User blog comment:Mineko Charat Lucky/What makes Platinum players different from Gold, and Diamond to Platinum?/@comment-5185239-20131028014742

Platinum is good at abusing the jungler. One smart counter gank => lane won/lost in 90%. Enemy junglers camping a specific lane => gank/dive other lanes without worry. The better jungler wins the game in most cases unless one lane snowballs amazingly for whatever reason.

Drakes and turrets gain huge importance, games are rarely thrown at baron and people dont do the 25min+ farm fests like in silber/low gold. Splitpushing becomes a huge thing and obviously the abuse of rarely banned OPs is highly recommended (Tryndamere is rarely banned but a huge pain in the ass).

What I see from my gold friends is mostly uncoordinated play sometime (one mid roams while the other just farms mid without pushing), not knowing champion limits and looking at mana(Shens diving 300 hp renekton who turns the fight with his ult; people flashing while being oom trying to get kills) and a lot less importance on counterganks (95% of ganks get pulled off while the other jungler is doing wraiths or whatever).

I recommend you to just learn some op champ if its just about the rating, Anivia is not really good at this point as most mids are assassin based and have gapclosers or Gragas. Tryndamere is op as shit and stomps most tops early on (yes, even Malphite), Vi, Udyr and Lee are amazing junglers, Mid is the Assassin quartet (ahri, fizz, kass, zed) + Ori/Gragas, and bot is whatever, most Adcs hurt and most supports cc other champs (except Ashe, but shes cool too).