small enough as it is, it doesn't need to become worse. That's my problem with comments like the one you made.

Fair, but it's not really going to matter. More than even ranked anxiety I think it's just the endless grind in poorly match made games that make people not want to play. Plus climbing is really toxic. Most my friends who don't play ranked just don't want to be expected to play hundreds of ranked games to reach their true rank. Plus like you said the ranked anxiety people have who aren't used to just spamming ranked like the rest of us. Its only going to get worse in the future, as I don't really see Riot moving back towards longer games since the pro scene is way more fun to watch these days with quicker games plus they want faster games to keep up with newer games that are being released. I think the game was a lot more fun to play before season 8, but I will admit pro scene was less fun to watch before last season. I just can't see Riot fixing solo/duo queue over pro scene :(.

But at least season 9 isn't like unplayable. There is a lot of bad/dumb shit but idk... I feel like it's not really that bad at least compared to last season. But maybe I have finally played enough games that I am numb to how bad it's gotten.

BarkleyAug 5, 20194 votes

And for the record, I've been gold twice and hit 2 wins in my plat promos once.

But (and downvote me all you want, I'm used to it and don't care) every season the goddamn stupid ranked system starts me back at the top of bronze or the bottom of silver and I have to climb through the cesspool all over gain, which takes WAY too long.

The minute I'm out of silver, I climb rapidly. As I said -- gold twice, almost plat once -- the few times I managed to hack my way through garbage ass silver troll bullshit.

But it doesn't matter, and I don't care anymore -- because silver is dog shit and takes forever to climb through with all the AFKs, inters, feeders, flame, and other miscellaneous bullshit. Why you don't just keep your rank from season to season I'll never know. I'd be gold/plat for many seasons now if I didn't have to deal with silver every goddamn time.

But w/e. This post will get downvoted to oblivion and people will say "silver is so easy to climb out of" "you're where you belong" blah blah blah, I've heard it all 10000 times, I don't care.

Point is, when I get out of silver I climb rapidly. Takes me damn near a whole season to get out of silver, but then it takes me less than a week to almost hit plat -- RIDDLE ME THAT, BATMAN.

But then the season ends and I go through placements for the new season, and guess what -- I'm right back down to high bronze low silver and have to do it all over again. Its tons of fun and not infuriating at all. It must be so fucking nice to end a season in diamond and then get placed in plat or diamond the next time. Never have to deal with low elo. Don't even know what its like.

And sure, for people that play carry-style champs, assassins, that kind of thing -- its probably really easy to climb through and carry yourself. But I don't play stuff like that. I play tanks. I play setup champs. I play things like sejuani. Amumu. Tank jarvan. If I get a bad team, I'm just screwed. You're never gonna hard carry a game on a tank. It just doesn't happen. And I just don't play well on hard-carry champs like riven, yi, trynd -- that sort of thing. Its just not my style. So i CANT carry myself all by myself 1v9, I'm not that good. I'm just not. But I'm DEFINITELY not a goddamn silver player, and the fact that I climb RAPIDLY once I get out of silver is a testament to that. I climb RAPIDLY once I have team mates that actually know wtf they're doing. People that will follow a call. People that don't go 0-10 in lane in 10 minutes. People that don't go suicide into a baron that's already taken. People that don't run it down mid because they died once and "GG GAME'S OVER GO NEXT"

I don't play champs that can handle that sort of adversity. I don't play solo carry "yolo q hero" 1v9 champs. I don't have the mechanical skill for it. And I'd never claim to be Diamond+. I'm platinum AT BEST, probably more like mid-high gold. What i DO HAVE, however, is macro play, strategic knowledge, and excellent team coordination.

Well.....That doesn't work unless you have a team.

Downvote me. Flame me. Rank shame me. I don't care. Ranked sucks, its an unnecessary stress fest and its just not even worth my time anymore to try.

This is why I'm so glad to hear that high elo has become as toxic as low elo has been for a literal fucking decade. I'm glad. SUPER glad to hear it. maybe now you high elo condescending holier-than-thou princesses will understand what we've been dealing with down here for a LITERAL DECADE.

Welcome to hell, motherfucker. We've been here for 10 years. Its nice and cozy and warm.

TakaDamaAug 5, 20191 votes

I might create twenty smurf accounts just to like that post twenty more times. Well said.

A WlLD RATAug 5, 20191 votes

No offence, but it's not Riot's fault or the Systems fault that you're gold. I get permabanned very often and when I make accounts I typically can get them from Iron to Platinum in about a week or so, my peak rank being Platinum 1.

I do agree that Silver and Gold is "elo hell" and the games are very fucking difficult down there, but it is climbable if you're better than the opposing players.

A WlLD RATAug 5, 20191 votes

and also, when I was first getting out of Silver it took me 900 games. 900 games in Silver. But now I can get out of Silver easily in maybe 15 - 20 games.

BarkleyAug 5, 20191 votes

We’re all very proud of you. Did you come here just to gloat like every other condescending high elo princess, or did you have something meaningful or helpful to add to the conversation?

Are you going to offer me some help? Maybe queue up with me and offer some actual solid advice?

Or are you just here to toot your own horn, basically saying “git gud?”

DukuesAug 5, 20191 votes

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and also, when I was first getting out of Silver it took me 900 games. 900 games in Silver. But now I can get out of Silver easily in maybe 15 - 20 games.

Season 8 fuck you at all or you just stomp lane harder enough to carry most games? My peak rank before this season was gold 2 currently G1, but like in season 8 at 1 point I legit had a 40% win rate in silver.... lmfao. After like 100 games. I just..... didn't adjust well to season 8 changes at all. I still really don't understand climbing in silver, but I have always been more of a macro focused player and trying to play around the team than just hard stomp my lane each game. Even this season I had like 48% win rate in silver, but once I got to gold win rate has gone up. Granted it still only 51%... but hey... I am at my actual elo or very close to it so it makes sense. But legit in like season 6 I had multiple accounts with 56-57% win rates going through silver (which obviously isn't very good but when your main only like gold 2-3 it makes sense I guess). But then season 8 hit and I got fucked hard lol... and I still fucking hard struggle playing in silver..... I just can't stand my teammates dying like 6 times before 10 mins in at least 2 lanes almost every game where enemy team can use a point click ability plus 1 other person and kill me within a second. I am not good enough to dodge every skill shot and seems like if I get hit by anything I just fall over dead and games over. I really just haven't loved the game since before season 8... feel like solo/duo queue sucks ass to play now. Although I do like season 9 over season 8 by quite a lot.

FalnAug 5, 20191 votes

if your really are a plat quality player, you should be able to outlane/outjungle your opponent in silver by ALOT.

BarkleyAug 5, 20191 votes

I jungle circles around silver kids. But it doesn't matter. As I stated in the above text, I play tanks. I play Sejuani. Jarvan. Amumu.

I can't solo carry on these champs. If I get a bad team, I'm just boned. I could be the best jungler that ever lived. Tanks are not known for their pushing power. Tanks are not known for their ability to take objectives.

I've started taking demolish -- which helps, admittedly... but...

If I perform the single greatest jungling feat this world has ever seen - it doesn't matter. If all of my laners are 0-10 by 10 minutes and the enemy team can just push against me with impunity, I just lose.

DukuesAug 5, 20191 votes

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I jungle circles around silver kids. But it doesn't matter. As I stated in the above text, I play tanks. I play Sejuani. Jarvan. Amumu.

I can't solo carry on these champs. If I get a bad team, I'm just boned. I could be the best jungler that ever lived. Tanks are not known for their pushing power. Tanks are not known for their ability to take objectives.

I've started taking demolish -- which helps, admittedly... but...

If I perform the single greatest jungling feat this world has ever seen - it doesn't matter. If all of my laners are 0-10 by 10 minutes and the enemy team can just push against me with impunity, I just lose.

Build full lethality JarvanIV :) that's what I do haha. Just instant kill whoever most fed player on enemy team is... or maybe 2 or more if you land a good combo.

I also struggle with Sejuani in silver this season haha. Look at my op.gg... I legit have like over a 4.00 k/d/a with her! but only like 30% something win rate. I get k/d/a isn't everything ... but holy fuck man. You can only gift so many fucking kills and tank so much for your team.... at some fucking point they have to be able to do something themselves. But when you get worse carries then the enemy team by a mile... doesn't fucking matter if you give them a bunch of kills and tank for them they still so fucking bad they just fall over dead before being able to do anything in team fights.

BarkleyAug 5, 20191 votes

I've tried lethality Jarvan. I've tried lots of things. The fact of the matter is that I'm a tank player. I play tanks, I love tanks, that's what I'm good at.

If I try anything else I'm noticeably worse. I am not a mechanically gifted player at all. I couldn't 1v1 my way out of a paper bag. I'm not good at finding flanks. I'm not good at singling out a carry.

What I'm good at is initiating fights, playing the map, fighting for vision, tracking the enemy jungler, and assisting on plays. I'm a very supportive style player. Nothing flashy.

I can hit 5-man amumu ult after 5-man amumu ult after 5-man amumu ult.

I can hit 3-4 man cataclysms all day every day.

I can thread the needle on a sej ult to hit a high priority target probably 90% of the time.

I almost ALWAYS know where the enemy jungler is. I almost ALWAYS get every drake, herald, and baron.

But if my team is a bunch of dunce monkeys -- none of that shit matters.

DukuesAug 5, 20191 votes

Yea honestly silver literally fucking sucks to play through now more than ever. Last two seasons I have less than 50% win rate playing through silver. And like you said once I hit gold my win rate climbs. I feel like it has gotten worse last two seasons with decreasing average game times and snowball mechanics. Before season 7 I had no problem climbing through silver but after season 8 it makes me sad even thinking about playing in silver it's so fucking boring/tilting.

lol I am not even high elo but I get what you are saying. For a moment I thought maybe adding Iron would help. I pictured like bottom 10% of players in iron then next 20% in bronze then like 25-30% in silver and top like 35-40% in gold and keep the rest the same. But instead Riot just kinda fucked the whole thing up. I get bronze 5 was needed to go lower but having an entire tier subject to only 2% of the ranked population at the bottom of the ladder...... is so damn shitty. And since they fucked up like everything and doubled the number of players in diamond there are legit like double the number of players in diamond this season THAN IRON lol.....

Riot really sucks at their jobs not going to lie. But.... with the changes and increasing the number of players in higher tiers I am pretty much guaranteed to hit plat this season as long as I keep playing..... so thanks I guess? Although personally it doesn't feel great since I know plat 4 is really old gold 2..... so I have to hit at least plat 3 to even be old plat 5. Seems dumb as fuck but hey.... if it made sense it wouldn't be Riot games right?

Best thing I found for climbing in silver is just like muting everyone, sticking to a role and champ I can feel I can carry with and just grinding out the games. It sucks but fuck it.... once you get to like gold 3 you can at least play League for a bit..... I heard it gets bad again once you get to like mid plat but from like gold 3-plat 4? or just gold 1 ranked has actually been kind of fun lol. Like.... I can actually like work with my teammates in most games and shit feels weird.

Neo CyrusAug 11, 20191 votes

For what little it's worth, ranked in Plat+ is definitely not as toxic as Silver anymore. Things became better when self-proclaimed "Professor Astronaut Engineer Actor Polymath Polyglot Omnipotent Also-an-MD-Doctor God-Emperor Lyte" (or however his mongo named was spelled) got fired so people didn't need to hear his bullshit anymore and calmed down. Seriously. It was all uphill after he was finally told to fuck off.

The only firing I can think of which could match that, in the positive effect it had, was when the regressive SJW lunatic that was in charge of the art team got the boot for being too insane. I think the management got sick of him when he would use resources for weeks to have models redone solely to do nothing but remove their breasts. I wish that was some sort of stupid joke. It's not.