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Unpopular Opinion: The Majority of Players are Inherently Not Good

OneBarrel·10/30/2018, 3:02:36 AM·5 votes·1,223 views

As one such voice of the opinions of the few in Platinum or up, we can collectively come to the conclusion that your complaints prove that your are not inherently skilled at the game (hence the Bronze-Gold ranks). As a platinum player, I don't believe I am good, even if I'm top 3.7% in North America. That means all of you random low elo players constantly blaming Riot's balancing team that have already specifically stated they balance for Plat+ since changes below that don't really impact low elo. This being said, that means the main problem for low elo is not certain random stomp picks or bad teammates, it's your lack of game knowledge. Sure, you might have amazing mechanics (press d to doubt) but you can't do anything if you don't know how to close out a game (MACROOOO). Everytime I see the most upvoted post being "Leblanc is broken" "Irelia is broken" "Graves is broken" "Jax is broken" "Viktor top is broken", a little part of me realizes League of Legends will soon be just a bunch of terrible players when all the decent ones quit. Stop complaining. Maybe improve yourself instead of thinking you're the next Faker with 4 boulders weighing you down in Bronze. Because guess what, you're not. You just keep making excuses.

Now I know the result of this post will be me being downvoted to hell, but who cares. All that will do is prove my point that the majority of players are bad (which is also proven by how ranks work) which means your opinions and rants are not always correct.

10 Comments

ValyrianBlade10/30/2018, 3:06:30 AM2 votes

Except people at worlds don't even seem to know how to deal with LeBlanc... She has a 100% win rate in the knockout phase.

Eleshakai10/30/2018, 3:27:21 AM2 votes

I mean... it depends on what you compare them to. Since good is generally a comparison to an average, it is impossible for the majority to be 'not good', since if that was the case, the average would shift down until approximately half are good and half are bad.

There is one question I have for you OP: Do bad players deserve to have a good experience with the game in your eyes?

ez mental boom10/30/2018, 3:20:54 AM1 votes

That's not an unpopular opinion. That's an opinion that people use to justify their own rank and compare themselves to plat and d5 because some challenger streamer said "it's basically the same"

Khristophoros10/30/2018, 3:21:29 AM1 votes

Everyone plat+ knows they suck and thus everyone below them sucks too.

It sucks being kinda ok but lacking that extra 5-10% of skill/knowledge because that means there are still thousands of players out there who can shit on you.

Illabethe10/30/2018, 6:11:36 AM1 votes

And here I thought I would find evidence to support your Bias.

P.S. I'm a higher Elo than you <3

If you're going to take time to trash talk the concerns of players, at least cite examples and educate them as to why their complaints are weak and teach them your perspective on why those champs are NOT broken.

Wínters Dawn10/30/2018, 3:35:04 AM1 votes

A majority of players are in silver or lower. This isn't a ground breaking observation there bud

YuGiHo10/30/2018, 6:08:01 AM1 votes

Ive been playing for a while and while i believe most players are bad i think its primary because of lack of game knowledge and everyone trying to be a 1 trick now. Also while i can only speak for NA, people on average are much better at the game now than they were a few years ago.

usul120210/30/2018, 3:17:53 AM1 votes

Not good, but improving. Scarra had a pretty decent bit on it a while ago. If you look at how the player base plays now compared to years ago, it's getting better! You'll always have people complaining about yi/graves/whateverFOTMcirclejerkison, but game quality is improving, which I think is pretty cool. (tho, last paragraph could use some work. Just cause people are low elo or less skilled doesn't mean they're inherrantly wrong. Just..... Sometimes lacking. Either way, the average player may not be good yet, but we'll all get there eventually)