Why is Gold considered high ELO?

[quote=regatto]id love to know. i know gold is like the top 2 percent of players, but still. a player at gold level can't really be considered high ELO. your play only starts becoming truly relevant to your rating at around diamond level imo (maybe generously plat 2/1). just wonderin yo.[/quote]

[quote=Embracing]Gold isn't high elo. Last season, when you reached gold, you're only at the "I have a basic correct understanding of how the game works" stage. To be fair this season many gold 5 players don't even understand how the game works. http://lolmatches.com/charts Around 10% of the players are gold. Highly doubt thats high elo considering there are many who don't play ranked and many who aren't even lvl 30 I'd say high elo is from plat to challenger.[/quote]

[quote=regatto][quote=Embracing] Gold isn't high elo. Last season, when you reached gold, you're only at the "I have a basic correct understanding of how the game works" stage. To be fair this season many gold 5 players don't even understand how the game works. http://lolmatches.com/charts Around 10% of the players are gold. Highly doubt thats high elo considering there are many who don't play ranked and many who aren't even lvl 30 I'd say high elo is from plat to challenger. [/quote] i was refering to mobafire's guiding section putting gold ranked players under high ELO. ima edit my post to clarify that.[/quote]

[quote=regatto]wait why cant i edit my posts l0l.[/quote]

[quote=Vynertje]Actually, only plat+ is considered high elo on mobafire, only those ratings will get you featured[/quote]

[quote=Embracing]Ohh Yeah I brought that up before and a lot of people mentioned to change it to gold 2 and above but that discussion kinda died. I can bring it up again if you'd like. @Vynertje: Gold guides are on front page under the “High elo" section[/quote]

[quote=Vynertje][quote=Embracing] Ohh Yeah I brought that up before and a lot of people mentioned to change it to gold 2 and above but that discussion kinda died. I can bring it up again if you'd like. @Vynertje: Gold guides are on front page under the “High elo" section [/quote] Oh right, but they're not featured on the guides page (I checked nasus, for example)[/quote]

[quote=Vapora Dark]They're considered high elo for the High Elo section because comparatively, it is high elo. Bronze and silver encompasses 90% of the ranked playerbase. But only around 800,000 players ( on NA ) play ranked, while millions of players play League of Legends daily. 99% of those unranked players would be bronze or silver if they played ranked. So basically, as unnotable as gold may seem to a plat / diamond / challenger player, you still can't deny that gold is [i]far[/i] better than most of the LoL community, and to be honest, I rarely ever saw someone build completely wrong when I was in gold. Gold players tend to know their shit. The only way they fail compared to plats is they're just simply not as good at the game, both mechanically and when making fast decisions on the spot.[/quote]

[quote=DarkPercy]Embracing and the others, you might love these links slightly more the LoLMatches (lol holy shit that site haha). http://www.lolsummoners.com/stats/rankings/na http://www.lolsummoners.com/stats/rankings/euw EUW has considerably more players. Interestingly enough, EUW also has less Silver, less Gold, less Plat and less Diamond players but way more bronze players. I suppose this confirms V4p0r4's theory. More unranked people that get into ranked = more bronze peeps. Gold is the top 13.5% of ranked players... Which is probably really the top 2% of all players (considering unranked people as silver/bronze). Not bad at all but I'm still not sure about calling it high elo lol. I'm fine with their guides being in the high elo section but not really featured (and that's the way it is atm so GG)[/quote]

[quote=IShouldGetALife]Going by the NA stats would the accurate interpretation of elo hell actually be silver V since that is where the highest concentration of players are stuck?[/quote]