Just curious, as people are saying that the average skill of players has gone up over the years, if a Silver player today were to get hold of a time machine somehow, and go back to season 1 to play ranked, where do you think they would end up?
As someone who has gotten hold of a time machine before, I can honestly say that bronze will always be bronze no matter what time period you're in.
This isn't an opinion this is fact.
Season 1 Bronze was top 25% of players. Today gold V is around top 35% of players.
Silver players wouldn't even be bronze in season 1.
hard to say cuz every season is like a difference game.
i mean shit i use to be bronze and i am clearly better then that now. if i knew what i know now then when i was bronze i would of climbed alot easier
Bronze, or honestly even sub-bronze unranked.
The game has gotten easier.
You don't have to time dragons, know jungle spawn times, and flash was about twice as strong then.
Dying rapidly reduced how much gold you were worth, so blindly killing your opponent over and over again didn't confer as much benefit then as it does now and shutdowns went up to 1000 gold. So getting too far ahead could be a folly if they had a chance at coming back.
Silver back then was the point where like...you actually knew what was happening in the game and were a bit above the average (I wanna say it was like 1200-1400 Elo?) Bronze was 1000-1200 I think, and 1200 is true average.
So anyway, yeah, now that silver 3-4 is the true average range, and there was a hell of a lot more to think about rather than just eliminating your opponent repeatedly, they'd probably be lower tier, because they'd still be terrible at farming, and that meant more back then than it does now.
If you put an average silver player in today's game into s1, they'd probably actually become respectably high ranked due to meta knowledge that didn't quite exist back then when everyone was taking Ashe mid.
I mean, if they were a silver player who played champions that existed in S1, they'd probably be able to pioneer a new meta.
