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Is Ranked Worth It?

JosephDM·1/24/2015, 5:02:06 PM·1 votes·1,022 views

I just started playing League about 4 weeks ago. I am level 22 and looking forward to ranked battles, however I am dealing with the infamous "Sh*T community". Most people on here are nice, but it only takes 1 to ruin it for the whole team. In 90% of my games, I get about twice as many kills than deaths. In 60% of my games, I end up LOSING because a team member is afk intentionally, is rude to people on the other team, or feeds (intentionally or unintentionally). By feeding, I mean not getting ANY kills and turret diving a champion while at 1/4 HP. It's like a orangutan is playing or something (no offense to Orangutans ). I have another problem that I guess I should mention. When my teams inner tower is destroyed 40% of the time, someone on my team does a surrender vote. We all say no of course, but he does this every time HE dies or one of our towers is taken down. It's not a big problem because we all vote no, but it's still very annoying. After reading all of the percentages, add 30% to the losing percentage. THIS happens around 6:00 pm-7:00 pm Eastern time in north America. I have a guess as to why it happens during these times. School is out in most of the country, so the number of young kids who just want to troll increase.

Thanks for putting up with my rant. Here is my main Question/Concern. How bad is it in the summer time when almost everyone is not in school? Also, how bad is ranked during the summer vs school year? Thanks again.

9 Comments

Thelmon1/24/2015, 5:06:20 PM1 votes

Ranked is worth it for the end of season rewards. Might as well finish your placements and if possible get to gold so you get all the rewards.

blck3on1/24/2015, 5:26:32 PM1 votes

You complain about AFK n feeders. If you really wanna have a even game play rank improve your skills n reach Gold+. In my experience people get more serious n tend to play more competitively in ranked games. You may face some problems in Bronze n Silver but as you reach higher ranks the no of feeders n AFKs is also significantly much low.

Also given your current level its not that uncommon for your teammates to suck. Even lvl 30 players can be absolutely bonkers when trying to make plays.

GL HF

asktiks1/24/2015, 5:36:59 PM1 votes

meh

tbh ive found its even more binary and people tend to rage and report more during the climb unless you like feeling good about yourself over rank and want the end o fseason rewards, I wouldn't recommend it but to each its own I stay away from it, I hate the enforced meta and its even more so enforced on ranked by the community

no I don't troll and do stupid picks like ap urgot or some bs like that , but I do like to experiment and in the very least id sometimes like to take my mid mages bottom or some weird jungle build with riven or shyvana , cant do that kind of stuff in ranked, you will get raged/reported/flamed , most likely Q dodged at champ select if you try anything off the meta

as for it being worse after school/summer? yes the amount of idiocy increases on account of more hormonal adolescents/cod rejects playing during those times, ive found 12-1 am pst to be the time where the serious people are playing and all the lil kids went to sleep at least in NA servers but also a good amount of diamond players transfer to LAN since they have better ping there if you can believe that shit

TheKingDodo1/24/2015, 7:04:40 PM1 votes

not worth it if you have hypertension. salt is real in ranked...

Wild Card Shaco1/24/2015, 8:40:03 PM1 votes

...Please don't play ranked as soon as you hit 30.

Beerstein1/24/2015, 9:05:20 PM1 votes

Normals matchmaking and player effort levels are so wildly random that if you want to learn with people at your own skill it's best to jump straight into ranked. Unranked used to be okay but it's gotten really bad. Play ranked for casual learning. I would say DO jump into ranked as soon as you hit 30. What's the worst that happens, you end up with people equal to you? Oh noes!

Poptart Evelynn1/24/2015, 9:10:32 PM1 votes

Hell nahh, I'm Diamond with over 15k games played total and still haven't felt I've gotten the end game goal of this game. Too much addiction, stay away.