Honestly I’m still kinda new and I just saw the maximum hate and disrespect for ranged top. For me anything is fine, but then I started to see them a little too much.
At first, it was Teemo, I get it now.
Then came Vayne, I get it now.
What followed was Jayce, I get it now.
Then the abomination called Varus came, I get it now.
Now, I get it.
I’m being very honest here. I started playing this game almost two months ago and all I heard was everything under emerald is just ass. They can all be swept under the same rug with some minor differences. I just am slowly finding out that it’s just a lie.
I am a very average gamer, but someone who always tries his best to learn. When I started playing ranked I dropped all the way to Iron 4 from iron 1. I stayed Iron 4 for about 200 games. I almost feel embarrassed, because all I read was that you actively had to try to lose to get to iron 4. I swear my mental faculties are absolutely fine.
After 200 games I noticed that things clicked way more and I simply felt like a better player. In 20 games I went from iron 4 to bronze 4. There was a difference. All of a sudden I was losing again in 1v1s. I noticed that people just also knew more.
I have studied dozens upon dozens of hours just to know match ups better. I play top as Shen, or Shen/Poppy support. It’s hard. I started playing support because I just couldn’t win lane in bronze.
I had to play adc to better understand when my positioning was bad. I had to watch so many videos, but finally last week I started absolutely beating bronze players in top lane. It felt amazing to finally smoke Mordekaiser.
Now I’m like 1 or 2 wins away from silver and I have to make no mistakes (mistakes that I notice) to go even with silver players at best. They are honestly good in my eyes. I mean like silver 1/2, solid silvers. Golds are really strong and I need ganks to win.
How in gods name are people saying the difference is non existent? I will probably need some coaching once I reach silver, because I genuinely think it’s gonna be really hard to figure out what mistakes I’m making now.
TLDR how many level differences are there? It feels like every time I reach the next rank I get whooped like I’m iron again. The challenge is fun, but I feel like I don’t even see 90% of the mistakes I’m making.