Diamond games are a JOKE
I've played so many diamond games, I'm so sick of it.
Here's an explanation of diamond elo:
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The players vary SO widely in skill. I remember I was diamond and I was nowhere near as good/insightful as I am now. However, my elo still fluctuates the same. Been diamond 2 / diamond 1 a couple times this season and other seasons.
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Winning in diamond is almost completely luck. There is a huge exception to this, of course, and that is if you are playing a very strong carry role that can shot call / solo carry. A few roles come into mind here.
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The reason why winning is based on luck is because people do NOT know their limits. Honestly, most of my losses lately have been because I do so well early/mid game, while maybe helping my team, that they think they can do whatever they want. For example, they make stupid, STUPID baron calls. In the worst cases, you tell them not to do it, it's a bad idea to baron in front of 5 people as 4, not just because you'll probably die, but because you'll also probably give baron. But they continue to experiment. Then they all die with baron around half HP. But yeah, inexperience or anger tells you that I'M the troll, I told you to force an outnumbered baron against a Velkoz, Zilean, and a Katarina.
Where is the solution to this? I can give them a clear indicator that I'm recalling, ping danger 10 times, yet they try to find out what's gonna happen if you insert this shape into that shape.
Like, I'm carrying my team, we're probably almost even in gold, but the rest of my team is behind. They all play like they're ahead! Like a blitzcrank would run in 1v5 with a protobelt and 0 armor items, miss the hook, and just die, repeat 5 times in a game, and then you lose.
What also comes into mind here is really shitty adc's like Lucian players that run up to a Syndra under their inhib tower and try to cull her to death. NO IT'S NOT GONNA WORK DUMBASS. All you did was die and fuck the game up. This alone makes someone HONESTLY not want to play solo queue. How the hell do you push the nexus if the people responsible for attacking it safely without a risky, forced fight taking place die for no reason at all? Refusing to listen to pings too? Those things are there and they carry people. But sometimes, people just don't think, and we're all that guy.
Why am I being PUNISHED for playing WELL?
Like, you play mid, and you get a full damage Jayce top, and your udyr jungle - shocker here, you were winning somewhat, so he went full fuckin' damage! Yeah!! Oh yeah!!! Slap that Bloodrazor, a tri force, and a fuckin BOTRK, and you're almost as useful as an udyr with just a cinderhulk! OH yeah!!!!!!! Fuck you.