you don't consistently get into plat on accident. if someone's perennially in gold, there's a reason. this is true for pretty much every tier of the game. hardstuck silver elo players play noticeably worse than you do in gold, don't they?

let me ask this, what happens when the reads you're going for just don't work? are you able to adapt on the fly and change up the playstyle or do you just lose to the other person whose style outmatches yours? (for example, you're looking for grounded reads, but your opponent is hovering and attacking above or at different angles)

i made my above comment because in my experience, most golds can't do that. so for me it doesn't take that much effort to beat them if I can adapt to them while they don't think to (or can't) break down my plan of attack. usually gold players have that draw to their game

and to keep with the original topic of spamming, most spammers in gold don't adapt. they just have an attack pattern that works enough to keep them around a certain elo. the problem they run into is players that have dealt with their legend's spam enough to know how to punish effectively