Actually, you're the one who equated less than 50% win ratio to trolling, not me.
No. No. I never did this. I was replying to another poster about that Soraka's win rate when he was essentially trying to claim that a 49% win rate isn't bad. I told him that a 49% win rate means nothing in bronze, which is true. I was referring to the skill level of the player, not the intent of the player.
As for volatility, Bronze likely has less of it than higher tiers because players in Bronze are more clumped together in skill.
Mechanical skill isn't the only factor when it comes to win rates. There are several things that make bronze volatile, like a lack of proper build paths, a lack of champion abilities, a lack of decision making (which could all be lumped under "game knowledge") as well as a lack of communication and rampant toxicity which makes bronze extremely volatile.
More to the point though, what does his division have to do with anything anyway?
His division is important because players in bronze usually don't communicate very well with each other and this evident when you spectate a low elo game or when you go back and read through some of the chat logs which contain nothing but flaming and passive aggressive missing pings. This lack of communication is a major factor that leads to frustration when people do things like pick top AD Soraka without discussing it with their teammates first.
The point is that the guy is obviously trying to win, even if his picks are unorthodox.
We don't know that. He could just be doing it to troll around and have fun on an alternate account.
This guy has 200 games played as ADC Ahri in Diamond I, is he trolling? https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=chubbzilla
As I've said more than once before in this thread, that's cherry picking. Just because one individual can make it work, that doesn't mean it's an all around good pick or build path in general regardless of the elo bracket. Even if this particular player was earnest, there are several factors that could be leading to his success:
- People are inexperienced in facing an ADC Ahri.
- He could be getting carried by his duo queue partner (which seems to be the case in many of his games because his KDA isn't that impressive when you look at his overall kills per game as an ADC).
- Fervor of Battle, as well as other items like Shiv and Duskblade, are all broken at the moment.
If it isn't a prevalent pick that has been proven to be successful (or at least moderately viable) throughout the higher elos then it isn't a legitimate pick.
and use your q to poke, and e to deny farm, it works great against people like darius who you can kite and not let get anywhere near you
