If you want to have fun, don't bother with ranked.

I've been playing League for more than three years, so I can safely say I have had a lot of experience. But it wasn't until about a month ago that I decided to tackle ranked because I thought, "Hey, I've been playing this game for a long time. Why am I still a Silver III when I could at the very least get to Gold?" Since then I have been playing only ranked games, and I'm currently Silver I, so I've been climbing the ranked ladder without much trouble. However, ever since I decided to play ranked, I have become quite the toxic player. I have been flaming my teammates, and sometimes intentionally feeding. I have never behaved this way in all the years I have played league. I don't know if my account is going to get banned at this point, but if it does all I can say is that I deserve it. Before getting into ranked games, I would only play normal games. Yeah, sometimes it would get a bit frustrating, because occasionally we all get those teammates who feed and/or happen to be toxic, but over all I was able to shake it off pretty easily because whether you win or lose, normal games don't count for anything, so in the end I just had fun with it. In ranked, the atmosphere is entirely different. Everyone goes full try-hard, and will flame you for any little mistake you make (almost everyone that is, I have played with a few nice people every here and there, but most people who play ranked unfortunately aren't like that). Not only that, but the toxicity in ranked games is much higher than it is in normal games. In all but a few games, I have had at least one asshole on my team to deal with, and when you deal with assholes day, after day, after day, what happens is that you yourself eventually become an asshole. Take it from me. Normally I'm a very kind and gentle person, but after doing some ranked games, I became very salty and irritable. With that said, if you plan on going into some ranked games, my advice would be to never do it alone. At least have one or two friends with you, or better yet a full pre-made party. But if you just wanna have fun, don't ever go into ranked! EVER! I can guarantee you that if you go into ranked you will see a difference in your mood after a while. Now, this is just my personal experience, and my sheer opinion. Maybe it's not the same for everyone, but I'm sure a lot of you who reading this can relate. For all the people in the league community who are nice, I just wanna say thank you and keep doing what you're doing. We NEED people like that these days, not just in league, but in life as a whole. As for the people who make playing this game such a pain in the ass, well, I'm just going to type a bunch of word garble for the sake of not offending anyone: ALKSgahoieghlaewphg9afishdgao;pisdghjaos;idghoiw;engqopsdafibhvoiq;LWEKTPY9Q8WHAIORSFBN POWAS;ZHGROPAS;DGHVOPASEGHQ9P2348RHIGBNILNVERW98FDSPGHBEPNAIO;SDHGBAPOISDHZGNEP0A9S;IOYHDGNPW93EIORSBDFLZNJO AILKojhgp9eiorshgbfnopaz8sdgho;gaidlszhfgjn;lasifbhxipoagwhb3eos;idgkhbspdhlbfjk. Thank you.