People Using their Ranks to Boost Their Self-Esteem in a Game (Normals)

FierceSTEAK·May 31, 2015·34 votes·3,058 views

This happens all the time. A silver player telling a bronze player that he sucks and calling him a bronzie. Gold 5 players telling Silver 1 players get to gold 1st b4 you talk sh**.

or blah blah blah blah.

This is JUST A GAME! PLEASE SHUT UP about your ranks. ESPECIALLY in a normal game. A rank 1 challenger could be a nobody at a basement playing league 24/7 while a bronze 1 player could be someone like a doctor.

For example, one of my friends on league is only silver 3 but he's a genius of 155 IQ, working at a hospital saving peoples' lives every day.

Your bragging about what rank you are means JACK. So let's just enjoy the game, and if we lose, we lose. Everyone loses at least once in his/her life.

And everyone learns at different rates.

36 Comments

YOLO420SWAGSCOPEMay 31, 201513 votes

While I agree with you, I think you're kind of missing the point It doesn't matter what you are in game OR out of game, just shut up and enjoy the game period In normals much more so than in ranked, but even in ranked you're pretty much ranked with people of your skill (unless you're ''smurfing'' in which case you brought your ''shit'' teammates upon yourself)

PhifeMay 31, 20157 votes

This is league not college, no one cares about what degree you major'd in. We just care about rank.

blueberrypancakeMay 31, 20151 votes

Your being such an ass that I would be surprised if you didn't study to become a proctologist

BluePolarizerMay 31, 20155 votes

this goes the other way around.

In normals I've been subject to things like:

"You're plat? Really?" "stfu you're trash plat scrub, anyone can get plat" "AFK scrub support, can't believe he's plat"

from bronzes and silvers... when I try to make jungler/support calls...

Apparently, if you're plat, you're supposed to main everything and never have a bad game or games where you try things out.

FierceSTEAKMay 31, 20151 votes

lol. When I used to be in bronze/low silver, I used to think plats and higher had to be good every game, and now I got to plat, I realize how wrong I was.

AlexXenoJun 2, 20151 votes

Yeah you just need to be good 2/3 games to get there, and then 50% to stay. ok.. yeah not that funny of a joke now that I wrote it out...

DownfallMay 31, 20154 votes

I worked so hard for my rank, and i....i can't be proud? item 3070

TurquoiseYoshiMay 31, 20153 votes

You can be proud, you just can't talk shit to others because of it. There's a distinction.

FierceSTEAKMay 31, 20154 votes

As turquoiseyoshi said, you can be proud that you ranked up to a certain rank, but don't look down on others or think you are superior just because you have a higher rank :D

DeliothMay 31, 201511 votes

Alternatively, look down all you want. You are superior! The lesser beings should bow before you, tremble before your skill- the noobs' lamentations should be music to your ears!

Just don't let them know those thoughts- typing those thoughts is a bad idea.

DownfallMay 31, 20156 votes

I love you

BeatzBoyFTWMay 31, 20154 votes

The type of bragger I seriously hate and wanted to kill so much:

Douche reached Silver 5

Douche: Ok, imma get to Gold division soon.

Day 1, still Silver 5.... Day 2, Silver 4... Day 3, Silver 3.... Day 4, Silver 2..... Day 5, Silver 1..... Day 6, Bronze 1...... ... ...... ... ............ Day 1983914: Gold 5

Douche: OMG FINALLY, IM HERE!

Me as Silver 3 joins game with Douche, made 1 tiny mistake in my plays:

#Douche: Omg, this Silver bitch so noob, uninstall pls. You dun belong here, go fk urself.

http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/b4/b4e9123669287698a0942cc737e7be160cdf7858dabcc3dc4972929afcfb104b.jpg

The LexerMay 31, 20153 votes

General rule of League #427ish:

Anybody under Diamond 1 that doesn't rage every game and is always supportive, has a great life outside of league. Anybody who always plays support has an amazing life outside of league. Anybody who rages and trolls is probably on their tenth girlfriend and sixth job in the last 10 years.

SinfulArtisanJun 1, 20151 votes

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General rule of League #427ish:

Anybody under Diamond 1 that doesn't rage every game and is always supportive, has a great life outside of league. Anybody who always plays support has an amazing life outside of league. Anybody who rages and trolls is probably on their tenth girlfriend and sixth job in the last 10 years.

But what about those who main support and enjoy it, yet also rages a few games and trolls occasionally. (by trolling I mean the other team.)

The LexerJun 1, 20151 votes

Then you're probably fine

AlexXenoJun 2, 20151 votes

but what about this people who are on their sixth job in the last 10 years and has bearly had a girlfriend during that time that is always happy to play support and doesn't rage(unless I, I mean they, feel utterly powerless in a match)

M0RDEKA1SERMay 31, 20152 votes

STFU PLAT SCRUB GT ON MY LVL!!! /Sarcasm

blueberrypancakeMay 31, 20151 votes

sorry I can't understand sarcasm on the internet without kappa

kappa

EternalDarknezMay 31, 20152 votes

hey i say peoples ranks in game, but it honestly usually lowers my self esteem because ill be the level 24 and this will be my match

http://forums.eune.leagueoflegends.com/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=85661

sadly 9/10 its saying watch out because such and such enemy is alot higher rank than anyone on our team...so is this one...and this one....and esp this one....

oh and all their normal wins equal our whole teams put together....by themselves....a piece....

god i love matchmaking and what it does to keep everyone around 50% winrate

(fun added fact, ive been in que for an aram for over 12mins now, love mm and everything included with it...sometimes i question why i question if riot would be better if ran by monkeys.....because the obv answer is yes it would lol)

rescuedMay 31, 20152 votes

I'm bronze 3 , but I really don't care if people see that and think I suck ^^ I play for the enjoyment of the game. If higher elos wanna give me advice, I'm all for it. But don't go talking down to people that have a lower rank.

FierceSTEAKMay 31, 20151 votes

Ya I agree, but I learned not to give advices to people who don't ask for them because one time I tried to help this one person, but he pretty much had, 'i never asked for your help so shut up' attitude and I got kinda offended. So ever since that happened, I just decided if you don't ask for help, I'm not gonna care.

AlexXenoJun 2, 20151 votes

I think that's more of a reaction to the same thing as your saying. I once thanked my jungler for a unsuccessful gank(it didn't get the kill, but it gave me time to farm) and they though I was being sarcastic. I had to actually stop and explain I meant it and they were so very surprised about it.

FierceSTEAKJun 2, 20152 votes

lol that really happened to me too. I had to explain I was not being sarcastic lol

FooDangJun 1, 20152 votes

FYI I don't condone rank bullying.

But...what happens outside the game doesnt matter in-game. I agree with mostly everthing you said till you brought up the friend working at the hospital. I really don't care what people do for a living. A silver 3 doctor is the same rank as a silver 3 14 year old kid. I dont care if he can do heart surgury (unless I'm at the hospital with heart problems) what do care about is if he is going to follow up on my tower dive in top lane.

Its like the smart kid that just got beat up..."well...I can compute long division in my head" ...yea that's cool...but you still got beat up...long division didnt really help you out in that moment...

ElJanitorFrankMay 31, 20151 votes

Well it sort of depends, and hear me out before ya downvote.

If you're talking about the game, then the person with a higher rank is probably correct. However, if the difference is only a division (silver/bronze) then it's pretty much up in the air.

And if they're actually in game with you, it means that their mmr is about the same as yours, and you're pretty much evenly matched, rank be damned.

FierceSTEAKMay 31, 20151 votes

I was clearly not talking about who was right or not. I was talking about people acting condescendingly just because they are a higher rank.

ElJanitorFrankMay 31, 20151 votes

I know... I'm saying it may be warranted if it's about the game they are a higher rank in and I ultimately said it didn't matter anyway if it was in game, because in game you're the same skill level.

GavranMay 31, 20151 votes

And if I can have diamond/plat players in my games at the same skill level, then someone being diamond or plat does not mean they know more about the game than I do and now we come to the real point: if you have something to say, back it up with something better than anecdotes or appeals to authority. There are no two ranks where you can accurately say "everyone in this rank is better than everyone at that rank at league."

BluePolarizerMay 31, 20151 votes

that is not true. I play with/against golds in normals because I don't usually play normals, thus I get matched at lower than my ranked MMR.

Spacesuit SpiffMay 31, 20151 votes

Regardless of what rank you are, if you're in norms odds are you aren't playing what you're used to, so you aren't playing at the level of your ranked rank (unless you're playing your main in norms, but when I do that it just feels dirty). When I start learning Top (my goal for the summer), I'm going to get wrecked a fair amount by people I would walk all over in ranked, and that's fine. That's part of picking up new skillsets.

Besides, it's norms. Matchmaking is understandably ridiculous and people get wrecked. Try to win, but if the team wants to ff20 because toplane is 0/53, all that means is you get to practise laning again sooner.

UrgotToBeKiddingMay 31, 20151 votes

Lol, nobody under diamond should be making any comparisons in the first place. Bragging 'rights' don't go to 1050506060th place being higher than 234090590395th place. Bragging rights come from being the best not 'less mediocre'.

I don't think these people realize how trivial league of legends rankings are to get. There are illegal companies that sell platinum.

BakedLotionMay 31, 20151 votes

I mean, if you're diamond and you're feeding against a gold player, I have the right to judge you.

Blue Collar BearMay 31, 20151 votes

I agree that people should not be condescending in game. In fact, this is why I chose to be more competitive and get to a rank where I felt I'd have some more authority over the game (plat series hype). I spend a ridiculous amount of time thinking, playing, and writing about this damn game. I just never played to compete, and so I was silver three last season. Silver three just means I don't compete. It doesn't mean that I am stupid, or that I am not good at the game.

So, I think a good rule of thumb is to consider why someone is playing the game. This game is highly competitive, but it is still a game. Not everyone plays it to compete, and not everyone plays it to have fun. It makes no sense to be condescending to someone when you two are not even on the same page. It's like being condescending to a garbage man about how to create a time extension effect in a novel when he hasn't read one since high school.

"hurr durr u dun play lol at my lvl, and tht mens u will fail evrything in lief!!!!!"

BiffoloMay 31, 20151 votes

Really, you could be the fucking president and I wouldn't care. If you say some stupid ass shit, and the only way I can get it through to you that it is stupid is by calling the rank card, then I will gladly do it. Your real life has no impact on the game. At all. All that matters is your performance in game. ANd rank is normally a good indicator of that.

And l HelpedJun 1, 20151 votes

Looks like their comments haven't knocked you or your friends down a peg yet. You go girl.

TMITJun 1, 20151 votes

Using your rank to boost your self esteem (IE thinking to yourself that you're happy with your rank) is not the same thing as being toxic to other players over their rank.

Rank indicates that someone is better or worse on average, but the team that makes more crucial correct choices than the other will still win, no matter what the rank says. You don't win or lose because of your rank, you have that rank because you win or lose.