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Should I play only Ranked? Is Ranked getting worse?

SlandersPete·10/23/2018, 7:00:14 PM·4 votes·4,308 views

I am Silver IV trying to push into Gold. I feel before I play Ranked, I should warm up on Drafts. However, recently (last month or so) whenever I play drafts, I lose every time. My team always has a inting troll and the other lanes just int because they are bad, like they make Iron League look like Challenger. I just play one game of Drafts to warm up before I play 2-3 Ranked games. I never play Ranked because those players in Draft tilt me. I don't even use the chat and the amount of anger they put in me pushes my limit. I don't want to play Draft because of that, but if I go straight into Ranked, I fear that I will do bad and not only disappoint my team, but get pushed further from Gold. Also, is Ranked getting worse? When I was in Drafts, the players seemed good, now they are trash. Ranked had some OP players I had to really push myself to hard carry to win. Now I feel that players are just messing around in ranked. Things you saw in Drafts show up in Ranked like people using wrong runes, people just waking up, people inting, people who don't care, etc. Are they even aware that it is ranked? Am I hitting a wall where I can't get higher because my team is that bad in ranked? My win rates are around 60% and I get KDA like 5/4/20 but don't get ranked up. I want to escape these players with 7 IQ.

6 Comments

BasedNerd10/23/2018, 7:13:48 PM2 votes

I don't bother with Draft. People don't take the game seriously enough to practice. I play draft after a hiccup with my PC to make sure it runs properly when I play ranked, but that's it. Draft is a joke.

BugsLivesMatters10/24/2018, 1:00:26 AM2 votes

Just treat ranked like normals. No, that doesn't mean play like a monkey going for off-meta builds you're unfamiliar with. One of your biggest enemies in ranked is nerves, you don't wanna be so tightly wound that you end up performing poorly because of nerves.

Have fun, do your best, and mute the dickheads. I especially encourage the last point, mute anyone that causes you to lose focus, no matter how much you want to reply back.

I won one of my promos last night thinking it was just a normal draft match. Dear god was that a good surprise

HommeGoujon10/23/2018, 7:33:04 PM1 votes

Either it's become horrible or I've become terrible (I mean, even more) but I just got demoted 2 divisions in a row from S1 to S3... I feel like Gold won't be for me this season. I don't like Orianna anyway so W/E but still. It sucks lol

ForgetMeNotKeanu10/23/2018, 9:31:23 PM1 votes

Maybe try warming up in Flex. It’s more causal and matters less than solo duo but still is ranked and (hopefully) it means people are willing to put in some amount of effort to try to win.

Vreivai10/24/2018, 1:22:23 AM1 votes

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and the other lanes just int because they are bad,

{quoted} int

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

Kachykvar10/24/2018, 2:01:36 PM1 votes

Ranked is definitely getting worst. Riot's matchmaking is just not working anymore and hopefully next season will be better, but for now, its just a downward spiral into wood tier.