Why Don't You Play Ranked Any More?

Trick1F·3/27/2015, 9:05:40 PM·2 votes·537 views

I haven't really wanted to play ranked this season so far. It has nothing to do with my individual skill or understanding of the game. My problem is that I don't feel like dealing with a lot of the people I encountered there last season.

Supports that don't ward (at ALL).

Junglers who never gank. Like....22 minutes first gank after the laning phase is over. Or junglers who don't time their buffs or position themselves for dragon fights but are off farming. Or gank pre-6 (yay!) but do so when you have no mana, or no hp. Then they die, rage at you and say they are going to report you/never come to your lane again.

Mid laners that don't ward river. Mid laners that don't call mia when their counterpart (ZED!) roams. Or sometimes worse, mid laners that DO ping lane is missing and don't do anything about it. Don't follow roam, don't shove wave into turret.

ADCs who think the entire game revolve around them getting everything fed to them or given to them or done for them. All the time.

Top laners who cannot, PHYSICALLY cannot leave their lane until the enemy nexus has been destroyed solely from the top lane. Top laners who think their lane should be the focus of the jungler as opposed to mid or bot with dragon control.

There are a few other things. Mostly people shambling around the map instead of looking at the minimap and rotating to objectives or pushing lanes, general lack of "hey, that was my bad sorry man" and a lot of "noob scrub lel ugy %%% rekt tryhard just a game" ......the list is endless.

I'm sure there will be a lot of "QQ" and "because you suck" but that's the point. I don't believe I do and in normal games or teambuilder I don't have to worry about my individual capabilities being reflected by poor team play. At least, for now. I do plan on finishing my provisionals, just can't seem to get the motivation with the state of play I see.

This is meant to be a conversation piece. I've been asked by several of my ingame friends why I haven't finished my provisionals yet Treat it as you will.

6 Comments

CrazedPorcupine3/27/2015, 9:10:39 PM2 votes

I reached Gold, therefore I have no reason to play ranked anymore since I'm guaranteed to get the soloque rewards.

ChoNuff3/29/2015, 3:42:45 AM2 votes

They should do teambuilder version of ranked. Team builder is the better game mode. Nothing to earn in teambuilder. So, here is the issue. How long people gonna play league if best mode does not allow earning of play level rewards? You thinking about that riot?

GundayMonday3/27/2015, 9:29:19 PM1 votes

You're honestly smart to wait on ranked. I have a HUGE range of skill levels in my games. Remember one game where I had someone with a silver, gold, plat, diamond (me), and challenger border on my team in the loading screen (all the colors of the solo queue rainbow). HUGE variation in understanding and skill, even when the mmr is supposed to be even.

Given more time, this will balance out and you should be able to play with similarly matched players instead of random like it is now.

Åron3/28/2015, 12:42:23 AM1 votes

I don't play ranked anymore because I never started. I've heard stories of my friends suffer in ranked, so I'm not gonna get sucked into the vortex of pain known as solo queue.

Lt Cuddles3/28/2015, 2:21:28 AM1 votes

Just won a ranked game with Rengar, had alot of fun~