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As someone who's in low elo, i think i'd imagine myself having less fun in higher divisions

Ben Sharpio·3/15/2016, 5:35:41 PM·21 votes·3,058 views

I don't know what it is about low elo that makes me enjoy it so much. I think it's the fact that we're all equally good/equally bad (Besides when the occasional smurf comes around). I think that in low elo, there's so many more fun aspects to look forward to. I know many people think that low elo is "hell" but i think that above silver 5, it's actually really fun and there aren't really any extreme cases of toxicity. I believe the REAL toxicity of people telling you to kill yourself and cut yourself is low bronze (4-5). I've seen it before.

But nonetheless, in my opinion, i can't picture myself having as much fun as i do in low elo. What do we get here?

-champion diversity. Champion diversity is one of the more important ones for me. It keeps the game interesting and exciting even if the person isn't good with them. In higher elo videos i pretty much see the same 10 champions with the same 6 bans. It's pretty much a rush to see who gets who. Whoever gets the most OP champion wins kind of case. I also think that it's because in low elo we can actually play whoever we want to play without suffering from any repercussions like counterpicks and stuff like that. I've seen yoricks, tarics, jayce players, casseiopia, rumble, urgot, you name it, youll find it here.

-Mastery diversity. I know in higher elo there is generally just thunderlords on everyone besides the support. But i generally see everyone with a different keystone on and sometimes no keystone at all. It's interesting to see how other people just genuinely enjoy using other masteries besides thunderlords. Small things like this just make me appreciate the game even more.

-LONG ASS GAMES. There has been a lot of threads about people saying the games end in stomps or the game ends before 20 minutes, or that we should be able to surrender at 15 minutes. These types of things are pretty much nonexistent in low elo. I mean, there are absolute STOMPS that happen once every 10 games or so, but other than that, games for me last a good 40-50 minutes. And there are what people know as comebacks!! I know you high elo players miss those XD. I see it happening all of the time. Throughout the 40-50 minute game times, people have time to catch up with their item builds and stabilize their gold deficit. How can you go wrong with this?

-Post game chat. I think people really undervalue this component of the game. Post chat is actually one of the things that make you WANT to play another game. Think about it, (all of my low elo friends) when you win a well-deserved game (like the comebacks i was talking about earlier) where do you discuss your awesome victory? In the post-game chat. You celebrate and pop champagne with your teammates while the other team says "OMFG" "wTF" "NA team" and flames eachother while you have the time of your lives. Things like this don't really exist in higher elo. The game finishes? People leave immediately, and don't talk about ANYTHING that happened during the game. Honours in high elo? Wtf is that? Legends say a good 3 honours occur per day in high elo, whereas in low elo people honour for friendly, or helpful all of the time. Think about all of those times someone has said "honour for all" after a win haha. I don't know, i think its awesome.

I'm not saying that good is bad... or am i? I'm saying that you should appreciate the smaller things in lower divisions. Am i missing anything?

**What do you enjoy about low elo? ** HIGH ELO PLAYERS: WHAT DO YOU HATE ABOUT BEING IN HIGH ELO?!?

48 Comments

Potato Doc3/15/2016, 7:00:02 PM8 votes

Everyone thinking there is only one way to play a champion.

Like I love playing tigerdyr, everyone thinks im trolling because 'pheonixdyr' is the way to go right now

TarroI3/15/2016, 7:54:27 PM3 votes

The thing I hate most about plat is the fact that everyone thinks they're the next Faker or Bjergsen or some s!@#, when they're the ones throwing the game. For my last few games I have had awful luck (Enemy team being plat+ players in terms of quality, and my team being the "gg surrender at 20" when the score is 11-11) and it really took it's toll on my LP. I have to agree with the fact that mostly the same 10-15 champs get picked, and you get the occasional swain or malzahar because the teammate had 0 f*@#s to give that game about their enemy laner. I know I picked Veigar when I just couldn't deal with swain as a Yasuo player.

What I do miss from low elo: -Easiness of games -Able to pick Yasuo and freelo carry -Enemies have no clue what to do against Azir, so he's freelo too. -Watching people dive me and mess up horribly and give me triple kills

What I don't miss about low elo: -Nobody knows what any champion does. They're like "where dafuq did that kog damage come from" when a kogmaw has his 2 item power spike. -No victorious skin q.q still yet to get one -The Easiness. The challenge in gold 1+ is there, and now it's somewhat significant. Your mistakes matter and you can legitimately learn from them, as opposed to being able to flash in 1v5 and get out without the enemy team realizing that you just went in 1v5 and killing you for your mistake.

I heard that Diamond 5-4 is basically bronze since it's mixed with boosted players and truly diamond elo players, but I don't have the experience to make a statement on that. Either way, something to look forward to :p

[slayer-jinx-wink]

Dunk Everything3/15/2016, 6:48:16 PM3 votes

What I hate the most in my elo right now ( Plat ) is the fact that people give up and afk so easily. I am not gonna lie but when i was in silver, I used to have a lot more fun and now its just gg you didnt ban yi or gg they picked udyr im afk ff 20.

Tyrone Lannister3/15/2016, 7:30:06 PM2 votes

Clown fiesta boys :D

StealthyWolf523/16/2016, 11:05:17 PM2 votes

The only thing that happens in games that reach above 30 minutes (in my experience) are either a slow ass game where nweither team wants to die or boh teams blowing eachother up and not enough players survive the insane burst to do anything so it goes on forever, that or death timers get so long so quick a support and jungler can take out 2 turrets, an inhib, and both nexus turrets before team respawns, sometimes they just win. (obviously situational)

Lugg3/15/2016, 8:51:34 PM1 votes

Play a few games with some Plat and higher people. You will change your opinion really quick. It's so satisfying not to have to worry about having some idiot on your team trolling or feeding.

Low ELO is pretty much torture anymore.

QjTHqo3RTq3/15/2016, 10:36:53 PM1 votes

I would like to say a couple things.

Silver is toxic, multiple games of no junglers before draft mode, and I still get shoved into roles just because the person higher than me wanted my secondary.

Bronze, is a living hellhole that you need to carry yourself out of, and you should do yourself a favor by muting everyone once the game starts.

I hate low elo

Spacesuit Spiff3/15/2016, 11:01:34 PM1 votes

I like high elo because strategic teamplay is actually a thing. But its a lot more restrictive in other ways.

dr lichdeath3/15/2016, 11:19:29 PM1 votes

meh low elo aint that good 2 games ago i saw an udyr priotise scuttle above the dragon... in ranked... while the enemy was aced he took so long to kill scuttle that the enemy jungler came back alive ran to drake killed the udyr and then took drake obviously we lost that game

nealgoogs3/15/2016, 11:19:32 PM1 votes

i hate the long ass games tho rather be quick stomps and move on

Robbit Mang3/15/2016, 11:26:23 PM1 votes

https://i.gyazo.com/f1b2259574e20da8a73bf45d6674119d.png

not necessarily a god but this is what it puts me against...

yeah i enjoy getting a toxic blitz/janna player every 3 games that ruins my day. Ive never been below silver II but id imagine at least in bronze people wouldnt expect you to be a mechanical god at your champion.

Exalomaniac3/16/2016, 12:50:59 AM1 votes

i hate the long games that have become much more apparent lately. the feeling of doing a bad fight or knowing that you just threw the game is goddamn awful. i had a 50 minute game recently who we lost because they had a better late game/stall comp and when they won that last fight, the whole game felt unrewarding and dull. also dont forget the strategic decisions. one bad call for baron and you lost the game. (plat 1)

Surge063/16/2016, 1:40:56 AM1 votes

What I like is the ability to build whatever I want and play whatever I want (unless it's support l). I can do anything, play champions that almost never appear in the LCS. My team usually won't care. The enemies usually don't care, and sometimes get stomper because they never see some champs. AD Teemo mid? Kindred top? Kalista jungle? No-one cares. As long as you don't feed or "ks" then low elo is super relaxed.

JerulEon3/16/2016, 2:09:39 AM1 votes

The "raging" is different across elo's.

In a game I was playing with Plats and high Golds. The two Plat members were literally bitching so hard in chat and one afk'd in base because the other guy wouldn't apologize. He later went on to say that he didn't care that we lost because he had "so many other accounts in diamond". LMAO

Higher elo players tend to be more arrogant when they flame but lower elo players usually just blame their teammates and move on -- just in my personal experience.

Sammystorm3/16/2016, 3:18:41 AM1 votes

Being in gold is a love hate relationship. On one hand the games are more competitive which I like. On the other hand comebacks are super rare because people actually know what to do with leads. People also know enough about the game to really make jack ass comments that are somewhat based on fact. Unlike low elo where most of the shit is just made up.

Bladerunner77773/16/2016, 4:31:11 AM1 votes

The people in Bronze 5 aren't from this planet...

I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe...

Dengeden3/16/2016, 6:32:00 AM1 votes

When I chalk up the courage and energy to play ranked, I always enjoy it. The intensity of knowing that every little bit counts can be quite thrilling.

Buuuuut I'd like my elo more if people didn't often think the only way to play out post-laning phase was by playing ARAM. Winning or losing doesn't feel very rewarding if it was decided by a 10+ minute siege...

I don't think diversity goes down or up with elo btw. Although it might be true that you want fast early/mid game champions as your carries for more consistent wins. You're right about Masteries tho, they're very role specific.

Serika Zero3/16/2016, 11:27:45 AM1 votes

Don't know about your NA server but here on EuW:

champion diversity: exists in plat and dia just fine (even tho I'm just plat, I can easily see tons of different champions picked in dia as well)

mastery diversity: there exist champions who have choices and others for whom 1 mastery is always better than anything else. And no, that's not thunderlords. ADCs run fervor of battle (Jhin deathfire touch and others Thunderlords), mid laners run thunderlords (or deathfire touch), top laners run Grasp of the Undying (or thunderlords or fervor), junglers run strength of ages (or thunderlords), support run thunderlords (or bond of stone, or windblessing). If you see someone that either has no keystone mastery, or the wrong keystone you know they got the wrong masteries and its more easy for you to win lane/game. There is some diversity regarding masteries, but some champions are the best with a certain mastery, not using that one is like losing the game on purpose. Even so, nobody gives a fuck if you got the wrong mastery (other than your lane opponent).

LONG ASS GAMES: not my style, I don't like 1 hour games. But generally most games for me last from 30 to 40 mins. Rarely 20-30 mins games. Closing games is still difficult in soloq as everyone has a different opinion on how to close games.

Post game chat: either "report xxx for" either .... nothing at all either gg team, nice play xxxx (Team mates talking to each other). or the random salty person like me (nice camp bro, you sure are pro)

We don't really talk about the game in end screen of ranked as we either know what we did right or know what we did wrong. There's no point to discuss it. However, its true that we often don't use the honor feature, as it is useless.

So, I don't know if its just NA things. But its not true for EuW at least. Unless your definition of higher elo is master and challenger only. Then I don't know what happens in those games.

Rockm Sockm3/16/2016, 4:28:48 PM1 votes

My experiences in silver from a fairly new player.

  1. Everyone thinks they are faker and feeds.
  2. No one can play from behind.
  3. People always 1/2v3/4. It is always a team fighting comp trying to jungle fight a pick assassination comp.
  4. Maximum salt and no accountability for there actions.
  5. Zero sideline control/slow push/wave manipulation.

I am honestly wondering if gold will be better or if I should just tank back down to have more fun until these people move on.

Silver does have a lot of decent players who remain silver cause they can only duel and are toxic.

ditzyandpetite3/16/2016, 11:13:19 PM1 votes

Next time, I'd appreciate it if there was a tl;dr section! Thanks!

DREADN0UGHT3/18/2016, 5:31:54 AM1 votes

People tell other to commit suicide in all elos. I've seen it in bronze 5. Still seee it in Gold 5.

bill843/19/2016, 9:14:16 PM1 votes

I am bronze 3, and I really don't think that there is too much toxicity in bronze. In my last ten games, I really cannot remember one where there was a troll or flamer. Also, I have consistently had teams that will play the game out, at least until a few inhibs are gone, so I consistantly get 30-40 minute games.

ValyrianBlade3/15/2016, 7:29:31 PM1 votes

I think it really depends on how good you are at the game.

I regularly play with high golds to diamonds in my normal matches. I find normal matches a lot more fun because of this. I can depend on my teammates to make better plays and they're more challenging and exciting. Leads don't rapidly snowball out of control very often. Teams make good decisions on objectives and rotations.

In ranked, I'm playing mostly with mid-high silver people and a few low golds. Sometimes I can't depend on my allies to do the most basic stuff. Sometimes I legit lose lane to these silver players (I mean, the actual mechanical and skirmishing skill level difference between silver and diamond is almost nothing, it's lots of other factors that make the difference) and when that happens my teams seem to get a little out of control if no one else is getting ahead. Maybe it's just the attitude in ranked vs normals, but I find the higher elo players I have in my normal matches are a lot more understanding of falling behind in lane and helping keep you relevant in the game in these cases. In silver ranked, the team basically abandons you and scapegoats you and just tries to all solo carry whenever someone falls behind.

Also, I think it has to do with your playstyle.

Do you play an assassin? You'll like low elo. Do you play super snowbally champions? Low elo. Etc... I prefer a passive playstyle. I could care less about going 0/0/0 in lane, I just want to out CS my lane opponent by 30-40 in the early game. I want to win on strategic decision making. I don't want to win or lose depending on whether the enemy jungler is nearby when I'm about to go all in. In low elo that doesn't work though, if you're not getting yourself fed you can't snowball enough to carry the people on your team that are dying. I can't count the number of times I'm winning lane pretty hard and really bullying my lane opponent, only to get ganked right as I'm about to all in for the kill and suddenly be behind in lane.

shroomorc3/15/2016, 7:31:21 PM1 votes

The one thing that high elo players will hate is that they have to play with the same people over and over again

Kerchner123/15/2016, 8:36:45 PM1 votes

Hey SKT T1 SION, do you remember me? We played a game over a month ago and I said that I knew you from the boards. You are still the only person that I have ever played with or against that I have seen on the boards. It's just so weird.

Gotodead3/15/2016, 8:44:28 PM1 votes

high elo = toxic people purposely trying to lose

low elo = people accidentally losing

but hard to tell because im biased, obviously its more fun to win 85% of my games in silver-plat then go 60% in diamond. And I get tons of quadras/pentas down there too. Its fun to see the countless mistakes low elo make too.