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Why is Ranked so different from Normals?

2ManyJons·2/14/2016, 7:36:04 PM·1 votes·415 views

Ok, so I'll start off with the fact that I am currently Bronze IV.

Because of that I don't really like to play ranked, I'd rather play normals. I was playing ranked last night however and I noticed something that I haven't really picked up on since I started playing ranked games last year. When I play a normals game, it usually has the off meta builds and the unpopular champions and all the stuff ranked frowns upon. But the games are way more fun. I don't tend to get pub stomped in lane with no chance for a come back. But that's not even what bothers me.

Why is it I only see "bad internet", AFK's, Leavers, Feeders, and overall people who don't belong in their role playing ranked? If I played 5 normals games, I wont see any "sorry guys, my internet keeps cutting out" dc's, I wont have anyone afk at fountain the whole game, I wont have someone get mad and start feeding. This ONLY occurs for me in ranked.

Then the player lvl. Last year I played a few doubles with my plat 3 friend and got paired against plenty of golds and a few plats. They weren't better than me. They weren't farming better or making better pokes or builds. But they played champs they knew would work together in lane (Not amumu support with Wukong adc into Kalista). I didn't see junglers with NO presence in the game (Evelyn into Volibear. He camped my lane all game while she tried to farm to catch up). They grouped to take objectives and teamfight. Just like almost all of my normals games work.

It might just be me but it seems Ranked games bring out the most unskilled players in this game and then put them under pressure to perform better than they're capable. I can play 3 normals games with the knowledge that I did pretty good and maybe learned something. I can play 3 ranked games and wonder why my team didn't ban that champ that just snowballed out of control for a 18 minute win. Or if my adc has ever heard of last hitting, or if the jungler knows that Jungle Karthus doesn't really work. Or why my team wants to chase a fed Garen around the map trying to kill him while we lose turrets and objectives.

13 Comments

Allahu Barackbar2/14/2016, 7:42:06 PM1 votes

I'll be totally honest with you, bud; Ranked is Hell. Across all levels of play. From Bronze to Challenger, the same issues always exist. Feeding happens. People rage and become toxic. The blame game happens. People troll. An asshole who grinds his way from Bronze to Diamond will still be as much of an asshole even though he has a Diamond border.

This is primarily the reason why I hardly play Ranked either, unless it is with friends. The level of toxicity I seem to experience every game has driven me from it. Which is unfortunate, because I like to see myself improve. But the horrible environment the Ranked has is too much to deal with.

My recommendation for you is to either play with a majority of friends, or simply not do Ranked. The stress is not worth the reward, and playing Ranked is a quick way to see yourself become disenchanted with the game. Do yourself a favor and avoid Solo Queue. Hope you continue to have fun in normals though, friend!

Powderkegg2/14/2016, 7:48:50 PM1 votes

Because ranked is competitive, you have something to lose if you lose the game, lp, but in normal's it has no impact on you if you win or lose. Once winning starts to matter people get upset when they start losing. Normals also have a larger varitey of players you can play with; it's easy to win a normal game when your playing with golds and plats because they know what to do, most of the time, but in ranked you're playing with players with the same mmr as you.

disregardable2/14/2016, 7:56:15 PM1 votes

It's not different from normals at all. Same game, same types of people.

"Go play Normals" is just replaced with "Go play bots".

Iceember2/14/2016, 8:01:08 PM1 votes

A big thing. Especially in lower elos is that people try too much to play op champs or to counterpick their opponents instead of just playing champions they are comfortable with. You will see this a lot less in normals because people play things that they wanna play and are comfortable with what they are doing.

In the example you give of eve vs voli. If it was an eve main she would have made that work no matter what (so long as your toplane was tanky). Eve is a champ that doesn't farm jg very well and much like lee sin has a very scary early game and add that fact that she is invisible nearly 24/7 should be adding pressure to the opponents lanes every time they are out of position as eve could be there any moment.

This is the exact reason I pick mid and support as I am extremely comfortable with my midlaners and I know I can keep my adc alive as much as I can while playing support (they do have to put some effort towards that sometimes tho..)

Idk this new champ select seems 50/50. Half the time you'll get people in roles they are good with playing champs they know very well while the other half you get exactly what you described.

Woook3r2/14/2016, 9:46:45 PM1 votes

Why would you troll normals when you could troll ranked?