1. Tier 1 Pros (These guys are on another level. They only know how to win games, so they never let the game go in a losing direction, and on top of that, their basic laning is suffocating)
2. Tier 2 Pros (Their laning is fucking insane, but when you watch their macro, you can definitely see the difference from Tier 1. You can spot the good ones among Tier 2 right away, and those guys usually go to Tier 1. The ones who stay in Tier 2 are either players who only rely on mechanics, or people spamming just 1~4 champions in solo queue to climb instead of practicing — they usually get stuck in Tier 2)
3. Coaches (Honestly, it's hard to call coaches good players. They're past their prime anyway, and they teach the game from a strategic angle, not as active players. You can clearly see them just casually playing solo queue like "oh, this patch meta seems okay I guess")
4. Streamers (Streamers are divided into 2 types)
4-1. Big Agency Streamers (No matter what the situation, they steer as clear as possible of anything that could stir up controversy. For example, an ADC streamer whose support picks a fight? = They just hard-block them and keep playing, slapping on an full mute/block and moving on)
4-2. Small Streamers (Maybe it's just me, but among these small streamers, the ones who hit their all-time peak this season have a certain trait — they get on this huge fucking high horse after hitting their peak rank and keep picking fights left and right.
If something rubs them the wrong way, they pick a fight, and if people ping them for messing up, they have a meltdown and start flaming out of pure paranoia. Meanwhile, when you check their stream, they're stroking their own ego in front of like less than 10 viewers. It's so fucking obvious they're never gonna break out of that small streamer zone)
Among the streamers I've personally run into, there's Kim Min-kyo, some VTuber who mainly plays mid lane mages, and Untara.
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Kim Min-kyo felt like he treads the line — he chats a fair bit but knows how to stay just short of crossing the line.
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Untara only gives calls to maximize the team's chances of winning, shuts out everything else, and if there's some mentally unstable kid, he just blocks that guy and keeps playing.
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The VTuber just straight-up turns off chat the moment anyone says anything.
In other words, streamers who keep their career going for a long time all have one thing in common — they avoid drama as much as possible. But these small streamer kids, maybe they just don't give a fuck about their own stream, but they're constantly caught up in paranoia, drunk on the viewers buttering them up, and they have this mentality where they have no idea what they're doing wrong and just think "I'm right, you're wrong." That shit is fucking annoying.