PSA to everyone who plays ranked

Tormyth·9/27/2015, 10:21:45 PM·39 votes·2,386 views

Please don't play ranked when drunk, buzzed, high, or not having slept well, they all impact your performance, reaction time and ability to pay attention more than some people realize. also lack of sleep can make you more irritable and prone to raging.

41 Comments

ModAttysu The Poro9/27/2015, 11:00:50 PM7 votes

The only time I've played LoL Ranked and had to leave is the one time where my dog ran away from our house and we had to find him. It took around 30 minutes of screaming his name. I came back and the game was almost over, and I was yelled at and reported.

When video-games are more important than your dog's life. :D

Starfish H9/28/2015, 5:34:22 AM5 votes

See I found a loop hole. You said

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Please don't play ranked when drunk, buzzed, high, OR not having slept well

So if I do it all at once it'll be Kay. Time to play ranked while Drunk, high, and having not slept on 30 hours.

Laustin Space9/28/2015, 8:58:56 AM3 votes

Personally I preform a lot better stoned all around. Granted I have a high tolerance it just helps take the edge off and prevents me from going on tilt. Regardless I quit entirely anyway for other reasons besides LoL and I definitely noticed a drop in my performance. Now I'm just slightly disgusted when I hear the excuse "I'm high" for poor performance or feeding and consider it a lousy excuse.

Tormyth9/27/2015, 10:59:21 PM3 votes

yeah, this goes for not having eaten needing to use the bathroom etc or the seemingly common i have work in 20 minutes

Ternt9/27/2015, 10:23:42 PM2 votes

This is on a whole spectrum of things that I would consider good advice. Things that also fall into this category would be, "First time X" should never happen.

Carry9/28/2015, 2:22:04 PM2 votes

I like smoking weed and playing League of Legends.

KingKong23509/28/2015, 9:49:42 PM2 votes

These are so dumb. Its like saying don't get high and go play a pick up game of basketball. Get off my nuts and stop caring so much

PlayingDrunk9/28/2015, 11:24:02 PM2 votes

well screw you too

Branimal9/27/2015, 10:54:45 PM1 votes

I had a drunk player go vayne top. Fed hard as shit, we somehow stayed in it and ended up acing. Got the enemies nexus to like 1/4 health and then this vayne had the nerve to stop attacking nexus and focused on the newly spawned enemy. Needless to say I lost a ranked because this idiot switched focus from nexus to a champion for no logical reason. Please don't play lol if you are drunk, the games about decisions and you make shitty ones when you are shit faced.

Loken Stoneheart9/28/2015, 10:39:30 AM1 votes

I get why people play when they're tired, some of us just can't squeeze in any games at reasonable hours.

But all the others? You CHOSE to get drunk or whatever and then play League. You coulda just not gotten drunk and still played League, or vice versa. And people who are like "I play better stoned" get me too. No. No you don't. It doesn't work that way. You just think you do for stupid reasons.

43161549_DEL9/28/2015, 1:42:11 PM1 votes

I actually play better when I am tired as I can process the game better without the wanting to correct.....warding mishaps....and....missed cs...and god I hate getting stuck as a support

Maximum Morde9/28/2015, 2:03:49 PM1 votes

I play ranked whenever I get bored trolling the prisoner island ranked restricted folks in normal draft. It's fun to make people tilt hard on ranked.

ThatToxicTroll9/28/2015, 9:32:47 PM1 votes

op dont tell me what to do, just try that 'friendly advice' sht on me in ranked i will lock disco nunu so fast you will think its thanksgiving when the feeding starts.

AntiFlash9/28/2015, 3:11:18 PM1 votes

Use logic to keep drunk people out of ranked lmao. I'm assuming you've never been high either so have no idea how it effects gameplay.

Aboylova929/28/2015, 3:31:58 PM1 votes

I'd like to add to please not play if you're not in the right state of mind/if you don't have an hour of free time. I say that after going on a six game loss streak. Not because I played particularly bad, generally I did the best or top 2, but because of a feeder in one, 2 others from individuals who were high/drunk, and one from someone who would go AFK, come back for a bit, and AFK again. Not sure if he was trolling or just things came up in his life. I ended up finally winning a game again in part because the enemy team had an AFK lol. Seriously as at LEAST common courtesy don't play if you're mentally impaired/don't have the time or ability to devote yourself to a full game.

BeatRushVII9/28/2015, 3:33:05 PM1 votes

If i only played league while well rested i might get one game a month tbh, lol.

magic pole9/28/2015, 3:41:51 PM1 votes

please don't tell me how to live my life.

you're like that guy who says , "you should have built this first",

or, "why are you split pushing?" "you should be helping with dragon"..etc. etc.

bulldoggamer9/28/2015, 6:27:48 PM1 votes

Or horney. It slows your reaction time and impairs your decision making. Just thought i would throw that in.

Ariel the Cruel9/28/2015, 4:10:38 AM1 votes

I only play ranked when I'm completely sloshed.

Fortunately, I don't drink.

JedenVojak9/28/2015, 5:00:34 AM1 votes

I can quit any time I want I just don't want to right now.

TurquoiseYoshi9/27/2015, 11:29:37 PM1 votes

DUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude you wannnnna pley som rannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnkedddddd?

^What I think goes on in these people's heads.