After playing a bunch of normal games
I realized why people are consinstently first timing a champion in ranked games, which is something i'm totally against.
Normal games are just an abomination unless you queue as a team of 5, and still there is a chance of getting a trash game.
4 out of 5 games, at least 1 person (ally or enemy) is going to afk or going to grief for whatever reason and makes it almost impossible to test limits/builds on the champion you are playing.
At this point it's just better to go in practice tool.