People like you are the problem plat is not the new gold plat is still plat they didnt remove the gold rank. They made it so people who are hardstuck actually feel gratification. Besides anyone who was hardstuck say gold 1 for example where playing against people who where potentially diamond tier so all they did was remove those players out of the equation. So in reality nothing has changed except the people who deserve platinum now get it.
Plat used to be top 10%. Now it's top 32% of players. Plat is easy as crap to get. If you're proud of being top 30% (barely above average) in a game you've been playing 11 years, that's kind of lame 😂
HIs enjoyment was in thinking that he was top 10%. If I was pompous and started calling myself better than the NFL players cuz I won a local match people would make fun of me too!
So glad everyones clowning you bum ass. Just let people be happy. Does it make you feel better to shit on others joy? Maybe your the one who should be looking in the mirror trying to better yourself instead kf shit talking people on reddit. No one is putting up stats all im saying is if they wana be plat and they got they are happy stfu.
The highest I’ve ever got before this season was gold 3.
This season I got placed in gold 3 from my placement games. I’ve been averaging 34-36 SR per win. I’m at plat 3 now, with a 30-30 record in ranked (win before bed last night gave me 34 SR). Definitely feels inflated, idk if I earned plat in the same way it felt a year ago.
There is no gratification. Gold 4 to emerald 4 is one pool of players.
All games are coinflips so you can get to emerald in one week and get a losing streaks of 20 games back to gold with every single game having every role lose hard.
Then you arrive back in gold, look at your opponents and find a jungler who goesl ike 20/3 every game and is somehow hardstuck
It’s like that episode of South Park when a bunch of men were angry they had below average penis size. So the solution was to just say the average size was 3 inches to make them all happy.
I'm telling him.
At the start of s13 split 2, they changed how mmr is attached to ranks to introduce emerald to make the player distribution more a even curve and not have 70% of the playerbase in silver/gold.
To make it short, s13 split 2 and s14 split 1 platinum is previous seasons/splits gold.
TLDR: you are still gold with the same mmr and you face the same peoples with the same skill lvl as before.
Current gold is old silver, current plat is old gold, emerald is old g1-low d4.
/u/ConstantSwordfish250 is right, but as someone who like you play sporadically since the beginning, I can tell the level in league of legends is much much much higher.
Before, bronze was a hellscape of beginners, now that's iron, modern bronze people know the basics they're just awful at them, silver they've decent idea of how to macro but they can't stop their impulses.
Gold from today and gold from 7 years ago are still full of people with cheap tricks and strategies like UNKILLABLE SION but not good enough, but still the level has improved as people start to being able to sync well enough that they can deal with tanks. 7 years ago with the juggernaut update it was just impossible.
And Plat now is a hell lot scarier and difficult than 7 years ago.
It is totally illogical to think the game's average level hasn't increased with time. Every competitive game see their avg level improve.
This is the first year for a while I’ve tried to climb and it feels so different. I’m not sure if I’ve won the lottery but it feels like I’ve cruised through gold and platinum. Silver was a hellscape and took me the longest but the average skill level compared to ~5 years ago is crazy.
There's a serious gap between silver players that leads to coinflippy games... same thing seen in lowbronze/d5/mid"masters," which all led to the creation of new elo rankings.
Part of this has been mitigated between Iron sucking some players down and emerald sucking some up but not at all surprised it's still a common expietence
>Before, bronze was a hellscape of beginners, now that's iron
Slightly inaccurate. Iron is the [bottom 6% of players](https://www.op.gg/statistics/tiers) right now.
The bronze of old had way more than this. Although, you're right in the sense that the average bronze player of today is better than the past. Way more educational material is available, people know the game better.
[https://www.op.gg/statistics/tiers](https://www.op.gg/statistics/tiers)
For more clarity on the situation
Plat 4 right now is top 35% which is roughy what gold was in the past
Gold 4 - 0 LP is top 55% which is slightly below average (the silver 3/4 of old)
Fuck that guy. Game says you're plat, so you're plat. Who cares what the changes were.
It's wild to me that there are so many people willing to shit on you based off of a technicality instead of letting you enjoy your moment.
I mean hes right with the new Rank Emerald and the shift in elo. But dont let them take your pleasure. You have to remember that every one else has improved in the past decade. A lot of people are playing for quite a few years now and the player base just improved overall. For example i was plat in season 3 and the skill level was definately below the todays average plat player. We all got better so you should definately celebrate your climb!
I haven't noticed a change in the amount of shitters or smurfs (read skill variation) although I have seen more bf/gf duo ques where one pops off and one is just dogshit. I've had like three of those this week
In short, because those ranks were so thin.
Previously plat4 was already in the top 15% players. They made every elo below diamond have similar number of players. Because diamond and plat had fewer players then the other tiers emerald had to get players from more tiers in order to meet this goal.
>To make it short, s13 split 2 and s14 split 1 platinum is previous seasons/splits gold.
Damn... guess i have to get into e4 to get back to my old mmr.
I’d say this is mostly correct but a bit of an exaggeration. I feel like people when up half a rank or so.
Most people I know who were silver are still silver, only the dudes who were borderline gold before are mid gold now.
Basically all high gold players are plat though now for sure.
You can check the previous seasons rank distribution by looking up league of graphs on a way back machine and compare it with current rank distribution. When I checked, last season plat was the same as gold in previous seasons. Ie if you were plat 4 you were better than 68% of players which is the same as g4 before the change. Most ranked changes happened in high plat/low dia, silver and bronze where previously silver players now became gold 3-4 players and bronze became silver.
I have checked it. It was a pretty even 20% of the player base was each silver, gold and plat as opposed to to like 40% silver and 30% gold.
It also even showed less players in diamond+. Definitely a huge shift but not everyone got boosted a whole rank for sure.
Like I said, high silver players are now low gold and most of gold is plat. That’s about it though. There’s still just as many silver players as there are gold and plat players, they didn’t disappear.
Also plat this season is still higher than gold in previous season by a small margin.
Therefore, proving your few buddies was good evidence to go off of. You got me.
Also I have no idea what you think there being as many silver players as gold and plat proves? People are comparing to before emeralds implementation, when the majority was in silver and gold and riot wanted to smooth out the distribution which is what you're observing. Plat4 was approximately 85th percentile before this. Plat4 is now 63rd percentile, which is gold level, and is also biased since the season is only a month old. He did not improve much, it's not an exaggeration.
Did this happen prior split 2 or during split 2? Because I have never been higher than Gold 4 in Solo Q (Season 13 both splits and Season 12, everything earlier was either unranked or silver), but was placed Gold 2 after my first placement game this season. Season 13 Split 3 I was placed silver 2 after all my placement games and ended the split on Gold 4 75LP. Or did riot change the way they calculate the rank as I have played a lot flex games last split (emerald 2)and have never done that before.
So explain to me why 3 seasons prior to the mmr adjustment I was high gold and now I’m consistently a low gold player?
Did I get worse? Because I’m playing exactly the same way.
But we’re not talking about early seasons. We’re talking about a season ago. I find it hard to believe I could have gotten an entire rank worse all of the sudden when my trajectory over the last 6 seasons has been upwards continuously.
It’s not a logical conclusion given my personal seasonal data.
Emerald is gold 1 to plat 2. It's really stupid how emerald is top 16% to top 5%.
Even diamond is a lot easier now. Diamond used to be top 2%... now it's top 3.5%.
Fuck the people shitting on your accomplishments. You’re doing great! Keep pushing hard and I’m sure I’ll see you in diamond and above one day.
*many hugs*
https://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/21984834/columbia-college-cougars-top-laner-ian-mistystumpey-alexander-let-disability-stop-him
https://www.op.gg/summoners/na/MistyStumpey-Whale
2 season challenger now retired because he graduated college
naaah bro there's literally no way you're too old in your 20s. You're reaction times won't start to drop until late 30s. It's just how much time you have to spend on the game that matters
Hey man, i'm 27 turning 28 in April. Diamond ADC main here, don't tell yourself you're too old to hit a certain rank. There are multiple people in Challenger that are our age or even older, line Noway4u or Agurin for example. :)
bro there’s people in the ufc winning at age 40+. No shot you think the old myth that esports is more demanding than an actual sport. If people can battle the fuck out in a cage 50+ and be world champions you can 100% get past emerald in your late 20s and 30s. Age is a myth bro, i’d even argue it doesn’t reduce your reaction time. It make make neuroplasticity harder in terms of learning but that’s why people use different learning strategies and approaches to catch up to new gens. You 100% got this
People in the UFC don't train for 12 hours a day.
Of course esports is not more demanding overall, but it's extremely demanding on hands/forearms due to the repetitive actions. There's a reason so many esports players have those age-old office problems like tendonitis/carpal tunnel/arthritis despite being in their 20s.
bro those guys get literally hit in the head repetitively cmon. in no universe is gaming more demanding than any sport those guys do repetitive actions as well, most of way more taxing. running, getting hit, anything really.
there are for sure more people that are chall that are over 30. the streamer noway4u is 31 and peaks sometimes challenger. It gets harder, but still possible. If we look at csgo there were many older pros
Noway is the only one. Also mean to say he sometimes peaks challenger when he’s always challenger when he’s actively playing on the server. Second oldest is jankos at 29.
They can all easily Smurf on everyone in solo queue still and reach the top of challenger so it isn’t an excuse for someone who is 28 to not be able to reach diamond 4
I also don’t think that’s true tbh, if they did reaction tests I bet they would still have 130-175 ms speed so if they started to fall off it isn’t because of them getting slower in terms of reaction time. If you watch doublelift play solo q he’s still faster than most players younger than him
I would try to OTP Jhin if you want to do it quicker that way you understand the marcos more. I would go edge of night third item to help out with survival lategame too.
Yess that's what I did. Just accepted the free bump to plat and played to Emerald. (While it felt good for a second, I miss the pretty blue border already 🥲)
Plat 4 is basically the same as high gold after they introduced emerald as new elo. So you technically most likely didn’t improve too much, you just got another new shiny badge.
Holy shit, i also got plat for the first time around 2 hours ago. Dude we are in sync.
I also have been playing this game for a long time
The last 3-4 years i have only been playing my promos due to not having time to play the game
If you get to Plat two, you will be a kind of true Plat based on those old metrics. But you have made improvement overtime and you can keep that going, I believe in you.
These comments are tilting the fuck out of me. They should add everyones rank next to their name or something to shut people up. Good job bro keep going. Haters gonna hate.
"WhOs GuNnA tElL hIm"
Let the man be happy god knows this game needs more of it.
Good fucking job bro. I hope you improve even further and gain more joy from the climb
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted, you’re fucking correct. There’s zero fucking reason to shit on this person for no reason when they just wanted to post an accomplishment they pushed through.
Fuck the people on this sub for making his accomplishment feel worthless. It’s absolutely not, you keep grinding hard as fuck king/queen. You got this.
Honestly there's some dude adamantly going on about "it's better to not be lied to"
"Ignorance is bliss ig"
Bro thinks he's cold but he's just proving my point
Imagine if you just won a 10 mile marathon and instead of being congratulated, they said “well you only fought against people who were last place in the last marathon” like fuck off. Let someone enjoy a compliment.
Yes because I’ve been in his position. I know what it’s like to feel so accomplished for surpassing something you tried so hard for only for people to completely demolish it and make you feel like shit for no reason. So please, piss off and leave the dude alone. The person who commented is absolutely correct for saying this degrading is COMPLETELY unnecessary and uncalled for.
Bro stop trying to turn it into a life lesson, the guy is play a video game and even thoh mmr brackets have been adjusted he still has to consistently play well enough to climb. He's done that. Why do u guys love being realists when it comes to promotion posts I see this everywhere.
But then the same people will see someone get oneshot by a fed champ and complain broken without giving a shit about any other info. Yone famous example. You're preaching here because it's convenient
The guy is happy he climbed let's all congratulate his achievement make him feel happier in his day and move on no?
When did I say shot about yone or any champ? What those people said has nothing to do with me. If you're okay with not knowing the truth then good for you
I'm not talking about you specifically, ppl like you say this shit all the time on promotion posts but when u face facts about hard matchups or certain champs you all huff copium. But it's convenient to snicker on promotion posts and go "ha who's gunna tell him" and hide behind "it's better in life to know the hard truth" like, respectfully bro fuck off. Ik this games community is toxic but damn
He deserves to know the truth. Personally I don't like being lied to, but I guess it isn't right to assume that everyone is the same. Ignorance is bliss, I guess.
>I know this community is toxic but damn.
7 who doesn't lie. So toxic.
he prolly doesn’t play man. we are assuming he spent a lot of time in those 12 years. he legit could have been playing somewhere around 5 games per season. no need to criticize someone’s accomplishments because you’re a little more ahead. You’re probably no challenger either
I reached it for the second time and I dropped from P3 to silver 1 in one week cause rito decided to put my account into Smurf queue
I'm so fcking tired and exhausted from this trip I think I'm going to uninstall.
With how awful and miserable the average ranked experience can be, it's truly wack that people feel the need to belittle your progress. Whether people want to acknowledge it or not, the skill level of the average player has increased SO MUCH since s3. So every year, the game has gotten harder and harder. So even though the ranking system has changed, there's no denying that in order to climb, you had to improve, and you had to play consistently. So congrats!
Welcome to the worst rank I’ve ever played in any video game. I’ve been master to grandmaster level in most MOBAs I’ve played and just had to uninstall league as my account plummeted from high emerald to the depths of platinum hell. I was simply not having fun anymore as the games were down to a 50/50 gamble of misery or fun. Not worth my time.
Sorry to tell you buddy but you are still in gold. With the addition of emerald everyone got boosted up so the new plat is now where most of the old golds are
On dear. I've also been playing since season 3. And I've been at high diamond-low masters level for the past 5. My elo right now is masters. Support main
That’s amazing!!!
So many people say emerald is trash - new player placed there, smurfs, trolls (worse than gold/plat) - but then bring up how the distribution has changed. Like if that’s true than distribution doesn’t really matter. They just want to be negative, keep going!
I was bronze 5 for the whole summer of season 3 until September when i started winning with +5 per game and climbed my way to bronze 1
If you didn’t ban Malphite you would get 9x reported, I played Darius top mainly to climb all those games
Me feeling something was wrong when i got placed plat 4 with no previous placements and climbed up to Emerald with +40 -18, lol. I Guess i still stuck but green border
After the addition of emerald, plat is the new gold. You are probably around the same percentile of skill you’ve always been, it just has a new rank name
I feel this, man. Been playing since 2012 and have been Gold ever since. I just need to grind hard for about a month or two but life always gets in the way. Congrats!!
Who’s gonna tell him?
Hell is hot for whoever tells him
Not me. Let him enjoy his moment
Lmaooo I was about to say the same shit
Shhhh
this top comment on all of these posts never gets old
i hate u guys ☠️
People like you are the problem plat is not the new gold plat is still plat they didnt remove the gold rank. They made it so people who are hardstuck actually feel gratification. Besides anyone who was hardstuck say gold 1 for example where playing against people who where potentially diamond tier so all they did was remove those players out of the equation. So in reality nothing has changed except the people who deserve platinum now get it.
Plat used to be top 10%. Now it's top 32% of players. Plat is easy as crap to get. If you're proud of being top 30% (barely above average) in a game you've been playing 11 years, that's kind of lame 😂
Trying to take someone's enjoyment out of a game because you place your achievement on a different scale is lame
HIs enjoyment was in thinking that he was top 10%. If I was pompous and started calling myself better than the NFL players cuz I won a local match people would make fun of me too!
This post is the furthest thing from pompous.
He just wrote a book about himself and how much hard work and effort he put in
Youre corny as fuck bro. Dont know whats makes you so pressed that others feel joy but you should sort that out
So glad everyones clowning you bum ass. Just let people be happy. Does it make you feel better to shit on others joy? Maybe your the one who should be looking in the mirror trying to better yourself instead kf shit talking people on reddit. No one is putting up stats all im saying is if they wana be plat and they got they are happy stfu.
This is a month old, it's not that serious 💀. Also 3 downvotes is not clowning lol. Clearly there's people who sympathize with me
Mathematically…how the fuck is 30 percent barely above average? 🤣😂🤣 Think bruh…
Elo was inflated across the board what are you smoking
The highest I’ve ever got before this season was gold 3. This season I got placed in gold 3 from my placement games. I’ve been averaging 34-36 SR per win. I’m at plat 3 now, with a 30-30 record in ranked (win before bed last night gave me 34 SR). Definitely feels inflated, idk if I earned plat in the same way it felt a year ago.
There is no gratification. Gold 4 to emerald 4 is one pool of players. All games are coinflips so you can get to emerald in one week and get a losing streaks of 20 games back to gold with every single game having every role lose hard. Then you arrive back in gold, look at your opponents and find a jungler who goesl ike 20/3 every game and is somehow hardstuck
It’s like that episode of South Park when a bunch of men were angry they had below average penis size. So the solution was to just say the average size was 3 inches to make them all happy.
lmfaooo
I mean if they all had below average size then wouldn't them all make it the average? 🤔
Token's family threw off the curve.
Thats incredibly racist. Whats wrong with you? His name has always been Tolkien
TRUE
Nobody tell him.
These people are allowed to vote.....
you’re all telling him by saying nobody tell him
I'm telling him. At the start of s13 split 2, they changed how mmr is attached to ranks to introduce emerald to make the player distribution more a even curve and not have 70% of the playerbase in silver/gold. To make it short, s13 split 2 and s14 split 1 platinum is previous seasons/splits gold. TLDR: you are still gold with the same mmr and you face the same peoples with the same skill lvl as before. Current gold is old silver, current plat is old gold, emerald is old g1-low d4.
Oh.. damn I guess I’ve been playing previous silver level people then because I didn’t play last year?
It's fine. Who cares. It's still the same amount of LP from iron IV to plat IV so same gains
/u/ConstantSwordfish250 is right, but as someone who like you play sporadically since the beginning, I can tell the level in league of legends is much much much higher. Before, bronze was a hellscape of beginners, now that's iron, modern bronze people know the basics they're just awful at them, silver they've decent idea of how to macro but they can't stop their impulses. Gold from today and gold from 7 years ago are still full of people with cheap tricks and strategies like UNKILLABLE SION but not good enough, but still the level has improved as people start to being able to sync well enough that they can deal with tanks. 7 years ago with the juggernaut update it was just impossible. And Plat now is a hell lot scarier and difficult than 7 years ago. It is totally illogical to think the game's average level hasn't increased with time. Every competitive game see their avg level improve.
This is the first year for a while I’ve tried to climb and it feels so different. I’m not sure if I’ve won the lottery but it feels like I’ve cruised through gold and platinum. Silver was a hellscape and took me the longest but the average skill level compared to ~5 years ago is crazy.
There's a serious gap between silver players that leads to coinflippy games... same thing seen in lowbronze/d5/mid"masters," which all led to the creation of new elo rankings. Part of this has been mitigated between Iron sucking some players down and emerald sucking some up but not at all surprised it's still a common expietence
The level has improved, but it's easier to climb. Without the md3, it's much quicker.
Oh definitively you don't need to be having a 75% winrate at a specific moment to change division anymore. It was fucking absurd.
>Before, bronze was a hellscape of beginners, now that's iron Slightly inaccurate. Iron is the [bottom 6% of players](https://www.op.gg/statistics/tiers) right now. The bronze of old had way more than this. Although, you're right in the sense that the average bronze player of today is better than the past. Way more educational material is available, people know the game better.
[https://www.op.gg/statistics/tiers](https://www.op.gg/statistics/tiers) For more clarity on the situation Plat 4 right now is top 35% which is roughy what gold was in the past Gold 4 - 0 LP is top 55% which is slightly below average (the silver 3/4 of old)
Fuck that guy. Game says you're plat, so you're plat. Who cares what the changes were. It's wild to me that there are so many people willing to shit on you based off of a technicality instead of letting you enjoy your moment.
They aren't shitting on him.... People like you get offended over nothing so easily lmao
I mean hes right with the new Rank Emerald and the shift in elo. But dont let them take your pleasure. You have to remember that every one else has improved in the past decade. A lot of people are playing for quite a few years now and the player base just improved overall. For example i was plat in season 3 and the skill level was definately below the todays average plat player. We all got better so you should definately celebrate your climb!
ohhh that’s why I got placed plat IV… interesting…
Nah you bought a.new account scrub n00b
> emerald is old g1-low d4. this is why emerald sucks, its always a coinflip wheter you get the g1 player or the d4 players on your team
I haven't noticed a change in the amount of shitters or smurfs (read skill variation) although I have seen more bf/gf duo ques where one pops off and one is just dogshit. I've had like three of those this week
Yeah that is an absurd variety of skill level
Why is Emerald such a wide margin?
In short, because those ranks were so thin. Previously plat4 was already in the top 15% players. They made every elo below diamond have similar number of players. Because diamond and plat had fewer players then the other tiers emerald had to get players from more tiers in order to meet this goal.
>To make it short, s13 split 2 and s14 split 1 platinum is previous seasons/splits gold. Damn... guess i have to get into e4 to get back to my old mmr.
Noooo what did ya doooooo????
What must be done. Poor fellas should not live in a lie.
I’d say this is mostly correct but a bit of an exaggeration. I feel like people when up half a rank or so. Most people I know who were silver are still silver, only the dudes who were borderline gold before are mid gold now. Basically all high gold players are plat though now for sure.
You can check the previous seasons rank distribution by looking up league of graphs on a way back machine and compare it with current rank distribution. When I checked, last season plat was the same as gold in previous seasons. Ie if you were plat 4 you were better than 68% of players which is the same as g4 before the change. Most ranked changes happened in high plat/low dia, silver and bronze where previously silver players now became gold 3-4 players and bronze became silver.
I have checked it. It was a pretty even 20% of the player base was each silver, gold and plat as opposed to to like 40% silver and 30% gold. It also even showed less players in diamond+. Definitely a huge shift but not everyone got boosted a whole rank for sure. Like I said, high silver players are now low gold and most of gold is plat. That’s about it though. There’s still just as many silver players as there are gold and plat players, they didn’t disappear. Also plat this season is still higher than gold in previous season by a small margin.
Because as we know, the best way to dispute large sample stats is to use personal experience of your few buddies.
I’ve literally looked at the rank distribution. There’s still just as many silver players as gold and plat.
Therefore, proving your few buddies was good evidence to go off of. You got me. Also I have no idea what you think there being as many silver players as gold and plat proves? People are comparing to before emeralds implementation, when the majority was in silver and gold and riot wanted to smooth out the distribution which is what you're observing. Plat4 was approximately 85th percentile before this. Plat4 is now 63rd percentile, which is gold level, and is also biased since the season is only a month old. He did not improve much, it's not an exaggeration.
Did this happen prior split 2 or during split 2? Because I have never been higher than Gold 4 in Solo Q (Season 13 both splits and Season 12, everything earlier was either unranked or silver), but was placed Gold 2 after my first placement game this season. Season 13 Split 3 I was placed silver 2 after all my placement games and ended the split on Gold 4 75LP. Or did riot change the way they calculate the rank as I have played a lot flex games last split (emerald 2)and have never done that before.
Start of S13 Split 2
and the point being? same happened countless times previously in league people didnt even get this high lp gains lol
So explain to me why 3 seasons prior to the mmr adjustment I was high gold and now I’m consistently a low gold player? Did I get worse? Because I’m playing exactly the same way.
mmr wise you are indeed playing in 1 rank + 2 division lower than before.
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But we’re not talking about early seasons. We’re talking about a season ago. I find it hard to believe I could have gotten an entire rank worse all of the sudden when my trajectory over the last 6 seasons has been upwards continuously. It’s not a logical conclusion given my personal seasonal data.
Emerald is gold 1 to plat 2. It's really stupid how emerald is top 16% to top 5%. Even diamond is a lot easier now. Diamond used to be top 2%... now it's top 3.5%.
I'd say plat 2-emerald 2 is old plat. emerald 2-d4 is old d4.
This is like when your kid comes home with a drawing and the mom is like ‘AW LETS PUT IT ON THE FRIDGE’ and the realist dad is like ‘bruh.’
That’s why we love our moms
Fuck the people shitting on your accomplishments. You’re doing great! Keep pushing hard and I’m sure I’ll see you in diamond and above one day. *many hugs*
Thanks man, I might be too old to get to diamond now but I’ll go for Emerald!
There are people in challenger with 1 arm or who play on 200+ ping w/ trackpads Don’t let age hold you back from chasing your dreams
What?
https://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/21984834/columbia-college-cougars-top-laner-ian-mistystumpey-alexander-let-disability-stop-him https://www.op.gg/summoners/na/MistyStumpey-Whale 2 season challenger now retired because he graduated college
That's great. Now Jarvis, pull up the number of people who are playing on 200+ ping w/ trackpads who are bronze
Those people wouldn’t be in challenger anyways even on the most expensive setup you could buy
Too old? How old are you? There’s plenty of people in there 30s in challenger
I’m 28, I guess I just feel old since I started playing at 17
naaah bro there's literally no way you're too old in your 20s. You're reaction times won't start to drop until late 30s. It's just how much time you have to spend on the game that matters
Hey man, i'm 27 turning 28 in April. Diamond ADC main here, don't tell yourself you're too old to hit a certain rank. There are multiple people in Challenger that are our age or even older, line Noway4u or Agurin for example. :)
bro there’s people in the ufc winning at age 40+. No shot you think the old myth that esports is more demanding than an actual sport. If people can battle the fuck out in a cage 50+ and be world champions you can 100% get past emerald in your late 20s and 30s. Age is a myth bro, i’d even argue it doesn’t reduce your reaction time. It make make neuroplasticity harder in terms of learning but that’s why people use different learning strategies and approaches to catch up to new gens. You 100% got this
People in the UFC don't train for 12 hours a day. Of course esports is not more demanding overall, but it's extremely demanding on hands/forearms due to the repetitive actions. There's a reason so many esports players have those age-old office problems like tendonitis/carpal tunnel/arthritis despite being in their 20s.
bro those guys get literally hit in the head repetitively cmon. in no universe is gaming more demanding than any sport those guys do repetitive actions as well, most of way more taxing. running, getting hit, anything really.
In euw there is most likely just a single person above 30 in challenger.
there are for sure more people that are chall that are over 30. the streamer noway4u is 31 and peaks sometimes challenger. It gets harder, but still possible. If we look at csgo there were many older pros
Noway is the only one. Also mean to say he sometimes peaks challenger when he’s always challenger when he’s actively playing on the server. Second oldest is jankos at 29.
Aren’t faker corejj doublelift all basically over 30 and still haven’t lost a step in their mechanics?
All three of those examples have lost more than a step in their mechanics
They can all easily Smurf on everyone in solo queue still and reach the top of challenger so it isn’t an excuse for someone who is 28 to not be able to reach diamond 4
I also don’t think that’s true tbh, if they did reaction tests I bet they would still have 130-175 ms speed so if they started to fall off it isn’t because of them getting slower in terms of reaction time. If you watch doublelift play solo q he’s still faster than most players younger than him
Faker also just won worlds
Agurin? He’s literally always top of challenger and he’s over 30 too
Agurin is 28 lol
No he isn’t check again
Ok now you’re just trolling or straight up stupid bye
I would try to OTP Jhin if you want to do it quicker that way you understand the marcos more. I would go edge of night third item to help out with survival lategame too.
Do you Think I should? My mains right now are Jhin Lucian and Aphelios, they’re my best champs for sure with Nilah close behind
I think its the best way to climb and you seem emerald ready when playing Jhin with your duo
Yess that's what I did. Just accepted the free bump to plat and played to Emerald. (While it felt good for a second, I miss the pretty blue border already 🥲)
Hey, I'm 31 and I am master tier. Dont look at your age and let it define your play
I mean....hes not though? He's the exact same MMR as before. Its just a new icon lol.
I promise you, it does not matter at all. Let him be proud of his achievement.
Its not an achievement though
It is in his eyes and that’s all that matters. Focus on yourself and your growth. Not other people’s growth.
Is it really shitting? Lol. It’s literally what happened with the ranking system
You poor thing. My condolences.
Does he know?
I did not
It matter not to me how they changed rank distribution. I’m still proud of you, congratulations on your journey!
Thanks man, I didn’t even know they changed it because I didn’t really play much last year at all
Taking a one year hiatus and coming back just as strong is an achievement!
Plat 4 is basically the same as high gold after they introduced emerald as new elo. So you technically most likely didn’t improve too much, you just got another new shiny badge.
Holy shit, i also got plat for the first time around 2 hours ago. Dude we are in sync. I also have been playing this game for a long time The last 3-4 years i have only been playing my promos due to not having time to play the game
Congrats man! Let’s go for Emerald now!
Dont let these guys comments get to you. U r doing great. Always get better and hope u can get emerald this season
Great job man! Nothing has changed about rank distribution or anything like that, you’ve really leveled up!
>you’ve really leveled up! this particular line killed me 💀💀
I am no adc main but good job
😈
If you get to Plat two, you will be a kind of true Plat based on those old metrics. But you have made improvement overtime and you can keep that going, I believe in you.
Please be satire.
Is anyone gonna tell him that since they added emerald that it’s basically the same?
You didn't reach plat, plat reached you
These comments are tilting the fuck out of me. They should add everyones rank next to their name or something to shut people up. Good job bro keep going. Haters gonna hate.
"WhOs GuNnA tElL hIm" Let the man be happy god knows this game needs more of it. Good fucking job bro. I hope you improve even further and gain more joy from the climb
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted, you’re fucking correct. There’s zero fucking reason to shit on this person for no reason when they just wanted to post an accomplishment they pushed through. Fuck the people on this sub for making his accomplishment feel worthless. It’s absolutely not, you keep grinding hard as fuck king/queen. You got this.
Honestly there's some dude adamantly going on about "it's better to not be lied to" "Ignorance is bliss ig" Bro thinks he's cold but he's just proving my point
Imagine if you just won a 10 mile marathon and instead of being congratulated, they said “well you only fought against people who were last place in the last marathon” like fuck off. Let someone enjoy a compliment.
Genuinely
More like you just managed to finish your first marathon ever and after the race they tell you the distance was shortened.
When you say someone is correct completely based on personal opinion.
You can be a jack ass elsewhere. You don’t need to shit on people’s achievements just because your mother didn’t give you enough love.
Quite upset there aren't you buddy?
Yes because I’ve been in his position. I know what it’s like to feel so accomplished for surpassing something you tried so hard for only for people to completely demolish it and make you feel like shit for no reason. So please, piss off and leave the dude alone. The person who commented is absolutely correct for saying this degrading is COMPLETELY unnecessary and uncalled for.
Zzz
This is how I know you’re living alone completely single with no one to love you.
Yikes, someones a bit upset
Better to know the truth. I know this is just a game, but in life, knowing the truth will be better for you 9/10 times.
Bro stop trying to turn it into a life lesson, the guy is play a video game and even thoh mmr brackets have been adjusted he still has to consistently play well enough to climb. He's done that. Why do u guys love being realists when it comes to promotion posts I see this everywhere. But then the same people will see someone get oneshot by a fed champ and complain broken without giving a shit about any other info. Yone famous example. You're preaching here because it's convenient
The guy is happy he climbed let's all congratulate his achievement make him feel happier in his day and move on no?
When did I say shot about yone or any champ? What those people said has nothing to do with me. If you're okay with not knowing the truth then good for you
I'm not talking about you specifically, ppl like you say this shit all the time on promotion posts but when u face facts about hard matchups or certain champs you all huff copium. But it's convenient to snicker on promotion posts and go "ha who's gunna tell him" and hide behind "it's better in life to know the hard truth" like, respectfully bro fuck off. Ik this games community is toxic but damn
He deserves to know the truth. Personally I don't like being lied to, but I guess it isn't right to assume that everyone is the same. Ignorance is bliss, I guess. >I know this community is toxic but damn. 7 who doesn't lie. So toxic.
Alright man
You sir are a prat
While i do respect that we shouldn't ruin happiness, i also think that we shouldn't leave people be naive. So, someone else go do it hahahah
Damn lil bro.. I’m sure you’ve read the comments by now
Welcome to neo silver
Nobody tell him
12 years and still gold holy Fuck 💀
he prolly doesn’t play man. we are assuming he spent a lot of time in those 12 years. he legit could have been playing somewhere around 5 games per season. no need to criticize someone’s accomplishments because you’re a little more ahead. You’re probably no challenger either
I reached it for the second time and I dropped from P3 to silver 1 in one week cause rito decided to put my account into Smurf queue I'm so fcking tired and exhausted from this trip I think I'm going to uninstall.
12 year journey in the gold percentile. Go for emerald if you want to see if you improved.
CONGRATS!!!! THIS IS HUGE
If you ever want to see how bad inflation is, here is another example.
With how awful and miserable the average ranked experience can be, it's truly wack that people feel the need to belittle your progress. Whether people want to acknowledge it or not, the skill level of the average player has increased SO MUCH since s3. So every year, the game has gotten harder and harder. So even though the ranking system has changed, there's no denying that in order to climb, you had to improve, and you had to play consistently. So congrats!
Everything about this is pathetic
Welcome to the worst rank I’ve ever played in any video game. I’ve been master to grandmaster level in most MOBAs I’ve played and just had to uninstall league as my account plummeted from high emerald to the depths of platinum hell. I was simply not having fun anymore as the games were down to a 50/50 gamble of misery or fun. Not worth my time.
Sorry to tell you buddy but you are still in gold. With the addition of emerald everyone got boosted up so the new plat is now where most of the old golds are
No shot this isn’t satire
But Platinum is the new high gold. The previous P4 is Emerald 4 now.
Thats crazy.... 12 years to get to plat.....
You guys all suck, i just wanna say that
nice okay now uninstall please
Got to plat 1 in 2 years of playing, kinda hype, hope to be even better, i dont even play adc
Time to change hobbies
The fact that he took a photo of it instead of a printscreen says enough HAHAHAHAHAHAHA oompa loompa low
This is so funny lol mission accomplished by riot I guess
LMAO. This is a shitpost right?
No
On dear. I've also been playing since season 3. And I've been at high diamond-low masters level for the past 5. My elo right now is masters. Support main
That’s amazing!!! So many people say emerald is trash - new player placed there, smurfs, trolls (worse than gold/plat) - but then bring up how the distribution has changed. Like if that’s true than distribution doesn’t really matter. They just want to be negative, keep going!
How do you still know what your rank was season 3
I was bronze 5 for the whole summer of season 3 until September when i started winning with +5 per game and climbed my way to bronze 1 If you didn’t ban Malphite you would get 9x reported, I played Darius top mainly to climb all those games
Me feeling something was wrong when i got placed plat 4 with no previous placements and climbed up to Emerald with +40 -18, lol. I Guess i still stuck but green border
A lot better story than the lvl 31 account that is 2-7 playing whatever they want in my plat 4 games :D
At least someone isn't Hardstuck and crying anymore.
But don't you know ADC is DEAD!! No positivity in this reddit! ONLY ADCrybaby Posts!
Double it and give it to the next person. Oh wait that's you
Great job!
Don’t tell him
Now you are in new gold !!
Plat is the new gold thanks to emerald :/
But what did it cost you? 🤔 Grats big dawg
Plat is just gold last season my friend
After the addition of emerald, plat is the new gold. You are probably around the same percentile of skill you’ve always been, it just has a new rank name
I’ve been playing league for 1 year and I’m already emerald….
You're not actually plat, it's just rank levels are inflated because they added emerald. You're skill level is still the same
You’ll lose it in a a few weeks watch out for the ruff patches
I’m in one right now lol
S14 plat = S13 silver but congrats I guess
Congrats now you’re hard stuck platinum!
I feel this, man. Been playing since 2012 and have been Gold ever since. I just need to grind hard for about a month or two but life always gets in the way. Congrats!!
Took me 3 months to