Why is diamond so toxic?

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I thought this was just a me thing something that only I thought/noticed but no, no matter where I go whenever someone mentiones the most toxic rank it’s always diamond, so I just wanna ask why?

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Friend of mine whose been all over from Plat to GM says that High Plat/Low Diamond (but especially the low Diamond part) is the worst range for toxicity because of 3 factors

  1. Lot of mechanically gifted but dumb players, or smart players with bad mechanics. They’ve plateaued here because you need both to get higher, and they’re frustrated because of it.

  2. Everyone thinks everyone else is the one holding them back from reaching Diamond/Masters

  3. Lowest range where players start really getting egos because they’re not a metal rank

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I wager its due to anxiety of wanting to get to Master’s to be “officially” good (generally, the wisdom was Plat was average and Diamond was ‘above average,’ though now I argue gold is average and Plat is above average, with Diamond now being ‘much better than average’).

That, and what Squashpup said.

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Because diamond is a mix of former masters who dropped a lot and think they’re better than they are, hard stucks who can’t climb any higher, smurfs, etc.

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So back in Season 11 to 13 I sat consistently (in that I mean I didn’t drop out of Diamond the entire seasons I got there) in Diamond as a Solo Queue Ana/Mercy/Lucio/Moira player and a Zarya/Rein/Orisa (I don’t remember if Sigma was around, so I’m pulling him from my list lol) player. I found a lot of cool players who were super chill and gave compliments and overall just busted one anothers chops about highs and lows.

But whenever I came across a toxic Diamond player it always seemed to be roughly the same. They’ve yoyo’d back and forth between Plat, Diamond, and Masters. So my guess is that they want to be GM so badly and they want to be top500 but never quite make it (and probably drop back down just as soon as they get close).

Having previously been hard stuck in low to mid Gold and then finally climbing through Plat and into Diamond, I got greedy in S12 and tried to climb to Masters (I was literally 3322 and thought I could power through the last week of S12 into Masters). That was the biggest mistake of my life. It being the last week I got pretty much every thrower and leaver that was trying to derank and I plummeted down to Plat again (after S13, because I struggled all through S13 to stay Diamond).

I’ve since given up trying to climb back up and am just happy if I can stay in mid to high Plat tbh.

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Everything above Silver until you get to GM (still a decent amount of toxicity), is quite toxic. Diamond is the point where you have to learn to drop the ego to keep improving. players by diamond know why games fail and what exactly went wrong, unlike say Gold where many games people just chalk to bad luck, which is easier to get less mad at

unfortunately that realization can take a while, making a ton of hard stuck, toxic, and volatile players

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