Explaining Every League Rank 

As an average iron rank enjoyer i confirm my pc is indeed a toaster

i think that the gap between a diamond and a challenger its massive

Being a lol player who doesn't rank and who prefers to enjoy the game I see this as an absolute victory 😂

I am a low gold mmr player (sometimes silver 1) and I suck mechanically compared to my peers. But watching content online has helped me so much to climb to this rank.

actually it's true as a gold player, I'm always focussed on myself and finding a way to solo carry

Or you can be like me, going 0-5 in wins of my first placements ever, with overall a crap performance, and getting placed GOLD II. My friend who I played every single one of those placements with? IRON. I still have no explanation but I can flex that I'm a gold player with 0 wins in my first ever season getting ranked I guess.

As a hard stuck plat player, I can confirm our egos are massive

You know I always wondered if there are insane players that just play norms or aram that are just unknown.

the plat part is accurate af

High bronze, silver and low gold is pretty much the same

theres still a huge difference in mechanical skill between diamond and >masters players. i would say diamond has A tier mechanics and masters/gm have S. if ur masters/diamond with good mechanics, u can play a carry in lower elo games and win with just mechanics most of the time

As a bronze player i am both offended and surprised by how true and accurate this was

I don't think bro realised that iron players nowadays be freezing lanes and shi

I'm gold 2 and the amount of games that I lost because someone quits and/or the entire teams surrenders at 16 with scaling champions is astounding 💀

I am smurfing with new account like 2-4 times a year and I have to tell you... times have changed drastically. When I started in season 5, bronze and silver players didnt even know what a ward is. Now you can see silver players actually doing macro rotations, 131, objective callings and other things and generally speaking the level of knowledge has improved in all divisions over the years. I know low elo players are still really bad in the game but Its not so tragic anymore and you can test it on your own. Its interesting to see it.

8 tips for climbing from someone who has done it since season 1: But first: Getting a lot of comments asking, "what rank are you", and ones specifically arguing with the points I've made. I mentioned it in the comments, but I'm master this season on my main (it's linked in the comments below if you care to look), I've taken a step back from League recently to focus on IRL things, so I won't be climbing much going forward, will probably decay a lot. I've been as high as Grandmaster before. As for your disagreements, I don't care what a hard stuck silver thinks, and no, you aren't high elo if you are gold/plat, and you aren't good at climbing. These tips are aimed for Iron - Silver players who make up the vast majority of ranked players, things that I've seen as common issues in their play. If you think you are above these tips in some way, then fine. But that doesn't mean they aren't correct. For everyone else who just wants to read some tips about climbing, these are for you: 1. Make sure you can run the game at 60fps AT LEAST. If you can't, consider an upgrade to your PC. It doesn't take much to run league at 60. 2. Use hard wired ethernet connection, wifi is significantly worse. (this is probably the biggest offender for a lot of players). 3. The game is ALL about macro, this means decisions you make around objectives/lanes. study lane freezing/pushing, rotating, roaming, jungle paths, ward placements, etc. If you are lost on this topic watch high elo streamers play and see what they do. 9 times out of 10 they are doing the right thing in this regard. Look at how the game reacts to that play vs how your games play out. How did the minion waves look. Watch where they stand in lane during times they have great warding in the side bushes compared to when they don't. This is far more important than being able to kill your opponents in lane, riot killed that part of the game YEARS ago. It's a passive macro game to climb now. This follows into the next tip, which is even more important. 4. LOOK AT YOUR MINIMAP. constantly. I mean ALL OF THE TIME. Every few seconds glance down at it, check your wards and see if you see anybody, then check the other lanes where your teammates are and see if you can account for all of the enemies. If you can't see the jungler and you haven't seen him for a while, play safe. Even if you have a potential kill on your hands. This goes for the other enemy laners as well. This game is so snowball-y that all it takes is for you to get caught slipping ONCE during an enemy roam/gank and you lose your tower, and then the game. 5. Itemization. This is the BIGGEST one. Don't just follow cookie cutter builds online. Those builds are pointless to look at because 9 times out of 10 they are general purpose builds that don't account for what you could be facing. For example, as a marksman, don't build kraken into an enemy team full of assassins, even with the nerf shieldbow will save your life. But if you don't see assassins and they have more tanks. For the love of all that is holy build a kraken. If you see the enemy team is bopping with a ton of auto-attack damage, build that damn steelplated boots. Be willing to pivot your build to counter your opponents champs. Oh, and if you are the one with the gold/kills. Please build an IE/Rabadons. These "damage booster" items are NECESSARY to carry. They are worth at least 1 and a half items at least. I would get these items 3rd if you can. DO NOT BUILD BLOODTHIRSTER 1ST OR SECOND ON ANY CHAMP FOR ANY REASON. That item is great later on for sustain, but it has no attack speed, and only OK ad. It gives you very little damage for it's cost. You hit like a wet noodle with it and you might as well not even be attacking. If you need lifesteal that badly pick up a bork. It's slightly less but it gives attack speed AND a damage proc. It might be not have crit but it has enough innate damage to make up the difference. Still, if you listened to my early advice you would already have a shieldbow for survivability in these games and you could focus on getting damage items at this point. 6. Your teammates are going to be bad. That's normal. You can't stop them from making bad plays, but you might be able to save those bad plays from being worse. If your team is going to group for an objective that they obviously can't win think of what your next decision should be. Do you have access to a nearby objective you can take by yourself to offset what's about to happen? 4 deaths (1200 gold) and a lost objective, maybe a dragon/baron are big losses but if you can take a tower or 2 in a lane and open up the game that forces the enemy to send players to stabilize that lane, effectively stripping some of that loss away for your team. If you don't think you can have that kind of impact, aka the towers are too high health you aren't a great tower/killing champ then go help your team, be the reason they win that stupid fight. 7. Play the meta. It's meta for a reason. Look at the best meta champs, find the ones that are simplest/ you are most comfortable on and stick to them. Don't play the flashy high skill champs, even if you think are you good at the game you won't always be playing at 100% and then those games YOU will be your team's liability. No need to bring on extra losses you can avoid by simply picking easy champs. 8. And finally, play a LOT of games. Climbing involves a lot of RNG due to bad players being placed on your team, and some games you won't be playing well. That's all fine and normal. You have to play a lot of games to climb. Even Tyler1 took multiple months of playing all day every day to climb to challenger and he's actually already good at the game. If you only play a game or 2 a day, you won't climb. If you don't think you can dedicate the amount of time I'm talking about here to the game, climbing in ranked probably isn't for you, and that's ok. I have way more fun playing ARAMs than I EVER have playing ranked, and a ton of people are only aram these days. Remember, if climbing isn't fun for you it probably isn't FOR you. And that's ok. It's definitely not a healthy lifestyle. Playing the game for fun is definitely more rewarding anyway. Edit: The meta is the meta for the reason, ignore it if you wish but it won't end well for you. The amount of people who successfully one trick non-meta champs are few and far between, and if you are at the level where you need these tips, respectfully, you aren't one of those few players. At least not yet. Edit 2: Seeing a lot of hot takes in these comments, if you are seriously interested in climbing, I wouldn't read them. They are incredibly short sited.

The master one is pretty accurate, you see the same 10 people depending at which time you play.

And then there is "no rank" people like me try to play league of legends just for fun with my 4 premade

This is pretty accurate. However, two things worth noting: Mental; Not everyone has a strong mental. Some Master players Might be Grandmaster or even Challenger level, but they have terrible mental are easily tilted, and crack under pressure. This is a VERY big deal. - Champion one tricks; One tricks are a problem. I've had one guy who was Platinum (In normal draft pick game) Absolutely stomped my team and gave me hell. Next match his champ got banned. Guess what? I felt like i was fighting a new player... He had no idea what he's doing The combos were terrible, he couldnt gank for shit, and just like that we won one of the easiest games ever. - Which is why many people will always tell you, reduce your champion pool as much as you can but dont stick to just one champion. you should have AT LEAST 2 champions you are confident with and have two roles you can play well. And finally, YOUR MENTAL... Don't tilt easily, keep calm dont perma ff over anything and everything, dont flame your teammates OR yourself. Besides that, enjoy the game friends, and remember, it really is just a game, dont let a defeat ruin your day! :)

Challenger: The dream of every kid. But everyone has to grown up, and accept reality.

As a Silver player that has played in iron, i can say, iron is way better than silver, in silver everyone thinks its a pro player that cant climb because got bad teammates, but in iron? Nobody cares, the players pick whatever it likes and focus on fun instead of blaming everyone, i much prefer the iron rank than the silver that i belongs now =(

"Gold players could 1v1 someone with a higher elo and win, if they understand the matchup" Yeah, I know how to mash warwick q, how could you tell?

He forgot to mention the egos of the diamons player, it's truly a sight to watch. On a first blood for the ennemy team, half of your team leaves the game. Now this is another universe 😂

in Brazil it's D in all ranks, according to the proplayers/streamers

I was watching a podcast of broken by concept 2 great coaches and they were explaining how hard it is to get a master elo student and push him to challenger, all this year before listening to they're words i just thought master to chall is like a little Push from plat 1 to d4 but they said imagine taking a student at iron 4 and push him to gold 1 thats the LP equivalent but it's actually 10 times more difficult cause you already fighting amazing player's to win . Whoever is trying to get challenger or is already challenger has my respects

i'm surprised how you've been able to detail every elo with the most reasonable and consistency speech, i sub on this video

i can confirm the plat elo ego theory

iron is high elo what are you talking about. its just so high that it loops back around so most people just think its trash

The lack of map awareness is very significant in silver based on my experience a lot of my teammates have and had “map blindness” meaning the don’t look the map often for champions and pings or not at all. No matter how many times I try to make a cross map play [taking towers and dragons (if I am bot side)] or try for a roam or flank it’s simply not enough because of “map blindness” for the most part and not knowing what to do or knowing but not doing for whatever reason (griefing).

Anything below grandmaster is low elo since you can just abuse duo queue to master.

For those who say that the gap between lets say D2 and Challanger is massive are at the same time wrong and correct. How? Well, if you look at rank and skill progression you will notice that they are huge gaps between each ranks from iron up to low diamond, but those are gaps that can be easily improved on by fixing a major gameplay issue each player has. In D2 to Challenger its a little bit different. Since the mastery of the game is already on a high level everything that is left are just minor improvements that eventually can give big results (for example a jump in rank from D2 to Masters), but this obvsly doesnt mean that those are easy things to do, especially since its really hard to spot those gameplay failures on your own in the first place.

I hit gm this season but my map awareness needs some work. Only when I tryhard on my main I look at the map and track the enemy jg . When I'm playing with friends it's indeed a different game

Plat in my experience has been where everyone has mastered mechanics. I've had a lot of matches where I underestimate someone, and then suddenly I get my teeth kicked in and think "they champion can do that wtf?" Map awareness is still bad most games but you can tell many people made it to plat through sheer mechanics alone

and then there is Agurin who is flamig his challenger teammates for being shit while almost having 2k lp

Gold player here. Hi, I am in gold. It's rough out here to witness your team throw late game because everyone is trying to be the hero, dies, then creates an unwinnable 4v5 or 3v5 scenario because the end game death timers are like 45 seconds +.

I like that he suggests that for most ranks, the ranks below them are low ELO. Sadly I started out as a support main, and never learned how to farm so the highest I've ever gone is Silver. Hello from near the bottom.

iam plat since 4 years. The thing is if i would play more iam sure i would reach dia but i dont wanna play all day XD. Iam just not good enough to reach it in fewer games/ ive been plat 2 99lp before the adc item changes after that droped to p4 0lp in like 10 days. Feels like they patched me trolls and afks lol. Currently getting better tho.

As a challenger player it cracked me up when you rated diamond mechanics as s+.

The worst thing about low elo, is that every match is a coinflip. It doesn't matter, how good you are, faker couldn't carry an iron game, because it depends on the enemy team. How stupid they are, how many smurfs are there...

This is that meme, "Holy shit, I'm high elo" guy while being gold 4

As a Diamond 2 player i think you gave to much credit to the lower elos mechanical skills, i 100% agreed that until diamond 3 everybody is trash, this is my 3 season and im ayming to get to masters and i problably will because at this point i think that your macro is what wins u games if u improve that u will climb

Me playing 2000 games last season in iron II on my 20 fps 150 ping potato:

I came back after like 4 years of no league. My peak was gold 1. Im now hardstuck silver 1-2 Tbh the game feels the same. Just theres always 1 player on your team or the other that is clearly a tad bit ahead of the curb. And people are very prone to fighting for no reason. Its likely due to map awareness. If 5 are alive and your alone bot, the top laner is top, and 4 of them are missing and your midlaner based, you probably shouldnt even think of pushing the wave unless you got some deep vision lmfao.

I dont know if being bronze is me being bad or enemy 400k mastery lvl 680 jinx is good

Honestly as a low elo player, I think my map awareness and decision making is better than my mechanics. i usually lose or go even in lane but then catch up later cuz i play with my buddies who are higher elo and it’s easier to pick up on map awareness versus mechanics from others.

Plat and Gold are fun, Diamond is more toxic than a nuclear waste pool

Becoming a jg main has been my greatest decision for climbing, since all i do is watch the map, and play my One trick, skarner, who is one of the top 5 best JG's in my elo.

No there is way too many master players, you cannot know them all anymore. This is true for gm/chall tho

"cool jacket" Bro if you ever show up in any public place with a challenger jacket and people know what it means, you are definitely getting bullied

you forgot to mention that most iron players rarely play the game, i barely have like 70 hrs on the game

for me it's been 2 years as a platinum player, I really can't climb the diamond because it's kinda a maze or prison, 70% bad team, and 30% my bad gameplay, someday I will get out of that elo.

The thing with lower ranks such as silver is that they watch micro and macro guide vids on youtube, and immediately after then spam the actions of said videos. These actions sound and seem high leveled but 9 times out of 10 it was in the wrong situation and doesn't go as planned most of the time.

Lots of people saying about macro being the major difference between lower and higher elo players... Well, macro in league is quite easy, especially in random soloq games, it really is mechanics that makes most difference between like challenger and diamond player. If you look at the replays of games you lose, you can tell SOME mechanical mistake you make in pretty much every fight, a mistake which probably decided if you end up winning or losing the game. Sure, you can't see macro that easy, it's not so obvious, but macro only requires simple solutions of you, it's mostly mechanics that determines if you lose your game or not. And by mechanics I obviously mean more things than just landing your skillshots, it's also positioning, kiting, remembering enemy cooldowns, losing minion aggro, jungle clearing, camera control and many more. This is why korea is so much better at the game, they tend to open games early on if only someone dies so they must have great mechanics in order for their team not to lose morale. Many streamers who played in korea (e.g, thebaus, tyler) also said that their macro is actually average but their mechanics are great, even in lower ranks like plat or diamond. One thing that makes huge difference tho is wave management, but I wouldn't be so certain to call it macro since it doesn't really change the way you move around the map

League is played by 100 million people every month. Kinda weird to say that only the 10,000 players with the highest rank are high elo

Just your average Diamond player with S+ mechanics, nothing out of the ordinary! Matter of fact, I think peak mechanical competence is achieved around Gold III. I once saw Faker playing Vladimir get solo-killed by a G4 Brand with Ignite, so my theory is pretty much confirmed at this point. I also agree with map awareness being the only other relevant indicator of skill, although 'copying professional players without applying critical thinking' could arguably be added as a third category.

Diamond and Platinum being middle ranks is interesting, considering plat 4 alone is too 10% of the player base.

most irons are or trash or hardstuck because of trash players

Iron-Plat = Low Elo (There is absolutely no skill difference between iron and plat, other than the lower ranks having more griefers) Diamond = High Elo rejects, Master-Challenger Smurfs, and Boosters Master-Challenger - High Elo

A few summaries and grades make no sense. Golds could not 1v1 higher elo opponents and win if they knew the matchup. Also how do silvers have "B" mechanics and golds "A" mechanics. They are 80% of the playerbase in those two leagues. Gold is where most of the hardstuck players live. Last season alone I can't even begin to count all the times I saw players on my team that had between 1-2k games played and this was half way through the season.

Bro I’m iron but I’m pro, let’s be honest most of games I got S, I played against platinum and won, but I hate ranked games due to community toxic

I'm iron because i don't play ranked Don't confuse it bozo

league assigns my map awareness to A and any sort of farming/skill to A-, yet i am still in silver. Its probably a gaming chair, isnt it?

Like about 2 years I was bronze, yesterday I got silver (after 100 games) :) guys I feel good, it's like a drug

As a measly 100 lp master peaker , the gap between top 50 chall and master is bigger than the gap between plat and master imo. I managed to gap players up to GM , chall players however it feels like they play a different game ( in scrims , i realise they run it down in solo Q from time to time just like anyone else )

EUW Plat is where the Kassadin, Talon and Evelynn mains go to have a mental breakdown every few weeks or so just to do it all over again and again and again and again until the one day they actually reach 100 games before a permaban

Plat is more elo hell than iron, I swear 40 games 70% wr this season, great improvement, started from silver IV I reached plat 3 and instantly had 1cs/min teammates who dive inhib turrets or do first drakes at 15 min (enemy jungler was afk for most of the game) went to 55% wr real quick Fell into gold 2 and suddenly, teammates who know how to ping or manage objectives

Where is the emerald?

Im now dia3-70 lp with 30-32+ each game and with dia1-low master mmr and can say that the switch from dia4,3-1 has been so big you can almost call it a different game.

Bro this is only in ur region in other regions like NA some shit is not accurate at all I would say literally everyone in NA if they r non jungler bad macro.

It's not just that gold players (by and large) haven't yet figured out that they have to play as a team to win, they actively resist the idea and are out to prove that no they don't. The whole concept still offends them.

Imagine gold rank player actually cares more about team fight instead of solo pve smth like that

im 100% sure riot hates old players and love new players i tested it out playing 2 rankeds on both 280 lvl account and lvl 30 account fresh account on both accounts i won with above average stats,farm,vision and on lvl 30 account i got gold 2 but on 280 lvl account i got iron 2 :???????

I wish low elos in different regions wouldnt be so different. Comparing EUNE Bronze to NA Bronze is just no comparison people in Europe try theyr best they doesnt lack that much mechanical skills (even tho they act like they playing solo mode). Climbing in EU is WAY harder than other players think

Rank 1 Challenger: everyone outside top 10 is low elo to them. Rank 1 KR Challenger: everyone who didn't reach top 1 KR Challenger is low elo. 3 times world winner: anyone who isn't winning world more than 2 times = bad

Now saying beginners that can't barely even play basic champions get good and they below mastery 60 and they gold can get gold just from winning 1 game🤦

I would rank my map awareness like gold and my mechanical skills like iron IV.

As a Silver Player, I can agree that I don't know how to apply the base knowledge. All I do is Kill, Cs, and Push.

I stopped taking rank in league seriously a long time ago 😂

I'm pretty sure I jumped into ranked too soon, I was a giga-noob w/ like 38% winrate so I got dumped into Iron, it's a few months from that point and I'm consistently over 50% winrate in all my roles especially on mid which often goes above 70% (albeit small amount of games since I just started doing mid out of team frustration last month), but this season started rough with 11/20 of my first games having AFK players or griefs which gutting my Mid winrate from 77% down to 30-something over one night as all of these games happened in one night, not to mention I've had several very winnable games where teamies just call GG regardless how well I'm playing which is very frustrating

i like that from description - platinum is just THE worst (i would assume there's some personal drama involved)

I'm stuck in I3 on Ranked Flex, caused by my friend who inted all of my games and wanted to FF15

I’m usually stay in silver.. but I played more and got better to gold then.. I wanted to be better so I made it to plat a lot of games.. I stopped I don’t want to be a no lifer just wanna prove I can make it to plat I don’t want to go beyond because I won’t have a life no more it’ll be too much on a grown man we all know lcs players or higher elo is a bunch of teens or a grown up with no other real responsibilities sorry it’s the truth!

other than gold i agree but gold players doesnt really have that high mechanics tbh kinda overrated right there

I got in iron due to a combination of poor pc perofrmance and net issues, now its hard to get out because everyone in this rank either suffers from the same problems or is mental (last game i had i carried as kindred and a riven that was 5/12 [for context i ended up 22/9]) flamed me, "threatened" me with farming jungle and told me i didnt deserve to win because i killled the lucian that botlane fed when she was around and got killed by bolivear

I have always disagreed with the mentality that if you aren't masters you are "low elo." Yes, I am fully aware that the gap between ranks at that point is MASSIVE, there's no doubt of that in my mind. However from a pure statistical perspective once you reach diamond you are among the top 15% of the game. That is objectively high elo.

the bronze one is spot on. I think i have alright map awerness though, But as the video said i cant build items and i dont feel like learning to do so i will learn through just playing the game

Yeeeeah I play at the Platinum level. Game keeps me brown because system Rajot its lottery. 5Seeding matches for several years always i have trolls . My friend play have 5game go Platinium...I play at the same level as him and he confirmed it! There's a lot more to write

As a hardstuck plat 2-1 player, ever since emerald came out it’s been shitfest after shitfest for either the enemy team or me and my team but i play twitch adc so the losses are 10% more my fault

Imagine being pro and challenge higher rank players and win against them as iron that me

As a plat player i will tell you that plat is for sure not S rank mechanics. B at best. I myself am more of a brain player than hands player, so my own mechanics (in plat) are very likely on a C level, and i'm fine in plat. If there was only as little difference in mechanics as between S and S+ between plat and challenger, i'd be getting roflstomped every game with my old man hands (im 28 but my hands think im 60)

I have a 4k 144hz setup and i’m about to get demoted to iron LOL

Been bronze for 2 years for: playing with frends that are bad, getting tilted at stupid losses, playing a lot of normals. Last week i said to them and myself "i wanna climb solo" and got from bronze 4 to gold in 5 days with 70% winrate 😂 I've to take surgery and be in bed for 30 days, lets see where i can get 🤔🤔🤔

my personal rankings Iron D- D- Bronze D+ D- Silver C D Gold C+ C- Plat C+ C Diamond B C D2 B+ C+ Master B+ B Grandmaster A- B+ Challenger A A- Academy A A LCS A+ A+ LEC S A+ LPL S+ A+ LCK S S

I have the highest DPS in every game by around 5 - 10k, no matter what role, yet I always get an 0/8 gragas top with a 11/0 teemo and a graves jg who can glare at you and kick your but into next week. IDK I feel like the matchmaking is a bit.. bad. put the crap players with other crap players and the people who know what they are doing in 'higher' skill level games. maybe increase the amount of LP based on your win streak, to incentivise winning, and playing well instead of 14 Lp every win, and 40 every loss. I have 47 wins and 14 losses and im still in iron 1. I just play arenas now anyways, but it wont be around forever.

I was iron for more than 2 years (curently bronze) and my internet and computer are good but just I saw these ashe electrocute builds or rakan with first strike... Idk what I am lacking now to climb so I am stuck again...

u just gave mechanical skill to a diamond player same as challenger XDXDXD?XD? diamonds are literally nohands

People play in toaster until around gold 1, the game charges faster from platinum onwards

This is reality, but every other player would rank it as this: Iron 4 - Challenger 999lp =Trash Challenger 1000lp -Pros = ONLY some good people, Low elo depending on who we are talking Chinese Rank 1 and like 3 more famous guys = High Elo Dellusional guys calling Masters and GM low elo... LOL

My builds are decent, i win lane pretty much every game have map on 200% to stay aware but still cant get out of bronze for some reason my example is my last game: I play Jarvan Jungle, i get 4/4 Drakes i gank mid 8 times pretty much succesfull everytime(My zed ends up 5/12 somehow) My Teemo top wouldnt stop pushing sett, leading to him getting R'd undertower and dying over and over I dont know how to prevent this really, i ended up 16/5 while everyone in my team except for my ADC was 0.5 KD atleast

years stuck in bronze and then went straight up to gold in less than a month. Consistently climbing now. Did my skills really improve that much? Nah. It's a fucking lottery and i finally won.