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A rant to all High elo players.

GamerGoodies·8/24/2015, 9:48:52 PM·85 votes·7,034 views
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So lately I've been coming across a few diamonds and plats saying the usual following to me:

"Since I am a higher elo then you, you have to respect me and all elo tiers that are above you." It literally takes me a good 10 seconds to realize that this guy was serious, and I get incredibly annoyed and pissed about it.

Your rank is your achievement to what YOU can accomplish. It is not a placement to whom you have to bow to and who you make bow to. So what if you are diamond 2. Who cares!? You should be proud of yourself that you achieved so many wins from either yourself or with your friends. Instead of "asking" people to respect you. Why don't you actually EARN respect, by helping lower elo's with advice, or by being nice and friendly? It's not hard dammit! If you are the type that keeps to yourself then that's fine, just don't expect people to hand you a plate full of respect just because of how many wins you grabbed in ranked.

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Deep Terror Nami8/24/2015, 9:53:58 PM49 votes

Diamond rank in LoL is probably their greatest achievement in life if they act like that. Don't get riled up, just feel sorry for them.

Weathered8/24/2015, 11:40:23 PM27 votes

(I call mid first in blind pick, most other roles are then called)

Guy comes in - ( "oh sheet I don't want to support..." ) "I'm a Plat surf give me mid"

My response - "If you're plat that means you can play all the roles"

Gets them every time

Only Play Darius8/24/2015, 11:53:34 PM21 votes

Yea i'm tired of getting rank bashed too. It's bad enough on boards, but now it's extended to games where I fail a gank on a Gold 4 Riven (my normals mmr is higher than my ranked) and they will type in /all "Bronze ganks are hilarious" and it just demoralizes the fuck out of me.

Lugg8/24/2015, 11:46:17 PM19 votes

Some Diamond players don't understand the "You have to give respect to get respect" concept.

PonderousSealion8/25/2015, 4:20:37 AM16 votes

I know you guys are going to downvote me to oblivion, but that's fine.

I don't automatically demand respect as a diamond player, but if you're bronze and you're trying to argue a point to me then I am damn sure going to pull rank as an argument. Nowhere else does someone who is a novice win an argument with someone who is considered extremely good- their argument is validated by their clear amount of experience and game knowledge, which is displayed by that little icon that says "diamond" on their profile.

And while I'm at it, getting to diamond has been the absolute worst thing I could do to enjoy normal games. Anytime I lose lane, fuck up a gank, or move one hair out of place, I get asked where I bough my account and how I got diamond if I'm such a shitter. Low elos talking shit to high elos is just as prevalent as what you're complaining about. I'm getting fucking sick of these circlejerk threads (ADCs are assholes, support power!, high elos should put up with everyone's bullshit, etc) that just exist to stereotype a specific part of the community. You guys are causing just as much negativity as the people you call out, and you're really hurting the situation if anything.

Ignoring something someone says purely based on rank isn't acceptable, but you bronze players need to get it through your heads that diamond players are just plain better than you at league, and their opinions should be weighted for more, just as a challenger's opinion is worth much more than my own.

My goal really isn't to make anyone feel bad based on their rank, but at the same time I'm not going to sit here and let you guys perpetrate that high elos are doing all the bullshitting.

Dingly Donuts8/25/2015, 1:06:11 AM11 votes

Well when I was good player I had the flip side of that, low elos think that just because I was master I could carry a game and never make a mistake. Everyone diamond+ knows the "lol this guy boosted" comment. Or when we try to help people just tell us to eat it. After awhile you get cynical.

Ariel the Cruel8/25/2015, 5:01:50 AM6 votes

The truth is, you're all scrubs. Ghet gude before you try to form an opinion.

~Unranked master race.

TheVishual8/25/2015, 4:55:36 PM4 votes

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So lately I've been coming across a few diamonds and plats saying the usual following to me:

"Since I am a higher elo then you, you have to respect me and all elo tiers that are above you." It literally takes me a good 10 seconds to realize that this guy was serious, and I get incredibly annoyed and pissed about it.

Your rank is your achievement to what YOU can accomplish. It is not a placement to whom you have to bow to and who you make bow to. So what if you are diamond 2. Who cares!? You should be proud of yourself that you achieved so many wins from either yourself or with your friends. Instead of "asking" people to respect you. Why don't you actually EARN respect, by helping lower elo's with advice, or by being nice and friendly? It's not hard dammit! If you are the type that keeps to yourself then that's fine, just don't expect people to hand you a plate full of respect just because of how many wins you grabbed in ranked.

I don't think they meant respect them as in worship them, but usually you should put more weight to a higher elo's opinion about the game because they have played at a higher level and usually have a lot more experience

gg wp lol8/25/2015, 2:57:44 PM4 votes

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PoopLoopist8/25/2015, 6:13:08 PM3 votes

Lel, this thread is hilarious. I'm sorry but if you play this game and play ranked then you obviously DO care about how your performance is on this game compared to others. If you didn't, you would be playing normals. The fact that you feel the need to drag someone down for being able to accomplish what you cannot is the truly sad thing, Not being in the top 1% of MILLIONS of people who play this game. I would take pride in that as well, beating out MILLIONS of other players is no small accomplishment. This game has lots of thought and strategy put into it and to be one of the best at it is actually quite an accomplishment. You are the same people who say "its not real life" and "its just a game" so that you don't have to face up to the fact that you want to be good at this game and simply are not. It is nothing more than your ego protecting itself.

Guess what. It is a game. A game played by millions of people. A game that exsists in real life and people get payed and win real money to play it. Achieving a high rank in said game is REALLY a REAL accomplishment in the REAL world. All you people who justify your shitty plays and shitty elo with "its just a game" are just lying to yourselves. If thats how you feel stop playing ranked and go play normals where you can fuck around every game and not have to justify it to yourselves because you are mature enough to admit when you are bad at something but enjoy playing it anyway.

macromite8/25/2015, 1:24:55 AM3 votes

if you ever see someone telling you to respect them or rank, say you are a wood V smurf. wood V trumps all.

Mecha MaIphite8/25/2015, 4:55:16 PM3 votes

Why all high elo players? There are pricks in diamond+ just like every other elo, but that doesn't mean you need to generalize.

GundayMonday8/25/2015, 5:15:54 PM3 votes

Most diamond players (me included) are shit at the game anyway. Master Tier and up gets respect imo.

ScowlingGusStraw8/25/2015, 8:58:44 AM2 votes

Seriously anybody who does this is a fucking asshole. I have a well paying job with a good education, i support people financially. What have high ranking players actually done to earn respect? I mean sure a high rank to have in a game is nice and all but it shows nothing besides your competency within the game. Which is nothing to be respected, it can be admired and you can learn from a higher ranking player and become better, but that does not necessarily mean that they deserve respect from the get go. Who the hell knows who is behind the screen, might be a platinum player during the day but a GIGALO at night.

Also a lot of high ranking ppl are dicks from the get go.

Fear Popo8/25/2015, 9:57:26 AM2 votes

It's really not cool to lump all the higher elo players in like that, we aren't ALLLL huge dicks.

S2C2Xd9KOy8/25/2015, 4:42:51 AM1 votes

Platinum players aren't good. I sometimes get matched into like low silver games when Im gold 3 instead of a gold/plat game (i play during the night quite often so that might contribute to why theres less lobbies to put me in) and immediately people are like oh shit gold 3 gg and ill be camped all game when Im really not a lot better than them, just like a plat player isn't much better than me. Some diamond players are actually really good, but thats no reason to respect someone.