Different level of strategy in tiers, strange...

WleoW·5/14/2015, 3:44:18 AM·1 votes·653 views

Ok: I play in two different accounts, in NA I'm silver 3, and in LAN I'm gold 2 (almost 1). I understand the differences about MMR, kda and those things, and can tell you that gold 2-ish is about the same skill level in both servers (although NA is a bit tougher). Ok now there is this problem I've encountered: In gold, I can play normally, have a decent sense of the game and a good skill level; I get good scores, win most matches and well its like I'ts the level I belong in. Now, I began playing in silver recently just to "boost it up" since I've been gold 2 on that account as well before, and to my surprise, the game level is completely different. When it comes to skill, I can notice a difference in the players (obviously worse in silver), but in decision making, its a whole different level. Let's say I roam somewhere, I get caught A LOT more than in gold, because players in this elo make completely different moves and you find them in different places. For example: lets say I go top to help a teammate, and to my surprise, a wild support (yeah wut) and jungler are in our jungle taking camps. I die. These strange tactics in Silver have made me die tons more, even though the skill level is lower. I was wondering what made these huge changes in strategy and stuff, becuase playing normally (no raging, afk'ing or feeding) in silver I get like a 0.3 kill/death ratio, while in higher gold I get around 2.0. Thanks for your time reading, have a treat:
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4 Comments

UberAffe5/14/2015, 3:51:20 AM1 votes

The problem is that it isn't strategy, they do that kind of stuff from not understanding what they should be doing.

If there wasn't so much rage and afking in low elo I think I would actually enjoy it a lot simply because of all the random things that happen.

SquirrellyOtter5/14/2015, 4:11:24 AM1 votes

I just played a couple games in low Silver NA: in the first, the enemy team had no jungler and double-teamed top; in the second game we had a Heimer support.

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