People take normals more serious than ranked.
Hold that downvote. Actually hear what I'm about to say before you say anything.
So, I just started playing ranked this season. I've played since season 5's preseason, but I avoided ranked like the plague. I see the occasional trolls in normals, but it's at most maybe 1/10 games. Most people like they have normally functioning brains. They don't go AP Rengar mid. However, I recently decided I was going to go and do my placements for ranked. And guess what? I'm currently 2/6. Why is that? Because one game we have a top lane Taric who went 0/7 and proceeded to immediately afk after that. Then we have a god damn Rengar who builds runic echos and goes full AP, before selling it all at the end of the game and building a few AD items as if to hide it or something(that game also had a full AP nasus without a single tank item). One game. ONE GAME, out of those six losses, can I say that the team just did better; that we were just outplayed and we all played seriously. Hell even one of my two wins was barely a win considering none of them played seriously at all. This kind of shit happens maybe 1 outta 10 games in normals, and i'm currently 8 games into ranked, and I've had about 2 games that had 4 teammates that went into the game with the full intent of winning, and not the intent of going 0/12 at 15 minutes. Why the hell is this a problem? I thought people were exaggerating when they said how many trolls there were in this game, and how ungodly toxic they were; and that's cause I only played normals, which I would have hoped would've been the place where trolls just ran while, and people took a lot less seriously than ranked. But no. People in ranked are just straight up cancer. The closest thing to a "troll" I see in normals semi-consistantly are people playing things that are maybe slightly anti-meta, but nothing outrageous. People in ranked, just go in there to ruin people's day. I'm usually dead silent in chat 24/7 in all of my games, but after the last couple of ranked games, it's taken everything in my power to just keep my hands on the qwer keys and not flame at these people. I didn't think the problem was as bad as people said, but.. Holy crap.
actually works, taric was designed to be a top jg or support similar to tahm kench, the person is just bad.