To those of you who decide "It's time to play a champ for the first time in ranked"

But it's your promotions! Why not play a champion I never played before to deny you a possible promotion?

No trust me I'm a main. I watched Redmercy and Nightblue3 play her on PBE.

Team bans my intent pick, enemy team bans my backup

Me: "I've been practicing an off meta pick in norms and won literally all my games"

Team proceeds to make speech about how meta picks are powerful and that they're sick of being in bronze because people refuse to play Vayne ADC or Lee Sin jg every game

Based on an actual experience

is easy, I'll be fiiiiine!

"WOW! HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST I DO SOMETHING TO HELP THE TEAM WIN IN RANKED! YOU TOXIC SCUM! REPORTED!" /s

Auto fill it happens bra. Sometimes Rito forces u to play a new champ cause it makes que times shorter.

Wow dont hurt people feeling's like that! It is just a game no need to be a toxic fuck! Let people have fun!

/s

I used to practise new champions in ranked, nothing special about ranked.

I see nothing wrong with this.

Played new for the first time in ranked the day she launched almost a year ago. Stomped the game.

doesn't need practice, has style.

And yet if I go into a ranked champion lobby and ask "Hey guys, I just bought Soraka. Do you want me play my mastery 6 support tryndamere main, or do you want me to first time Soraka?" what do you think most of my teammates will say?

That's right. They'll say "Fuck you you piece of shit if you pick tryndamere support I'm going ADC teemo and feeding and then I'm going to report you for trolling"

Sorry I got autofilled and only like/play two roles. Guess you will have to suffer because that is what Riot wants.

That said, good luck to players on EUNE.

Ranked Flex is pretty much their Normal Draft.

i decided to try out yasuo in a twisted treeline normal! and i was matched against a diamond taliyah lol

I played first time in ranked and it worked for me. Though I played against a top, and accepted going 30 CS down to get past the laning phase, to the team fight phase where I knew Tanks generally enough to smash the game.

There was this one beautiful moment though when Donger was shoving me under turret, and drew turret aggro for a half second. I clicked R. Many keks were had. He all-chatted after that he knew he done fucked up the moment he took the aggro.

But seriously though, plz don't if you can at all avoid it.

But we can't soon. Riot is planning to remove normals from the game. They already did in EUNE.

i feel like this is the same people who ONLY play ranked