Attention all bronze players!

Ch1efBeefQueef·8/27/2015, 5:58:22 AM·85 votes·7,492 views

There is something you need to know that you have been thoroughly mislead on since the beginning of time on the summoners rift. You are in elo heaven, yes yes i know im crazy for saying that but i will repeat it a thousand times; you are in elo heaven.

I mean sure, your fellow players might be toxic at times and sure they might play a few really bad games. But i would like to inform you that it gets worse as you climb. As you ascend through the ladder of ranked solo queue you will find more and more bloated egos as you climb. People who think they are the best because they are in silver. Or people who think they are gifted because they are in gold. Plats and diamonds who wont even listen to you because they think they are gods. But its all bullshit.

I was in bronze for a year, i said it was elo hell, then i got to silver and my eyes opened up. Then i got to gold and i am losing hope about my dreams of climbing to diamond, not because i dont have what it takes to get better and achieve my goals; but because i dont have what it takes to be demoralized game after game.

If you are insulted by another bronze player it usually goes like this: "fite me irl %%%it your a nerd!" This is literally funny for me to hear from another player. But the true anger and the true sadness comes from people who are full of themselves. They lock in their choice champ, and usually only know 2 rolls. They dont care about you at all, and if things go sour, they get nasty.

I find bronze games seem to be on a more friendly yet unstable level. People back each other up when they do well and are open to new ideas and concepts and even give rolls to other players. When they are losing they do become quite different but it happens to the best of us. But when you get up in ranks, it doesn't matter anymore, win or lose, there will be no honors at the end of the game. No friendly pat on the back, no conversation at all. But they stay the way they are when they are losing, they get flustered and blame you they become toxic.

You are with a good group of people not because they are mechanical geniuses, but because they are innocent players with true heart. That all fades away and becomes numb as they get higher up the ladder though.

In conclusion, please do me and everyone else a favor and when you do get out of "elo hell" which i know you will, do so with pride and humility, and try to bring that human attitude you had to the rest of your games as a player. Because this community can use some humanity. Feel free to dump the toxic attitude if you have it though, cause that doesnt help anyone especially yourself.

Good luck and have fun, and dont forget to spam click the dislike button and type in TL:DR followed by a negative comment. Have an excellent day.

102 Comments

Matezoide8/27/2015, 6:29:30 AM35 votes

Remember kids:

Choose Bronze. It is more fun!

http://i.imgur.com/SpsQXnS.png

Sona Ping8/27/2015, 6:10:31 AM27 votes

Or in other words: Cherish Bronze. Cherish it.

Phaite8/27/2015, 3:31:03 PM9 votes

The "no honor given" point is real. Bronze IV here, and I currently have a total of 7860 honor points spread across the full spectrum of 4 categories. Look up HotshotGG: pro player, really good, 636 honor points total. Look up Doublelift: one of the best adc's playing the game, 257 honor points total. Personally, I pay attention to my team and give honor where I feel it is deserved. One day, when I'm not busy living my life and raising my children, I hope to get out of bronze, but until then, I'll just keep going at it and enjoying learning from every game. You made some very good points in this post, and I give you kudos. I will now return to trying to cherish my time here in bronze. Good luck and have fun everyone!

PRØTØSS8/27/2015, 4:43:05 PM6 votes

[{quoted}](name=IFreaky FogI,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=t7tEQvuR,comment-id=,timestamp=2015-08-27T05:58:22.878+0000) and even give rolls to other players.

I'm moving to bronze. http://www.heatherlikesfood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/stuffed-breakfast-rolls-web1.jpg

Trylobyte8/27/2015, 4:47:54 PM5 votes

I've lost quite a few League friends because they go into Ranked, get silver/gold, and start developing egos the size of the Moon while I remain that unranked co-op vs. AI guy that's somewhat afraid of PvP and isn't really competitive. I watch many of them start turning into toxic, raging tryhards who won't play more than 3 champions even in bot games and who become almost unable to have fun in the game anymore because they're always looking to either improve their skills or show off how awesome they are to other people who don't care.

Bonus Storytime:

I remember one tale of an aspiring player in high silver. He played League with his girlfriend, a silver (now gold) support main, and I knew him because I was one of his girlfriend's best friends since before they met. One day his girlfriend decided she wanted to practice something that wasn't support (Nidalee) and wanted to practice throwing spears from purple side, with him trying to dodge them with his main Kha'zix. I popped into the game on my then-main Darius to dunk bots because I didn't have anything better to do.

This lasted about ten minutes before he started getting 'competitive' - He was upset that my bot-dunking was giving me a higher kill total since I had more bots in my lane. No longer content with just dodging spears he started going aggro on our friend, even though she was just there to practice spears and couldn't play Nidalee very well at all. When I chided him for killing her he proceeded to go after me as well. I lost him as a friend at the exact moment I killed him on his main with roughly equal gold in two straight 1v1s. This did not compute for him; he was ranked, he was awesome, and I was just some bot-gaming, noncompetitive, PvP-fearing scrub. He rage-quit the match and Skype within five seconds of each other and didn't speak to either of us for a week. We didn't really become friends again until after his real life forced him to stop playing Ranked.

Some people just take competition too seriously and forget that underneath allthe MMR and divisions and Elo, it's just a game and should be played to have fun.

Silents4298/27/2015, 2:25:54 PM5 votes

Ranked in general is unpleasant, whether it's the stress I have playing it or the frustration of watching other people be stressed.

Or it's idiots judging anyones experience at the game solely on ranked, I just flat out don't play ranked because of it.

Nekusen8/27/2015, 10:01:24 PM4 votes

1- starts game 2- /muteall 3- enjoys free wins

ErrantLord8/27/2015, 2:29:57 PM4 votes

The other cool thing about Bronze is you can play whatever you want and still do good

woobee8/27/2015, 7:04:00 PM4 votes

Remember: you hear "bronzie scrub" from diamond players more than you hear "diamond asshole" from bronze players.

Bârd8/28/2015, 3:23:16 AM4 votes

Two things go up as you climb.

1: Average player skill 2: Ego

arcinex8/27/2015, 6:55:27 PM3 votes

Silver 1 was elo heaven for me. I don't remember what bronze was like. (Started bronze 4).

Gold is hell.

AstroFerrari 8/27/2015, 7:02:02 AM3 votes

lol this was a great read

Crowe Stalker8/28/2015, 8:54:55 AM3 votes

I was going to upvote, but then I saw the vote was 69 and I felt like somehow if I upvoted I'd be doing this thread a disservice.

slipstreem8/28/2015, 5:32:30 AM3 votes

I am in the plat 2 range and it is a rare ranked game where I don't mute one of my teammates(the vayne mid that tells the teammates not to talk to him)... but I also give out honor at least once every other game(almost always to the support) when I think a teammate deserved it and I probably get honor once every 3-4 games.

Mega MilkJugs8/27/2015, 3:55:59 PM3 votes

Is the higher ranks really bad? i kinda heard that silver was worse than bronze but cmon. Is gold like that too?

No matter where i go it seems like it will feel just bad :c

slippykitten8/27/2015, 6:55:22 PM3 votes

I want some rolls... with butter

DeynaTaggerung8/27/2015, 10:10:06 PM2 votes

Haha yeah, some things can only be seen in retrospect. I played some games recently with friends in bronze elo which dropped the average mmr to b2. I had so much fun, and not because I was better than them but just because I could do whatever and not have to worry about all the complex things that help me climb.

BuzzinTate8/27/2015, 10:53:39 PM2 votes

or whats worse when someones champion pool looks like this:Zed Vayne MasterYi

gubigubi8/28/2015, 12:41:01 AM2 votes

I'm plat and For the most part I'm not that toxic. I'm definitely not a good example for being a great human being but I have never been banned, chat restricted, or even gotten a warning of any kind. I never afk, I never dodge lobbies, and I never feed (intentionally). Sometimes I do rage and most of the time its because I'm mad at myself more than I am my team. I think if you want to climb you shouldn't be worried about toxic players. Yeah they can get you down sometimes but almost every game your actions do matter and you could always do something to improve and become a better player than you were before.

So just remember to have fun and try to be the change you want to see in the world. It will get you a lot farther than putting the blame on something else.

ShadowParker8/28/2015, 12:47:51 AM2 votes

It's true. The higher you climb the more ego's you'll come across. It's ridiculous.

Gaxloom8/28/2015, 1:27:31 AM2 votes

Wow just wow, your idea of Bronze being elo heaven is just wonderful a opinion, which I find to be somewhat true. In my gold/plat games players were more quiet, as well as more focused, but when I did a tournament, and somehow got stuck in bronze division the players were much more friendly and typative; overall it was just a better atmosphere.

Great article on your view of tier divisions.

Amarulence8/28/2015, 1:52:31 AM2 votes

I can agree with this. I enjoy playing in Bronze. I really don't like Ranked, and I play more casually and laid back. Bronze is full of toxic players, of course, but significantly less than others. Bronze III is a pretty enjoyable place compared to lower Silver and Bronze I. I usually find myself making jokes with teammates and the enemy team, and kicking back with a brewski.

EDIT: I don't drink. Stop getting on my case MOM!

Knalxz8/28/2015, 2:48:13 AM2 votes

Once guy was teaching me to get batter at league. I noticed he played alot of asshole champions like Riven, Kat and Nida and I asked why he did that, why not use less pricks. He just said "Each time you climb the ladder knock 20 champions off your play time, They've now become totally useless."

I didn't really understand until i started watching the LCS with people using championed they didn't like but they were just so much more powerful then those were we're accustomed too. Another reason why he always played custom games, because people would just play whatever and not just spam the most crazy OP champions.

The Tilted King8/28/2015, 3:20:07 AM2 votes

this man is a prophet

babbleboi8/28/2015, 5:46:23 AM2 votes

Trying to climb from Silver to Gold is impossible..Not because you're not good at League, but because the people you are matched up with just make you want to uninstall the game and never play again. I don't remember the last time when I had fun in Ranked because there was always someone on my team who was so toxic and negative I swear I got depression through my computer screen. I've been matched with people who are so salty they'll feed a game so you can't get through series. People who play ranked to troll. People who don't get their lane and decide to be immature little shits. People who think they're so much better than you that they feel obligated to just talk trash to everyone.

The Jokes On U8/28/2015, 6:52:12 AM2 votes

Honestly this is so true. I recently hit Platinum and literally all of it is "laggy" Riven mains, smurfs (They're always on the other team btw, and if they're on your team they generally BM and carry, but then they do something stupid and usually ruin it for your and your team), people who tilt after 1 death....When we're winning, and people not banning Fiora and wondering why we're losing a 1v5.

It's beyond infuriating. My last game we lost because Riven went 8 - 20.......We literally lost because of one Champion on the enemy team even though our ADC was fed, our mid and I as the jungler was. Then Riven decides to BM even though we've been nice to her this whole game and talk about being a smurf and if we want her to play bad she will. So she just would feed even harder. Bronze is fun, higher elo is not.

I urgot about it8/27/2015, 7:13:22 PM2 votes

Sadly that's incredibly true

KGBcommunist8/27/2015, 7:54:27 PM2 votes

I dont play ranked often partially because the flaming and trolls. I also agree about the lack of honors and reports. I just played a ranked match and went cho top. I won lane against a tryn. My team wasn't doing so well and i ended up carrying us to a victory. After the game i thanked my team and told the enemy team great effort! I received no gg or honor. My mid lane tf bitched that i stole 3 of his kills and the enemy team flames me for using a "broken" champ. Thats why i don't solo rank. Fuck that shit and its toxic players.

Totalis8/27/2015, 9:03:43 PM2 votes

This is so true. Getting to plat was the worst thing ever. Everyone is mean and full of themselves, its much harder to carry games and a bad player has way more impact. Cherish bronze kiddies

ZenBudS8/28/2015, 4:00:26 AM2 votes

roles, not rolls. that is all.