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Because you are bronze..

Wiitendo··5 votes·1,447 views

I see a lot of people say. 'Bronze scrubs' or 'My teammates are bronze idiots'

just because some person is in bronze does not make him a bad player, I don't care what people make you think. (especially all them youtube videos bashing them) there are a lot of players who did their placement test, maybe they got placed in bronze (because it is a common placement) and they never touched ranked again,

maybe because they don't take the game serious enough to continue ranking, or maybe they just want to have fun playing the game and getting good at it with out climbing into the rank system.

so really they could be in bronze with a skill level of silver, gold, plat, or even diamond. something that really bothers me when making this kinds of topics, or any other person making topics about item balance or champion balance.

you see a response like:

'This kid is just a bronze newb he does not understand, So because he is in this made up division he is not worthy of this discussion? how are we suppose to learn? We where all newb players once, we did not know about this game at some point in time.

and now we look at a person in this forums/threads trying to make a point or simply ask a question, and we just say that he is a bronze newb and down vote him.. but we offer no answer. Just remember that somebody was thinking this about you when you was a newb also. A bronze player does not make him a bad player.. but thank you for putting us down. and letting us know where we stand in this community.

Now excuse me while I go have fun playing league. Wish you the best climbing up!

27 Comments

redniwediS3 votes

In my opinion using bronze as an adjective describes a particular style of bad play that anyone with experience would recognize as being obviously a bad move. I know my friends and I use it that way to describe each other when we make an obvious mistake. It helps keep the mood light during a tough match.

The problem is some people can't make the distinction between bronze as an adjective and the rank. Everyone makes a bronze play once in a while, even challenger tier people, but that doesn't mean people with the bronze rank necessarily make them all the time. You can have near perfect play making ability without understanding basic concepts like CSing, situational build paths, and game closing strategies.

Again it's only my opinion, but while bronze is a term that will always be with League it doesn't have to be used in a way that looks down on others. Hopefully a few people find your thread and take it to heart.

Wiitendo1 votes

Thank you for taking the time to respond, a word to the wise indeed.

Caezium3 votes

I view bronze as the start to playing the game, that a lot of people go through. Some people skip this phase of League completely because they have played mechanically challenging games or grand strategy games with high success.

I agree with what you say. Bronze is a derogatory term only because the people who can skip the phase completely can't fathom why someone could ever be stuck there. Bronze players aren't evil, they simply aren't really playing the whole game.

Nerfing certain champions because of bronze is however, a fools task. They will eventually get better and understand the game more hopefully in most cases.

Wiitendo1 votes

I agree with you completely, thank you for taking the time to respond.

Angry Monster2 votes

or they are bronze cause they are actually bad.

The medium entry point is silver.

Wiitendo2 votes

Did you know a majority of league community is Bronze? Should we label them all bad?

Angry Monster2 votes

did you know less than 22 % ARE BRONZE? 44% ARE SILVER. 22 % are gold ect...

heres the link http://www.lolsummoners.com/stats/na

please stop lying to your self.

Wiitendo2 votes

How is this stats any better? 22% of the community is bad?

lets stop trying to justify this crap...

Angry Monster1 votes

Yes 22% of the community is bad. Almost 75% of the player base is better than a bronze player. Being at the bottom does mean your abd

Wiitendo2 votes

Carrying my self out of bronze as we speak, with a 'support'... I 'will' progress and become better as time tells. however your attitude against other bronzies will never change. like many others we know our limits regardless of rank and we will try our best to do better.

Thank you for taking the time to reply, enjoy the rest of your day.

Angry Monster1 votes

I wish you luck in getting out. Just cause some one is currently bad does not mean they can not improve.

Mecha MaIphite1 votes

Nobody is going to talk to a bronze player like that unless they're actually doing something stupid. I've had a lot of games where a bronze player cooperated with the team, or even in some cases carried a bit. But I've also had more than enough where a player single-handedly threw a game, and that is when people start getting toxic.

It happens at almost all levels of play, "bronze" just happens to be one of the insults used in yours.

Wiitendo2 votes

is this not my point? for you it can be silver, for others gold.

The message remains the same.

Maester Seymour1 votes

Ok, first I want to debunk this statement:

*** so really they could be in bronze with a skill level of silver, gold, plat, or even diamond. something that really bothers me when making this kinds of topics, or any other person making topics about item balance or champion balance.***

No. Perhaps for Silver, maybe early Gold , but if you're a Plat/Diamond level player the difference you can make on your own in a Bronze game is so huge I can't begin to explain it. That's why Diamond players make smurfs and get them to Plat/Diamond in a couple of weeks. Moving on.

League is not a new game. It's been out for 5 years now. As such, being in Bronze at this time of the game's lifespan means you are bad at the game, either because you haven't improved enough since you started playing, or because you're new to this and naturally lack knowledge and mechanical skill. This is not automatically a negative thing. As you said, some people just like enjoying the game and don't care to learn the skills needed to become better at it, and that's just fine. Truth is League is a very, VERY HARD game to learn and almost impossible to master, which means that a lot of people won't bother.

Having said all that, I haven't seen this happening. Downvoting people because they're bronze or because they're bronze and asked a question. Do you have examples?

Unless the question is something that you can easily find on a League wiki page or with a google search I don't see why it would be downvoted just because the person asking it is Bronze. On the other hand, if you're asking people to explain about more advanced topics (specific team comps, sieging, split-pushing) in an irrelevant thread I'd downvote that too as that's not the place to ask such things (imo).

But the downvoting would be because "this is not the place", not because "this is a question asked by a Bronze player".

I'm not sure where this massive "community injustice" that you mention is happening (in forums, in-game it's just flaming and the person is 99% a bad player themselves).

Wiitendo1 votes

there is nothing to debunk here, You do not debunk opinions... we simply try to have answers to the situation.

Thank you for the reply.

Drunk Rummate1 votes

can confirm.

i got shit talked a lot this season for being low silver. i placed into silver 3 and decayed into silver 5 before they removed season decay. i managed to make it to gold in less than 60 ranked games all towards the end of the season because i wanted the morgana skin, so clearly i am not a silver player. yet people still felt a need to tell me how bad i was all year because i was in silver 5 simply due to inactivity.

Wiitendo1 votes

It happens, I am glad to hear you have made it to gold this season, I myself is currently working very hard to do so myself (running out of time) I love morgana! she was my first champion ever played when I first started LOL all because she was free that week..

Have fun in league, Wish you luck climbing higher!

CrimsonRakan1 votes

Point 1) the funny thing is most bronze are there because there teams suck! point 2) if its ranked then that usually means they are bronze as well. point 3) Get better because anyone can play smart and carry a team. if they are anything but a sup....

Wiitendo1 votes

Point 1) can be possible, it has happen.. but we both can learn from it. (mistakes happen) Point2) I have seen a few silvers and gold in my rank matches (I am bronze) point3) I am currently climbing out of bronze as we speak with support, two matches away from silver.

I main support and this is not my first rodeo in bronze with it (since season 3), I have climb to silver one rank with nothing but supports.. I can play any role and know just about 70% of all champs. however I do understand 90% of each champs mechanics (thanks to aram) I just like supporting more.

Take it from me, its hard work alright (real hard work).. but you can carry with supports.

7ha7guy7771 votes

the stigma is so bad that i'd honestly rather stay unranked than risk ending up in a "trash tier" because of how few pvp games i tend to play per day (if any).

Wiitendo1 votes

It can be like that sometimes, There is nothing wrong with just having Fun! and catching a few games here and there.

7ha7guy7771 votes

i've been screwing around with AD Malzahar and AD thresh top lately against bots with the intention of taking them into teambuilder as soon as i'm confident that i can consistently do well. my voidling AD record was 569 after 7 seconds with baron buff and almost full build. building mages with AD items is pretty fun.

Rustling Bush1 votes

i've been screwing around with AD Malzahar and AD thresh top lately against bots with the intention of taking them into teambuilder as soon as i'm confident that i can consistently do well. my voidling AD record was 569 after 7 seconds with baron buff and almost full build. building mages with AD items is pretty fun.

bots are nothing like real people, don't be one of those off meta people and completely ruin other peoples game, atleast have the decency to tell them your plan less you be surprised when you feed and your entire team questions why you are building him so, they'll just assume your a troll either way and report you.

7ha7guy7771 votes

i am well aware. i took AD malz into a game and did fairly well as the adc. i will admit that i play way too many bot games though. i also only do things like that in teambuilder where my team will know before we all hit ready that i intend to go Ad malz so they can kick me or i can do ap if they don't want me to go ad

Wiitendo1 votes

It is better to continue to do this experiments in bot games, last thing you want is some person raging at you telling you to go fight bots...

Drunk Rummate1 votes

funny how many people didn't read the whole post and are just posting "if you're better you'll carry yourself out" when he's referring to people who hardly play ranked games at all beyond their placements.

Wiitendo1 votes

Thank you for reading thru, it seems the message is not being heard correctly.

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