The horrible part of being a high elo player

I urgot about it·9/27/2015, 12:16:54 AM·11 votes·1,880 views

When you go into normals with a team of your friends who are lower ranked, which results in you going against lower ranked players, they will mock you and say how dumb you are for dying to them. Then proceed to ask if you elo boosted This has happened so many times and even on boards I have people tell me my points are invalid because I'm high elo Why? Aren't we all humans first? :( Edit: thanks for cheering me up and helping me understand how to deal with this and why people do it, I guess not all lower elo are really rude to higher elo ^^

74 Comments

BakedLotion9/27/2015, 12:17:51 AM7 votes

Bro why did u get elo boosted?? reported

Mimy9/27/2015, 12:42:04 AM4 votes

You're lucky you can get higher ranked.. alls I want to be is silver but I keep losing..T-T

Anyways.. Don't let them get to you.. We bronzies have an inferiority complex.. and we may be somewhat jealous..

See where I'm going? Anyways.. I'm sure you're fine.

#Though I have to say it's very nice of your to play with your low elo friends!

Trust me.. I have a friend who's Plat 1... and althought I can never beat him 1v1.. he still plays with me.. Sometimes he dies.. but it happens.. you can't expect him to go full power in a bronzie normal game.. xD

Katarina 40/0

^ Would be him if he perhaps actually tried.. probably.. I may be over exaggerating.. xD

COWmanLord9/27/2015, 1:41:45 AM2 votes

I have had this experience just being in gold 4 playing against people in silver. It was almost funny though because a few member of the enemy team seemed genuinely upset at them beating us.

But seriously though always remember:

I may have beaten the diamond player in lane but they:

might be playing one of their worse roles
Might just be having an off game
Might just not be really trying that hard

Except for that one time I won a 4v5 playing ap bard mid against a diamond veigar because of mid laner never showed up. I got first blood with coin and a couple of pots then proceeded to solo kill him again and set up several ganks for our jugnler. That just shouldn't have happened.

Xonra9/27/2015, 6:30:01 AM2 votes

While I 100% agree with your point (I have high ranked friends that deal with the same issues), I'd feel bad if you weren't in multiple threads talking down to players in lower elos simply for being in lower elos. You may not think you do it, but you've done it enough that I recognize your name as someone who has done it in at least 2 previous threads I was in.

So, sorry, can't feel bad for someone lower finally giving your shit for being higher, as funny as that is given how I've seen you talk to people lower just for being lower elo.

Kikirino9/27/2015, 8:46:48 AM2 votes

I have this issue as well and I am only plat.

I play normals with my unranked/bronze friends as a 5 man premade. One friend in particular likes to support me if I adc. adc is my worst role and if we don't stomp in lane I get asked how much it costs to boost to plat. One match they talked so much shit I told them I would make a custom, invite all of them and then play my main role and show them why I am plat. They were all mid silver/ low gold against me and my bronze/unranked friends. I picked jungle, my main role, and hold nothing back and win in less than 20 minutes. They didn't even get to surrender.

I do not enjoy doing that though. I play normals because I want to have fun with my friends and not have to try hard but when people do nothing but talk shit and say you are boosted over and over it is hard to not want to show them why they are stuck in low elo.

TurtleStacks9/27/2015, 2:29:15 AM2 votes

Not saying its you but yea your elo caused this problem. I love gutter stomping diamonds in norms and talking shit. "Oh I thought you knew the depths of mechanics and everything I, a silver, can not possibly fathom about this game." It's just too much fun.

GOD OF HEMTAl9/27/2015, 12:38:30 AM2 votes

youre just bad

GigglingAngel9/27/2015, 9:57:00 PM1 votes

I once faced off against a Heimerdinger (who was Platinum) when I was also Heimerdinger, and I was Silver at the time.

I beat him 3/1 in lane and got his tower, winning lane, and I felt proud. I said to my friend (who was also Platinum), "I actually did good against a Platinum when we both played teh same champ. I feel good, man!" He replied, "Dude, I hate it when low elos brag about beating higher elos in normals." We haven't played together since.

Just because people are higher elo, it doesn't mean they get to automatically act superior all the time. It's disgusting. They also don't need to take offense when someone is generally happy about doing good against another, as long as they don't actually offend the other with petty insults. I rarely see people go "for a higher elo guy, you suck hard" on the enemy team. In truth, I actually see more of that on my own team when a team member happens to do badly.

Malix Farwin9/27/2015, 10:51:47 PM1 votes

Well when i beat a plat who didn't even know that item 3102 bubble can be seen by enemy team and can cancel out CC, it makes me wonder sometimes because that actually happened.