What should I know going into Ranked?

Grindy408·3/5/2016, 2:20:40 AM·2 votes·385 views

I've never played ranked before (except on accident once or twice when Riot swapped the order of normal and ranked match types), but I've recently thinking about giving it a shot. Knowing how toxic people can be, and how completely un-helpful many people are, I just wanted to make sure I'm as prepared as possible before getting started. What are some things I should be aware of as I head into ranked game-play? In case it's relevant, I main support and play lots of mid and top lane, better hardly ever ADC, and nearly never jungle.

6 Comments

Poop Jelly3/5/2016, 2:22:48 AM2 votes

Be assertive. Don't be silent the whole game and try to control urself to not being bossy or aggressive. Go for an open opportunity and make a good connection with your team to make the atmosphere friendly and comfortably.

Saying small things like "gj" every each kill really adds up. Pay attention to small details will reward you big time.

COMMUNICATION IS KEY =]

Mysticman893/5/2016, 2:40:36 AM2 votes

Mentally prepare yourself to get destroyed in your games early on. The gap between the difficulty in normals (where people are generally on relatively unfamiliar champs and/or somewhat screwing around with weird builds) and ranked (where people are mostly on their best champs and usually trying their best) can be pretty jarring at first, but try to stick with it. It's easy to go "woah I'm not ready for this", but really the thing that makes you good at ranked is playing ranked.

It's possible that you've had enough normal games that you can hold your own at a silver-ish level out of the gate, but it's extremely common for first time ranked people to end up in bronze at first. The key thing is to not despair about this and not to blame your teammates (who'll inevitable seem awful) and have confidence that you will eventually rise up if you keep playing your best and learning from your mistakes, and that sort of attitude will carry you far.

For more concrete advice, make sure you've got a full rune page of appropriate runes for each of the champs you intend to play in ranked, and try to have at least 2 champs per role (ideally more) that you're confident in so you don't get stuck with your main banned/picked and no alternatives.

Since you barely adc/jg, I'd avoid putting fill as one of your roles. Since you main support, you'll probably get that 90% of the time when you queue for ranked, particularly if you put it as primary, and you can put mid/top as secondary.

Envy Sin3/5/2016, 2:41:49 AM2 votes

3-4 champions in 2 roles you know* really, really, really, really, really (do you get it yet?) really well.

GenghisEmo3/5/2016, 3:12:33 AM2 votes

Play 3 champs well in 3 of the roles. And maybe 1 or 2 on the rest.

Supp cant carry this meta this meta. Caters too much to OP champs and OP items that can 1v3 or 1v5.

Udyr, Yi, Jax, Xin, Lucian. Also other great choices Malphite, Rammus, Cho Gath, Miss Fortune, Ahri, Brand, Morgana.

Note, most are "mash right click, occasionally hit ability (and hope it works)". Or deal loads of dmg. Or great play makers.

Surr20plz3/5/2016, 4:28:32 AM1 votes

Memorize these short Acronyms!

FU

SMD

KYS