Everytime Silver ranks players win a game, they tend to be very cocky. Kept calling losing teams noobs and even said GGEZ. Even I'm at bronze rank, I don't show off and being cocky when winning. At least I show sportmenship by saying GGWP only. Hate these cocky players....thinking they won a game and already a pro player.
It might sound weird but the 2 most likely ranks to be toxic are silver and plat.
This is because they are close to positions of importance.
Silver is better than bronze, so people coming out of bronze usually feel like they are finally getting good. So you have people that are cocky that they are out of bronze. Gold is the first rank where league really seems to acknowledge that you are good. Gold players are in the top 40 percent of best league players and get access to the awesome free skin and get access to the way better gold border.
Silver players feel like they deserve gold considering they are very close to it. It feels much more rewarding, it feels a lot better to show off to your friends.
Silver is the rating stuck between where a lot of players want to be and where people really don't want to be.
Plat kind of has the same problem as it is close to the rating that people REALLY want. The saltiness and competitiveness might even be worse there because of the:
TLDR: It is because it is one of the two worst ratings to be in from a perspective.
Maybe being 60% community u meet more cocky silver than rest.
Simple: Silver is the designated shitting street dumping ground for smurfs and banned players leveling up new accounts.
because they think they are high elo xd
I think it happens at every ELO.
