I DON'T want to improve with this game, as far as ranked is concerned.

And no I'm not using reverse psychology here. There is absolutely no benefit, whatsoever of me improving at this game. In my mind, being a gold player is no different than a platinum, you aren't getting paid, you aren't getting really anything extra in rewards. I could go on about this but I really want to explain why.

I am sick of getting in ranked, having a terrible experience, and having the most effective tactics available (META) not fitting my playstyle, which excludes a lot of people from even playing ranked. I'm expected to play champions like Ahri where as if you aced the enemy team, you can end the game 35 seconds fast than if you played Varus or Veigar (champions I actually main). When you get a high enough elo, you are FORCED to just play ranked because that's what your EGO tells you to do, and if you want to play normals with some of your friends who are 3 or 4 divisions below you, you have to get on a smurf account. I know this, I play with Golds in ranked and Platinums in normals. And I'm not going to do that, I spent over 500$ worth of skins and I'm not gonna let them go to waste by playing this game for only 3 hours a day. I see most people in gold/platinum create smurfs so it doesn't screw up their normal game's MMR. They do this because they don't want to ruin their friends' experience by having 2-4 golds on the same team absolutely wrecking your team. Yes, I know the MMR is not the same in ranked and normals, but if you take that mindset of ranked and bring it to normals, your MMR will eventually match.

This brings me to another good point, if I want to try hard in a ranked game, I can do that for about a couple games, but since I play this game for fun, mainly normals, then this DOESN'T work out. I have so many off days in League that whenever I play ranked I have no clue how I'll preform. If I'm not consistent with ranked games every day, my skill deteriorates and I'm back to the place where I stopped climbing because I'm just playing this game for fun. I know I will NEVER reach Diamond because I know most knowledge about certain situations than most people at my elo, MY ISSUE IS, DOING THEM IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SCENARIO THAN BEING ABLE TO, according to the champions I play. Would I risk being the only person up after we aced the enemy team playing Varus and having the wave all the way down to the river and not being able to get to inhibitor with a 375 movement speed and having the entire enemy team delete their only carry while everyone else backs and defends while the enemy team does Baron? No of course not, that would be so much faster if I was playing Jinx where you GET movement speed from kills and turrets. But I don't play Jinx, not because I don't like her kit, but I hate playing as her, she's annoying, lol.

I don't know if you people get where I'm coming from or not, but I feel like I just had to put this out there because I think a lot of other people are feeling the same way as well they just can't explain it in this depth in a couple sentences. Hell, I'm terrible at explaining things unless I'm in the mood to type it, which in this case I AM!