is the line between tier 1 and 2 not real?

riot's league system made it so that tier 1 is artificial, the first year of partnership we had truly awful teams

now I feel that in both tiers 90% are almost indistinguishable then there's the 10% like aspas forsaken alfa etc, like ara was in tier 3(?) a year ago now he's doing ok, it's all about the environment and opportunities and not pure skill level from my perspective

like what I mean is that if a consistent tier 2 player were given the chance to work in a proper tier 1 environment and roster they would do just fine, since doma just did that

(edited for a bit more statements and points)

is this ragebait

wait nvm I read the post and tbh idk

wouldn’t say 90% but the upper part of tier two and the lower part of tier one are near identical, not to say that there arent some questionable teams in tier 1 though

There is a huge gap between the top T2 and everything else. Top Tier 2 teams like Envy, Stellae, etc would be fine against most T1 teams I guess.

a lot of teams that were formed in 23' were formed cause of familiar names and nepotism

There's a gap but tbh even that gap is created artificially due to better structure, better coaching and basically everything that's supportive like training, practice etc etc is better in tier 1 than tier 2 which does create a gap but if you somehow equalise everything many tier 2 teams would go toe to toe with most tier 1 teams .

when i watched penny's stream he said that tier 2 is harder than t1 bc of the randomness of t2 teams