What's worse...someone who is an Elitist but is actually very very good at what they do? Or someone who is a Elitist but is terribly average at best and poor at their job at worst?

If someone is actually good at something, most of the time, they rarely have to talk up themselves. There might be some initial grandstanding but usually they just go do their thing and other people are the ones who praise them and maybe they may or may not let it go to their head and THEN it might be annoying for some people.

In my eyes, the people that boast on how awesome they are all the time are probably just average at best or maybe even not very good. Why would you have to talk yourself up constantly if you can just *show* someone how good you are in some difficult content? This is what i see people getting annoyed by when it comes to elitism. It's all the up talking going on nonstop by people who can't just calm themselves and just play. So this is what I picture when someone is upset by an Elitist being a pain.