If you wouldnt play the same in a normal draft that you would in ranked, you are trolling in one or the other...period. Its the same game with the same ban phase with the same items with the same champions in it.
"I miss relaxing to a normal draft" You cant relax in ranked? What do you do different? Crack open a beer? Put your cat in your lap? I do not understand what the difference is?
Uncommon sense is hard to find anymore.
Faie4 votesMaybe for you, who is Silver 5, playing normals and playing ranked feels the same. However to me, who is Diamond 4, that luxury is not available. I cannot "relax" in ranked. I have to play my main role, play meta champions in that role, and focus extremely hard to win.
What if I want to enjoy a champion that I like, let's say Urgot? I can't play him in ranked, i'll get utterly smashed nine times out of ten because he is terrible. And what if I want to play something like Kindred Jungle? I'm not amazing with either the role or the champion, I'll have zero fun.
rtbf2216514121 votesWell here comes all the people who play for 'fun' (Trolling, not trying, etc) into ranked. Definitely means nothing.
Mysticman891 votesSince you mentioned it, I would be perfectly ok having an alcoholic beverage while playing normals, while I have a strict no alcohol policy when I'm diving into ranked. Normals are a big mishmash of skill levels in the same game, so a slightly intoxicated me (who is high plat) is probably still going to win against most players (since most players are gold or below) even if they were trying their best, and so theres no harm in it. In ranked on the other hand, everyone is theoretically around my skill level, so even a slight impairment is going to make it much more likely that I'll get outplayed.
Whether you think people 'should' or not, the reality is people aren't playing their best roles and best champs in normals (and where would you suggest people learn new champs/roles if not normals?), so people don't need to play at their best to keep up. There's also no limitations on premades, and ones ranked mmr has almost no correlation with their normals mmr, which can result in matches that would be extremely lopsided if everyone played at their best as it might be a team of silvers versus a team of diamonds.
In ranked, people wants to win as quickly and as effectively as possible. In normals, people don't necessarily want to win as quick. They generally want to win, but once they establish a lead, many people are more inclined to keep farming kills and trying to achieve their full build unstopppable fantasies, rather than pushing down the nexus.
It's also extremely fun to make things more interesting through 'handicaps'. If I find myself in a premade with a bronze player for some reason, I will pretty much never play janna support, since it's not fun for me since I'll completely run circles over everyone as someone who mains janna and probably plays her at a level beyond my rank with over 1 mil mastery points. I will however play janna adc or mid or similar, and I'll probably still do ok. It's fun for me because it's rediculous, it's probably funny to my teammates once they see I'm doing fine (since I main the champ and can pull it off), and it's probably more fun for my opponents who may have a chance compared to if I was playing a meta champ. Everyone is having more fun, so it seems strictly better than alternative approaches to normals.
