What’s the logic behind people calling high ranks ”low elo”?
Posts keep getting removed on r/leagueoflegends for some reason that I don’t know so I’ve decided to ask here.
This has always been such a strange phenomena to me. Diamond is objectively top 4% of the playerbase, yet I see people calling even that rank ”low elo”, or even ”pisslow”. Let alone emerald or even platinum elo which are better than the majority of players. I’ve seen it mostly rampant on Tiktok but even in other platforms like Reddit, although the community is a bit more supportive here and usually disagree with these comments.
And although ranks are very slightly inflated, there’s a narrative out there that even a silver player from last season could become emerald with the same skills, which is just plain false.
Is this an ego thing because they’ve just hit a rank that’s slightly higher? Are they maybe stuck in that rank and are mad that their teammates could be ”holding them back”? Or is it just plain ragebait?
Is this also as common in other games or is it just an LoL thing?