When its lower pop its harder to climb so in my eyes the plat today would all be high plat leg be4 and the g3 p1 and so on. Its because u are none stop matched with gold and very low gold u see more lower skilled players u think that. U have to always remember bad players are as hard to carry as they are easy to kill. The rules are now w/e farms the bad players better wins. Thats why duos always have 2 pump or 1 and1 pump 1 side node