I always hear how bronze, silver, and gold are the same tier "practically", but I never hear anyone talking about platinum this way. So I was wondering, how is the transition from Gold tier to Platinum tier? What are the significant changes around meta, the opponents you face, and what it means for yourself as an individual to become platinum for the first time.
It's a slow transition from bronze to challenger pretty much, but if you play matches a tier apart in mmr (e.g. due to swapping between a smurf and a main) it can certainly feel very different.
Still, by plat or diamond or so, most people are pretty mechanically decent, and know how the majority of champions work. While mechanics will still improve going upwards from gold, it gets into diminishing returns pretty quickly, and it's much more about decision making and teamwork that differentiates players rather than raw mechanics.
In bronze-gold on the other hand, it's not terribly surprising to encounter players who legitimately don't know what an enemy champs abilities do, and mechanics are very hit and miss. There are some players who are that low with 'ok' decision making but atrocious mechanics, and there are some players who have raw mechanics that are actually better than some plats but their decision making is awful (having gotten to their rank solely by mechanically outplaying their opponents).
Again though, it's all a slow transition and theres no suddenly jump from gold 1 to plat 5 or anything like that, and it's all pretty relative. Golds will make bronze players look like a bunch of monkeys, but diamonds will make the golds look like monkeys, and challengers would probably make diamonds look like monkeys. You can't really say anyone other than the challengers necessarily make 'good' decisions (and pro players might disagree), it's just as you inch upwards through the elo it's increasingly more likely that people will know the outcome of a given play before it actually happens, so you get less YOLO plays with people all in-ing only to lose as is remarkably common in low elos.
It's all relative. I'm D5 and even I can tell a drastic difference between a gold and bronze player
Platinum is honestly trash.. it's full of egotistical players who think they're gods at the game and are entitled to getting their lane camped so they can "carry" etc
it's worse than bronze, imo.
There is a transition in skill from bronze to gold im seeing right now in my games the main difference is how well the players can coordinate as a TEAM around high sliver you will see a change in how teamwork and plays are much more present the annoying thing is that people in gold still dont know what the fuck a mini map is even the gold 1 , 2 players i have encountered have the reaction time of a fkin sloth at plat level im guessing that's where players are more sharp and aware of whats going on Even at gold i see people making the same mistakes that a bronze 5 player could make , I find it astounding how some of these players got this high. Mechanically things are definitely above average but people still do not know the limits of their champions , they're arrogance betrays them and will keep them in gold. Another concept that im sure plat players have a better grasp of is "rotation" Even in gold people will stick around in fights or chase for way too long and the people who died at the beginning of fray will rotate back right in and finish off whoever killed them in the first place.
Plat V is basically Bronze V
You enter the plane of "I have some decent skill but I refuse to work with my team properly to be most likely to gain a victory"
play one champ play it good you climb to d5 if you aint dogshit. nothing more to talk about for this game anymore. ANYONE can get to d5 atm the game is just that easy and snowbally. As long as you use your brain to some extent you will climb to diamond.
most plats are just advanced one tricks.
