Something I experienced

Hello!

So I've played league for a long while, and I used to be really into playing ranked in season 3 and 4, but during season 5 I started to stray from competitive scene and started to just play casually, I was tired of the stress and anxiety of ranked and didn't feel like it was worth it, sure I could get a free rare skin and champion that uses it if I could get to gold, but its still just not worth it to me.

Just recently, as in last Monday, I was made to play some ranked games with a good friend of mine. I agreed because I just thought "hey, maybe with all the changes, it won't be as frustrating or stressful". I have never been more wrong in my life. I played 1 ranked game on Monday, and I was Jungling and what not, no big deal. The enemy team was flaming so hard against our mid laner (I've already forgotten, its almost 9 a.m. and I haven't slept), and it was just horrendous. They didn't stop, even into the post game chat they kept harassing and insulting. I didn't say anything back to them, I just reported and went on my way, thanking my friend but declining their next invite.

The next two ranked games were on Tuesday night. My friend had invited me again and I accepted, we had a premade team so we thought it would work better for all of us... Well, it didn't. The first of the two games were just as bad as the one on Monday, enemy team calling everyone bad, and from what I heard afterwards: they were even flaming themselves. After the game, we all decided to just play some normals and chill off and what not.. after a few normals, my friend had this crazy team comp idea that she was dying to try in ranked because of how well it worked in normals. It was maybe 3 in the morning now, and we were all tired but we said whatever lets do it. It didnt work, mind you, but the enemy team was talking trash the entire time.

When I was playing ranked back in 3-5, I would run into frequent bad games where 1 or 2 people would flame and make the game bad.. and it would happen maybe... oh I'd say every 2 games I guess (I remember because that's all I used to play). When I decided to play casually this season, I'd say maybe 1/3 games were bad enough to call toxic, if that. But out of 3 ranked games I played, all 3 were so toxic, I felt I needed a shower afterwards.

Safe to say: I probably wont be playing ranked anymore.

TL;DR: S6 ranked games are toxic, whats new.