Bringing up elo in a discussion actually is a viable thing to do

a special one··2 votes·609 views

ELO = representation of your game knowledge and skill argument = representation of game knowledge

If someone is higher than somebody, his knowledge is almost certainly higher, thus what they say related to the game is more likely to be true. I know i'll get downvotes, but just wanted to clear some things out.

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Deep Terror Nami8 votes

Rivington as a shoutcaster has arguably some of the best game knowledge in order to do his job, but was Silver (not sure what he's at now though). Appealing to authority and resorting to personal attacks because of rank doesn't actually support an argument.

Sound Voltex1 votes

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Rivington as a shoutcaster has arguably some of the best game knowledge in order to do his job

What the hell no? He's been known to spew bronze mindset since beginning of LCS. Quit fanboying

Deep Terror Nami4 votes

This comment really had very little to do with Rivington. Idk what he did to you, but chill.

Sound Voltex

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This comment really had very little to do with Rivington. Idk what he did to you, but chill.

What do you mean very little? Let's not avoid what you meant. To put it briefly, you're bronze, rivington is bronze, bronzies tends to agree on the same thing and bronzies are always wrong [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Sukishoo2 votes

He's gold 1 right now.

a special one1 votes

well yeah, that is not the usual case because thats his job

The Poetic Zed6 votes

You can have a shit ton of knowledge about the game and not be any good at playing it.

a special one1 votes

You can, but that's rare

Risk of Fate2 votes

Except knowledge doesn't work like that, not in the slightest. Yes, you may have knowledge, but I can guarantee that everyone is going to have a blind spot somewhere. In addition, just because you know that in order to do that, you may not have the skill or dexterity for it.

Let's say for example my computer programming friend. He's super extremely intelligent and works on a website, usually cleaning it and creating new applications. However, he's only proficient in WebSocket and Some Java (I don't rightly remember the name of the language, but I'll hazard it was Apex or similar)

Anywho, whenever there's some problems, he used to have me find bugs and suggest fixes. Now, I'm an idiot to computers so why should I help? Well, because I tend to stumble over bugs or stupidly suggest things which will get his mind rolling. We have two separate thought processes and both compliment each other. Just because I don't know computers doesn't mean I'm unable to at least get him to see a different side.

ELO just says you're good at climbing, I can guarantee I've seen Diamonds who've taken advice from Silvers because they were missing pieces after patch updates.

Primaquarius2 votes

Unless you use rank as an excuse to downsize one's arguement

a special one1 votes

well im often on my mobile and im lazy to explain why its wrong, so i just say ''youre wrong noob''

Sukishoo2 votes

No, it's really not.

It's like saying "I'm on NA! We're where Riot actually is, so we're better than you who is off in EUW!"

Big Lincoln2 votes

you can't say this in a board dominated by low elo lol

it's funny how they use mastery points to validate themselves because they can't point to rank though xd

a special one1 votes

yeah thats the dumbest shit ever. idc if youre a bronze vi main with 200k mastery points, any high elo player understands vi better than you

Maximum Morde1 votes

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ELO = representation of your game knowledge and skill

No, it's actually a representation of how many ranked games you've played and how sucessful you are in them. Not quite the same thing.

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If someone is higher than somebody, his knowledge is almost certainly higher, thus what they say related to the game is more likely to be true.

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Season 6 Dynamic Boost says hi.

There are times when ELO is relevant and times where it is not.

Escheton1 votes

Right. Except when people judge you on your ´elo`while they played 2000 ranked games and you played like 20 because Mao skin.

a special one1 votes

idk my ranked games are about 200

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