2015-05-02, 04:43 PM
Yeah, I can tell. I've had a lot of gold, platinum and diamond players in normals lately that think they're hot shit and end up throwing the game hard. For instance, I had a Fiddlesticks in a game a few days ago, who demanded to jungle, that was diamond 5 and he was one of the worst players I have ever seen. He ended up going 5/12/17 and had no idea how to gank or use his ultimate.
I had another one in my ranked provisionals. It was a gold level "jungle main" that picked Pantheon. By 10 minutes in, he had no more than 20 CS, and his score was 0/0/0. Bottom lane was pushed against our tower, top and mid lane were getting crushed. This guy had no idea how to gank and would always only go in AFTER my ADC and I would die under tower, then proceed to feed the Vayne yet another kill.
This gives me a little hope, though. If people this bad can get that high up the ladder, why can't I? I'm not perfect and I have a long way to go, but I'm sure I can make smarter decisions than these guys. These guys reminded me of how I jungled when I first started learning in Season 3.
I had another one in my ranked provisionals. It was a gold level "jungle main" that picked Pantheon. By 10 minutes in, he had no more than 20 CS, and his score was 0/0/0. Bottom lane was pushed against our tower, top and mid lane were getting crushed. This guy had no idea how to gank and would always only go in AFTER my ADC and I would die under tower, then proceed to feed the Vayne yet another kill.
This gives me a little hope, though. If people this bad can get that high up the ladder, why can't I? I'm not perfect and I have a long way to go, but I'm sure I can make smarter decisions than these guys. These guys reminded me of how I jungled when I first started learning in Season 3.

