A Silver 5 experience playing on a Diamond 3 ranked solo account

So I went over my buddies house this weekend and he wanted to play some league. He has 2 accounts a Diamond 1 and a Diamond 3. So we dou qued as my main role (ADC and him as Jungle/Mid). So playing 10 games in 2 days we went 8-2. This is a list of things that were amazingly different from silver/bronze play that I noticed. I also had him talking in my ear every 10 or 15 seconds on how to manage my lane wave position if I should be pushing or letting them push or telling me where to rotate to (all were amazingly helpful).

1. Kills – People only go in when they are getting a gank or able to secure a kill, never any other time.
2. Team fights – If we won a team fight we take 1, maybe 2 objectives and then back off to go buy they never sat around after trying to get more
3. Pings – People us them so much more
4. Wards – Never have seen so much of the map lit up
5. Skill shots – people actually dodge and you have to predict where to shoot them instead of right at the people
6. Flash – Flash is used about 50% offensively verse almost 90% defensively in low elo.
7. Objectives – it felt like the pace of the game was not to kill the other team but to get more objectives than the other team. My friend would tell me to let the lane push to our tower then he would come bot and we get the kills or force them off. Then we take the tower and dragon almost every game. Once that is done he would have me sit bot lane with a lane freeze (he taught me how to setup consistently) just outside of our tower range. I was then able to outfarm the opponents. Every point was to force an objective and choke them out.

Thoughts