Tier 2 lockdown is not a different game from tier 3 lockdown.
All good tier 3 players do just as good in tier 2.

Yes. Why do you think I said good and not best?

"i mean ppl with skill,not the ones with the most dmg all the time"
How do you tell the difference?

There's really no way to measure skill in Lockdown except by looking at average performance in games. Caps and defends depend heavily on how capable the opponent is at capping (can't cap what is yours, can't defend what is not yours). Damage, sadly, is the most reliable way to measure performance since a good damage dealer will always get more damage compared to the rest.
Then you have to decide if a good damage dealer is good mainly because of skill or because of some other factor. Especially in fast-paced striker dominated matches, even a slight edge in a non-skill factor can swing damage collection to your favor.

I'm going to say there's a large group of people who are equally skilled in terms of their predicting abilities, adaptability, and reaction time. However, those that shine are the ones with slightly better non-skill factors.
There are more "pros" in T2 than in T3 because the extra factors play less of a role.

Bullpig Danielflame Biccboi Offense armor Cryptikaa Forest Dragon Planet Devastation Xdestroyer Mrunleash Kiplik Deala Lockdosn Sworsie Thelkiam Eno Chosei Jayzio and many others who I can't remember.

Don't you think it's weird how you wish to distinguish the "skilled" from the what I like to call "damage hoarders" when damage is the only way practical way to measure how skilled someone is?
The reason for my ideal "skill match" is to show that a true measure of skill is very hard to achieve in Lockdown. Saying one person who got lots of damage is less skilled than another person who got lots of damage requires assumptions that are based on opinion. Have you noticed that all the names being listed are people who consistently perform well in T2 Lockdown, but hardly any explanations were given about their movements/strategies that supports superiority in skill?

Suppose two people, X and Y, perform equally well in Lockdown matches. Even assume they use 100% identical loadouts and use the same class.
1) Person X plays on a $1000 gaming laptop with 2G dedicated graphics. Person Y plays on a 8 year old general-purpose laptop with just over the minimum requirements needed to run SK and no dedicated graphics.
2) Person X has a fiber-optics connection and the server is located 100 miles away. Person Y has a cheap cable connection to the server located 800 miles away. He/she often has to use wifi because family members need the internet as well.
3) Person X uses a high sensitivity gaming mouse and a game pad. Person Y uses a crusty touchpad and keyboard.
4) Person X has being playing Lockdown for a year. Person Y started playing Lockdown a couple months ago.

Person Y is clearly more skilled than person X given all of the extra information. However, any person who played with each in the past two weeks would say they are equally skilled.
So your question boils down to "Which T2 Lockdown player(s) do you admire most?"

In reference to what Auto said, I believe that skill is how good someone helps their team and how well that someone does their role.

Of course, I have to give my "Best Player of T2 Award" to Elandyr. Totally not because he is in my guild. Well, partially.

In terms of strategy, Elan typically does a delaying role. Elan can take on a whole team with a toothpick and his iceburst, and he averages over 6k on his worst games.

Case closed for me.

@Tehepicwin Well its no surprise to me that you would pick your own fellow brick squad member. However I disagreed when you said Elandyr was best t2 award for delaying role. I'm guessing you haven't seen spamlet. Dont get me wrong Elandyr is an okay player I just dont think he would be able to handle 6 professional players (people with uvs and hammer). But still Spamlet is the best at delaying role so far that I've seen.

Right he doesn't play anymore. But his achievements and skill are like no other.

I'm surprised no one mentioned Contri as the best T2 player yet.

I used to think Contri was some rude little kid hanging around Feller most of the time back when he played T2 and I did not know the Truth of Contrism.

That's all.

do u mean me? uh.. /no i average 3k..

And Coolspider man of course. (No seriously fight that guy and he will derail your self-esteem.)
And no. There is a person named lockdosn Sworsie who completely pwns *facepalm

Well, it's hard to say since that everyone who's labeled as a "pro" in T2 LD could have a lot of ASI usages in their hands, a good GC, and good latency. Though, have to say one person that pops up in my mind is pretty much Il-RCS-Il since he tends to have almost no ASI at all (striker shield gives the med asi boost, yet that's it), an average latency (2-4 bars), a bit more than average GC, and tends to switch between AT and no AT depending if a try hard or not (he doesn't try much unless total carry). Also, that he could get a very good overall score for 80% of the time.

I for one would like to see these 'professionals' do something that sounds improbable, but not impossible, even just once.

In a one versus five situation (let's assume the Pro's team is a bunch of newbie Cobalts, getting stomped by the sixth person from the opposition, and the professional being the one lone ranger) take down an entire mob in a single life. The catch? The single person has only a Flourish, while the opposition has Unstable Lazy HATmmers and Kiddie-wATtt Pulsars. All of which are being used in such a way that would make Jempire cry tears of joy. And be able to live to capture the point before the mob respawns and beats them down anyway, because Tier 2 has devolved into "no fun allowed; the game".

I bet you any amount of CE that even with Auto Target and ASI, that won't be an easy task. Not bagging on the skill level of any of the mentioned players. I'm sure they're great at what they do. But individual skill alone isn't enough anymore.