I just watched a gold game

Lowvyr·7/2/2015, 8:30:29 AM·2 votes·599 views

They were so stupid. They let Nasus get super fed. They had no idea what they were doing. They TPd for no reason. They missed tons of cs. Long story short, I'm bronze and it gave me cancer watching it. I don't know if they were just really bad Golds, but I could see the mistakes they were going to make before they made them. I'm not saying I'm better than them, because I'm probably not, but still it confused me. I knew the mistakes they were going to make before they made them. I could tell which team was going to win from 5 minutes just from tendencies that each team member had.

In other news, I brought myself up a division today by winning 7 games in a row on Aatrox jungle. I literally got that 7 times in a row and I basically carried each game. + + is pretty damn strong.

7 Comments

The Lilly7/2/2015, 9:21:16 AM1 votes

They were probably boosted Pretty common thing in most servers.

R1107/2/2015, 9:55:26 AM1 votes

If you noticed a lot of mistakes from Gold players you might be interested in watching your own games. I would recommend replaygg. I think it would be interesting to see which mistakes are being made at your level and at gold level. It would be an interesting comparison to see.

Here is a link where you can sign up to receive mails with replays of your games. http://replay.gg/

Genuwhine7/2/2015, 10:01:57 AM1 votes

golds are like the kids that got 3 out of 10 right on the test while bronze got 1 right. gold is nothing special at all.

FHMarshy7/2/2015, 1:33:40 PM1 votes

LOL buddy, use LOL replay and watch your own game. If gold games give you cancer, i can't even begin to imagine what bronze games give you. By the way, how is item 3800 good on Aatrox ??

EvilMerodach7/2/2015, 1:56:16 PM1 votes

Were you using full vision on the replay? ..cause..that can make pretty much everyone but the pros look derp.

Like- OMG WHY WOULD HE GO INTO THAT BRUSH? It was 'obvious' 3 of them were in there.

But, no, it's not obvious, you're just using full vision hacks. Try watching more golds, but only use 1 side vision. Or better yet, 1 side vision and only follow 1 guy, it makes it a lot more tunneled (and a lot more like your own games) and much harder to see their 'obvious' mistakes. And even 1 side vision, following 1 guy, still have to keep in mind that you, as the spectator, don't have to worry about a lot of details, like cs'ing and gold and mana management and cooldowns. So you can spend the whole game thinking about map control and action choices, while they have to focus more on their person stat details.

And I think the main difference between bronze and gold is minor mechanical skills, not map control or decision making. And probably a slight amount better at teamwork/going with the flow. (EG: you know getting dragon right now is 100% better than pushing mid, but 3/4 of your team mates push mid, now pushing mid with 4 or 5 is 100% better than trying to solo dragon while 3 push mid. Bronzie jungler think- NO, MUST KILL DRAGON, DRAGON BETTER...and...die to enemy jungler and enemy jungler gets dragon, while team mates also die from overextending mid 3 vs 4. Gold jungler think- DAMNIT DRAGON BETTER....but team is pushing mid so I have to follow them so we at least won't get aced from fighting split up, and end up with 3 of your team dying for killing 2 of theirs, bad, but not as bad as the bronzie outcome)

TL;DR- Gold is probably 10% better at landing/dodging skillshots, playing vs people who are also 8-12% better at landing skillshots, so, as a spectator, it doesn't look much different than your own games, especially if you're not limited by fog of war while spectating.