"I knew even if he were 20-0, that he wouldn't carry... because he's Gold II lol" -Janna
And boy was she right.
A Gold II Jax jungler somehow found himself in a game of high Plat/low Diamond players (no, he wasn't a smurf, no, his MMR wasn't high, no, he wasn't duoing with anyone, yes, he was bad at the game, with feeding KDAs on every single champion, averaging for e.g. 7.5/9.5/5.5 per game). As an aside, his moniker was that of a rapper and he mained Lucian. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Gold kid gets himself fed off the typical stupid mistakes that high Plat/low Diamond players make early game. He was at the right place at the right time, and by luck (not game knowledge) he also successfully countered the enemy jungler's every move (a mark of a good jungler, if you're high elo, you know this). I can assure you this was pure fluke but it worked in his favor.
He ends up being 7/0/2 by the 10 minute mark, Triforce completed, and we're all either going even in lane or slightly winning and feel very confident about the game's direction. "We've got this in the bag!" "Wow, we shouldn't have underestimated this Gold jungler."
But alas, mid game comes along and his "Gold" side comes out in full force. Teams start to group up and he solo wanders the enemy team's jungle (in places where high Plat/low Diamond players by second nature know are danger zones by the mid-game, 100% warded, and so on, and he throws the lead, incrementally... at this point we tell him to calm down and listen to our calls, to split bot so that the rest of us can siege mid. He didn't listen to a word we said; he insisted on making "da playz" and hammered on us for being incompetent, he took every blue buff from our mid laner because "Sorry man, I'm carrying this."
"I'm gonna need you to calm down, Jax... you're really throwing."
"STFU I'M THE ONLY ONE ON THE TEAM WHO'S DOING ANYTHING, I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO'S USING THE ADVANTAGE WE HAVE." Then we have to defend a tower and instead of "walking around from behind" to help defend, he goes from the front/side (hard to explain), but if you know what I'm talking about, it's the mistake Silver/Gold kids make all the time and get hooked by Thresh and that's that; it's the mark of a low elo player.
So, when you're playing in low Diamond elo, (even though people are still bad), every mistake you make gets increasingly costly. Teams will push that advantage and punish you for it; this Gold kid was probably not used to this because Gold kids have a very hard time closing games out, so he thought he could just continue on with his CounterStrike KDA rampage and the game would somehow close out in his favor. Not how it works. By the end of the game, all he could say was "Check my account in 2 days, I'll be Plat V. Y'all are just incompetent." Sure enough, within a couple of days I checked, and not only was he not Plat, but he had demoted to Gold III. By the way, over 600 games and still Gold III. Just let that sink in.
#GoldKidsWillBeGoldKids
