Another Marxist in South carolina ? You ' ve got to be shitting me ! Nice to know thoughP <| sep |> It ' s just a courtesy thing , but we enforce it here . A little background <| sep |> Haha ! That ' s awesome ! ! Thx <| sep |> I had completely forgotten about this one . Thank you for reminding me ! Zero was such a melancholic trip for me , seeing those little collectibles with their little stories in such an awful war made me feel things I never did before with a game . This song goes perfectly with that . <| sep |> So , first of all , I don ' t consider myself a high elo player . I reached Plat II season five with a good winratio , so I basically played Diamond V MMR games . It ' s not as different from gold than you might think . There is no indepth answer I can give you or rather , the answer would be so indepth that it would take hours upon hours to cover everything because it ' s not a wellhidden secret that makes these players better it is that they do everything a little better . The short summary is that they make fewer mistakes and capitalize on enemy mistakes more often and better . From my experience , if you want a starting point , restrict yourself to only a select few champions and play those champions only , no matter the patchmetamatchup . Get comfortable enough with a champion that you can think about all the millions of other things in your game other then how do I use my skills ? Achieve a level of mastery with your champions that you can blind pick them without worrying about matchups and then learn to play the macro game . Splitpushing , rotations , vision etc . This is usually the biggest discrepancy between silvergold and platlow dia . Plus , you need mental fortitude . Unless you are very talented the road to diamond is a true grind . Hundreds of games with little measurable improvement in terms of division . This wears a lot of people down and makes them frustrated , they tilt easily , rage , blame and feed once things start going the wrong way . This is just a sign of them not being ready to realise that they hit a wall and need to become better to advance . So you need to be not one of them and not be distracted by these players in your quest to become a BETTER not higher ranked player .