as someone who never plays norms (practically), i want to know why you dont play ranked.
Is it a bad environment/not fun for you or something?
id like to hear from people who play this game regularly, rather than casual players that play once or twice every couple days.
AND PLEASE be honest, if you dont think youre skillful enough its not a bad thing
oSEXYPLATYPUSo10 votescuz i dont take the game super seriously and people tend to rage and flame more in ranked and i jsut dont care ... i try to have fun playing the game and if im not serious about trying to climb and to me i dont want to stress over the game and whether or not im silver or gold or whatever .... and to all those who make the rant filled post after post on the boards bitching about bout how bad teammates are and they shouldnt be allowed to be in rank . be perm banned for having bad games . why would any one want to put themselves in that situation to deal with that pissing contest
Spicy Rice1 votesAs someone who only plays norms when friends don't want to play ranked, I find norms to be too easy per say.
I don't mean that the players are bad, just that few take it seriously, it's very hard for me to have an enjoyable game (an even contest between both teams).
Granted, its hard to find that in ranked now a days, but i'm more likely to have games like that in ranked than in norms. That's why i subject myself to the cesspool that is ranked.
oSEXYPLATYPUSo1 votesand that is fine... but majority of rank is a pissing contest of a bunch of people trying to prove they are something that means nothing in all reality and for the most part lose the point of playing the game. which is to have fun... no one likes trolls, feeders, afkers, etc in any game mode... but majority of the post on the boards is a bunch of people pissed off at others cuz ITS RANK and RANK MEANS SOMETHING blah blah blah when in all reality it dont...
there is physiology behind why riot does things they do just like casinos. their end game/goal is to get you addicted and to play more and longer and by doing so they make more $ ... alot of people on the game isnt aware of things like this either cuz they jsut dont know or are to young to gamble or play/go to casinos
i am a huge poker player... play cards my entire life... and i go and play in tournaments at casinos, and cash tables and so on... and i feel im a fairly good player ... but i dont play all the other casino games.... those are the gimicks... poker is you vs the other person not vs the casino.
but here is something to ponder over rank : entertain the thought for a while if you may?
RtgFamilyYT1 votesomg they do. This is seriously my 1st day playing 3v3 ranked and people are INSANELY IGNORANT to me. RANKED vs REG playstyles are SO DIFFERENT
SarcasticShepard9 votesI'm as serious about ranked as Riot is about balance and accurate hitboxes.
Handy Sandy 5 votes
APC even though match history, and then flamed again because of my odd but useful build.If I had to guess where I was, I think maybe around high bronze/silver? Since I can confidently 1v1 some mid/low silver players I know.
+For some reason people get matched with plat players while they're silver/gold, or something like that. Also, if I have a negative KDA I'll get reported. It's not like I believe I'll get banned for doing something like that, but it's just a negative experience overall. Because for some reason, in ranked, negative KDA = Intentional feeding.
Ben Sharpio1 votesWhats wrong with number 4? I've been as low as bronze 3, it wasn't as bad of an experience as people think.
BIackfox2 votes[{quoted}](name=l Sion Bot l,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=pbl0AoRA,comment-id=00000000,timestamp=2017-01-26T03:44:23.647+0000)
Whats wrong with number 4? I've been as low as bronze 3, it wasn't as bad of an experience as people think.
Lol yes it is just for the fact that it is embarrassing to be in wood and it's better to be somewhere that people know somewhat What they are doing. Ex: rush hexdrinker If you are ad mid going against ap so you don't get bursted.
MrHaZeYo4 votesWell, I got around 3k+ normal games. It's just more relaxing. I don't have to worry about losing cause who cares? I can play whatever I please without hearing someone flame me for Renenkton mid. Plus I have a lot of real life friends who are worse then me who I wouldn't play ranked with or just all out better friends that wouldn't either be able to play ranked with me or wouldn't want to. I play this more for the friends I have.
I was semi pro at CoD, I left my irl friends behind for my squad and although it was a fun 10 year ride, I'm older now, I cherish my friendships. It was also painstaking, wake up CoD, sleep. I'd eat somewhere in between or between matches. I don't feel that with League anymore. Although I do miss playing CoD at a high level.
I basically chug my way through ranked to get Gold for the Victorious skin, then just coast in norms for the rest of the year. Although admittedly if I solo in normal's I play agasn't Golds-Diamonds so its actually harder lol.
DoktorKaiser4 votesmy internet is bad, there is always a risk of random 1500 ping
I was pretty high ELO when ELO was a thing (not to mention community was much more friendly and open to criticism back then), I never liked the new system, especially the cancer that is promotion series where you get matched with the worst mentally challenged dumbfucks (please pardon my language) instead of actual players from higher divisions that you are aiming for
I get so mad for losing even a normal game because of bad teammates, that I am afraid I would get a heart attack from playing Ranked and quite possibly a chat->perma ban for arguing with said idiots
Ariel the Cruel3 votesI don't play ranked anything (not limited to LoL). I play for fun. And I screw around way too much to be accepted into a highly competitive environment. (I'm on the fence over whether I'm happy about my Soraka top gaining traction recently.)
I played a few tournaments back in S3. But a brief bout of gridlock with no record is a significantly different environment from never-ending ranked play. To hell with that crap.
ApexInTheCircle3 votesBecause my daily fucking life is already shitty and hate filled enough that I don't want to be yelled at or flamed by edgy 13-16 year olds who don't even pay taxes.
Spicy Rice1 votesim pretty sure most league players are between 17-25
Valor Bot3 votesRanked anxiety, mostly due to all the negative behavior I've encountered in Ranked games.
SGT Dingle Berry2 votesI found just as much toxicity in normals as I do in ranked, more so since people will afk/feed faster. It took me a while to make the switch to ranked, mostly some weird anxiety, now I just don't care.
Rebonack2 votesI already know that I made it up into the top tenth percentile of the only map I cared about (Dominion). I might try Ranked Treeline if Riot doesn't delete it come February for the first anniversary of the murder of the Crystal Scar.
Dark Nephthys2 votesFor me I want to wait until I get more comfortable with other champions and roles because for what ever reason autofill exist. While I feel like I can play 
(Anivia) and 
into anyone mid lane I might not be comfortable with some match ups for the champions I play Top/ADC/Support, and I rarely jungle so I feel I should really get used tot hat role before going back in it.
I just never really wanted to for a while...I've been playing League since the beginning of Season 3 and have been in Silver 3/4/5 through the past 4-5 years. I usually just play my 10 games and then play maybe like 10 or so more games after it and be done with the season. I wanted this season to be when I actually try to climb and get to Gold which I feel I can get to if I actually tried to climb but I wanted to wait until the current meta changes a bit and hope that auto fill either gets removed or at least adjusted or something.
TyrekGoldenspear2 votesTwo fold.
I never feel like I'm quite good enough for ranked.
Ranked anxiety.
Spicy Rice1 votesThat goes away from experience.
Just like skydiving, gotta just jump out the plane
lightdragoon881 votesPing
Cloud2731 votesWell in normals you don't have to worry about your favorite champ being banned for one (assuming it's blind pick). Also normals is good for practicing new champs BEFORE you play them in ranked.
Hyperiön1 votesLemme guess, you are a dirty 
main. If so, no one wants you hear. If not, then sorry :p
Phoenix Kotori 1 votesI've shifted to mostly playing league with friends and our skill ranges aren't exactly the same, so I usually just play unranked with them we do try ranked together some each season, and I play ranked some solo just not much usually I just lack the motivation or willingness to grind to beyond gold because nothing really encourages its beyond badges and stuff. If ranked had a different rewards structure I'd probably feel more compelled to play it.
ZT Xperimentor1 votesJust not interested, I don't have anything to prove so why bother wasting time to show off, when I don't care?
Big Lincoln1 votesbecause im dog shit terrible fucking retard cancer and i should avoid ranked in season 7
Not That H0le1 votesBecause I just want the first win of the day.
Illâoi Evê Siôn1 votesI used to only pay ranked once a weak maybe, sometimes less. Mostly I would play normals. I've started playing more often now that we have Flex queue and I can play with friends. I treat 3v3s as if they were normals. But my mentality back then for playing ranked (which hasn't really changed for Solo Queue) is this:
When you play ranked you have to be attentive (≠ playing your best) or else it isn't fair to the four other players in your team. And when I say attentive I don't mean taking the game seriously. Taking the game seriously often translates into emotionally investing yourself into whether or not you win or lose and stressing over your team's performance, which causes you to rage and annoy your allies instead of actually paying attention to what is happening. Attentive just means think. Think ahead. Think about why you're doing things. You have to actually pay attention and not just go through the motions, because if you don't you're much more likely to make careless mistakes (Leichtsinnsfehler in German) which are punished really hard in League and decide whole matches. The more careless mistakes you make the more often you lose the more your MMR falls which is why you get placed in lower divisions and why you start earning less lp per win, even if you do climb during the season.
Some people only play ranked, and when they do they spam even through lose streaks and don't really pay attention. Then they complain when they don't climb as quickly and get placed in low divisions each new season.
Edit: and I don't always want to pay attention, so I play normals instead.
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id like to hear from people who play this game regularly, rather than casual players that play once or twice every couple days.
Not sure if I'm excluded since I decided to take a break from the game, but it doesn't matter since I'll comment anyway.
I play Normals only because I can get that same competitive environment without all the bullshit and cry fests. Also, I'm very insecure about my skills as a player, and well, Ranked is usually never a good place for my self confidence. At most I'll play Ranked just to try for the rewards(Gold 5 so I can get the skin) and stop.
That last one pretty much applies to all games I play actually. Currently grinding Ranked PvP in GW2 because #Lootz4Dayz.
ProtestantCaesar1 votesWhen I did play Ranked two Seasons ago, my internet cut out during Ranked games. (It was uncanny. It seemed to happen far more when I was playing Ranked than when I was playing Normals.) After a few Ranked games in which my internet cut out and I got very mad, I decided not to play Ranked anymore. I get too angry at it.
NekoniClaws1 votesHaving to fight hard for a rank and then water it like it's a houseplant, which'll then be used for the exclusive purpose of deriding my bronze ass?
Sign me up for some of that!
But also on the practical side of things, my family can be pretty disruptive even if I'm playing at stupid-AM, and that'd disrupt ranked games- big nono.
Wind2341 votesI hear way too many Ranked horror stories about how it's such a bad experience that I want nothing to do with it. I play this game for fun, not to get raged at by immature 5 year olds. Granted, Normals does have those as well, but I don't come across those quite so often.
Aside from that, I'm much more casual with gaming, so I tend to avoid the more competitive aspects of it in most games I play. I like to try new champs/roles a lot as well, and that won't fly in Ranked. The biggest reasons I don't play Ranked, though, is that I don't feel as though I'm very skilled at the game, so I'd probably spend more time losing than anything, and I don't like feeling pressured into doing well. If I do poorly and lose because of it, I don't need four other people hating on me because I didn't do well in a video game. For the super competitive, that's fine, but I'd rather just not deal with that.
Ungrateful Thug1 votesFor the longest time I just didn't want the stress associated with ranked. I didn't want to fret over losing/gaining LP. and ending my playing sessions on a sour note just because I ended with less LP than I started with or because I made barely any progress at all. I notice that when I play ranked I get tilted much more easily (in terms of just getting frustrated with myself; I don't flame teammates). Also, I liked being able to play with friends of varying skill levels.
I'm much more receptive to playing ranked now, but that was definitely my mentality when I avoided it.
JackyBoii1 votesI'm gonna be honest I play norms as I am fine with losing there. I am super toxic which will lead to my suicide if i play ranked so I try to avoid it. Norms just allows me to see my ability to deal with my lane and help others, try new things and develop my skills. In ranked there are people equally toxic as me and just ends up being who can type the fastest with comebacks meanwhile mid is open due to the whole team arguing (usually starting with 2 fighting, another 2 joining opposing sides and the 5th just telling everyone to STFU. So there you have why I dont play ranked :)
Embers Remain1 votesPeople play so incredibly poorly in normal games I don't even want to get started at playing ranked. Losing a normal game because some lane uberfed is annoying, but I wouldn't be able to deal with that in ranked games since there is 'something on the line' hence I would probably flame more/feel bad afterwards. I just dont understand sometimes how people can genuinely feed there asses off, if you know your lane opponent is ahead just try and farm safely or wait for a misstep from their side. People don't seem to get that when they are behind they simply shouldn't fight their lane opponent.
SMFC1 votesPlaying form s3, have more than 1k games normal, love it, playing ranked is just too toxic, when people lose normal games they don't rly care and don't rage so often, me myself - i don't care if I lose normal game but ranked - I have when im try-harding and playing my best champs in team with players who troll and pick random picks, in ranked that actually upsets me. So fcuk ranked,
Piepurr1 votesto be honest am starting to ask myself the same question , normal games or draft never gave me the satisfaction i need , for now am thinking to go all out and play ranked only and i will not care about my rank just so i can get familiar with how ranked really works btw last season i climbed to bronze 1 in solo q by playing supp Morgana i am proud i tried but i want to play some high damage champs so i can actually carry myself and my team so this year am trying to learn ADC ( the adc role is sooo f****** annoying because of the cs xd) but no role is easy right now am gonna focus on getting all adc's then try them all , then choose the ones that i like , then practice them , then am off to ranked boiyz XD . humm i didn't answer the question for now i can play ranked as supp since i don't have the confidence to go as ADC but i don't want to feel like being carried or waiting for a good team or some luck .
Sirsir1 votesWhy would I?
It just makes teammates more toxic, it doesn't really increase the quality of the games, and its more stressful.
Plus if you don't make it to at least gold everyone and their mother thinks your opinion doesn't matter.
SangreDeNoche1 votesGot Silver 1 and went to gold promos in a few games over and over but inters who wanted to gatekeep people out of gold (they said so themselves) or had an inter in THEIR promos and wanted to "feel better" by doing the same to others kept happening each and every time. That was during the season I played the most ranked. I've gone back now and then but it's basically the same. I get to promos in 2-3 games then riot fucks me sideways with matchmaking before the game even starts. I hit promos 16 times one season because it was SO easy to get to promos SURELY one of these times would be the one right? I even got a coach for one of them who told me to go to promos then invite him to a game so he could see. He didn't find anything glaringly wrong with what I was doing but was shocked despite climbing smurfs out of b5 all the time he couldn't figure out how I had such trash teammates in silver. In the 2nd game he even tried shotcalling and just like me realized how futile that was. Since then I've stopped playing depression simulator and stick to norms. I even stopped that for a while and just played aram + rotating game modes. I'm back on the rift only for nostalgia's sake really since watching higher elo players on youtube and twitch feels reminiscent of how I used to feel when I first started the game.
Der Lindwurm1 votesI just prefer for less to be at stake when I have 0 faith in matchmaking to create an even remotely fair match. It offends me a lot less when people play like garbage and AFK in normals.
ValyrianBlade1 votesThere's a few reasons for me:
First, i played A LOT of normals before starting ranked. My normal mmr is now in the top 4% of players, and it's been as high as the top 1%. I've regularly played against master /challenger players in normals, sometimes on their mains. I legitimately got good in league on my main roles in normals, and switching to ranked it was useless. With silvers feeding, my careful play focused on getting leads through farm didn't work at all. You needed to carry, or you'd lose. It wasn't until i switched roles in to mid lane that i was able to start winning more games.
That's only really a small part though, as I've gained enough experience in ranked now for that to be a non-issue. The bigger reason in the past now, was that i had to write exams for my career twice per year. These exams took about 4 months of studying each. If i came home from work and played a game or two before starting to study, i found that a bad game of ranked (either due to a feeder, a toxic teammate, or my mistakes) would result in me being stuck up on the game and not being able to study at all that evening. I could play normals without worrying about it, but ranked just got in my head. So i didn't play ranked for those 8 months per year, and since one of the exams is the first week of November, of the 4 months i could play ranked, 2 months were off season / pre season. With only 2 months per year to play ranked, there was no way i was climbing to anything meaningful, so i always just got gold and stopped (even though i was regularly playing with people in plat 3-5 so there's little doubt i could have climbed to at least high gold if not plat with some more games).
Of course now I'm done exams, so I'm mostly in ranked. I still go to normals to try to learn new champs - my pool is really small and most of my pool is rather weak right now too, which sucks.
RenownedWheat421 votesThe environment the few times I've played ranked has been completely cancerous, and I've very rarely managed to do enough to even finish my placement matches because of it. Norms aren't near as bad as people say, and while they've got their share of toxicity, it's honestly way more preferable to the trash I've had to deal with in literally every game of ranked I've played to date.
rtbf2274261631 votesBecause, i think i am too bad for my role and dont want to disappoint my team. so i play normals to learn. But i think i have to play rankeds soon too.
Ratpie1 votesIt is too much of a chore to grind and get up to where your playing level is. You have to wade through so much crap, and then you find out that even higher up you still see the same crap from people who are boosted and don't belong, that the effort doesn't even seem worth it. I can play vs gold and plats on my friends list or what i often get matched up with in norms due to whatever algorithm they use and have mostly fun games, or slug through some horrendous games. I have just seen too many games now where how well you play is completely irrelevant in ranked as compared to who just picks the cheese champ and curb stomps people who don't have a clue what they are doing. There is no macro play in these games, just button smashing with the biggest burst champs you can grab. Over and over, that poser that you held in check in your lane, outfarmed, and kept vision on, and yet your team feeds them up and they have 20 kills even though you wenr 5/0 in lane with 100 more cs.
I actually play more ARAM now, as that feels more balanced than SR does this season.
hellaveinion1 votesDude honostly, it's nice to quite ranked, to study a new champ in norms, saved my self a ton of loss!
but try hard norms are just as try hard!
ºFerrAhriº1 votes1.at the end of the day. you get home tired af after your shift. you drink a cup of whisky and leans back in your chair. your reaction speed is all the way down. you just can't be bother trying to read your opponent's intentions or getting worked up about missing cs. you don't care if you lose, you just want to relax and have some fun. why would you play ranked in that state? 2.Or maybe you are a filthy one trick like me and once in a while you'd like to try some off meta builds or try out some other champions you are not familiar with. first time champion on ranked is a ahole thing to do, so you go into normals. 3.you are playing with a friend who's not anywhere close to your division. riot doesn't allow you two duoing.
My answer is that fun is verry important. I like being the carry. Being the 16/4 who carries the game to victory. It happens in ranked yes... But in ranked everyone tryhards and tryhards. Counterpicks metapicks metabuilds teamwork defend and so on... It is more fun to play normal tho i play alot of ranked too. And as the guy below says people flame more in ranked . And flamers are the worst **** in this game. Feeders are not bad at all.
