Is ranked more or less toxic than normals (in your opinion/experience)?

Chalze·12/12/2019, 5:44:55 PM·1 votes·4,751 views

Tad bit of context: Although I don't see myself as an overly competitive player, I still much more prefer draft pick over blind pick, and in the Oceanic server, normal draft is disabled for quite a bit of the day, and due to my work schedule, I'm unable to play much of it while I'm awake, which is why I'm more or less considering on just playing ranked.

I'm a player who believes in everyone having bad games every now and then and feeding (unintentionally) is absolutely acceptable to me; what I'm more concerned about is toxicity since from my experience, toxicity has caused more losses than players having a bad game who keeps trying.

What do you guys think?

(Note that I'm in low elo, and for those who say "doesn't matter, low elo is easy anyway, just solo carry", I'm in low elo myself for a reason. If I could do that I wouldn't be in low elo)

10 Comments

Sir Saltarin12/12/2019, 5:46:48 PM3 votes

For my experience these last years normals are more toxic than rankeds.

However you'll find toxic ppl on both sadly.

gasv2qs12/12/2019, 7:39:42 PM2 votes

It depends on what kind of toxicity you are talking about and how do you define it. I have to agree with other comments that normal is more toxic than ranked.

In normal, I have seen people saying things about my mom for the entire whole game (I don't want to repeat the exact words but you guys know) because I said: "our adc never followed up in the team fight". Everybody else in the team noticed the same problem and that's exactly why we were losing. That player's response was toxic because it was not even relevant to this game and the purpose was to make others feel bad.

In ranked, I have seen people insulting each other and trash talk like uninstall. Most of the time (not all), there is a point in it. Like yeah the jg could've ganked more, or chose a better time to engage. Because it's ranked, there is pressure to win and some people care more about winning, and that's why they got frustrated so easily. And I admit there are better ways to say the exact same thing, it's just the higher pressure in ranked makes it worse.

I've played with friends from real life for ranked. They are nice people, but when it comes to ranked, yeah, they insult other people in the game, despite the fact that my performance in that game was even worse. Why? Clearly it's because my friends don't know those strangers and it's easy to take out the frustration on them.

The takeaway: after playing league for 4 years, I just don't care what other players say anymore. Sometimes online games with high competition just bring out the worst of us. And I know I'm just here to have some fun while try not to ruin the game for others.

Yin Yang Taoist12/12/2019, 11:51:22 PM1 votes

Ranked is more toxic.

Grokmir12/12/2019, 11:59:40 PM1 votes

I dunno about more toxic but plat-low diamond elo was a complete shit fest when I played ranked. More so than norms for sure.

excelsheet112/13/2019, 12:02:42 AM1 votes

I honestly never encountered this toxicity people are always talking about. Some people have really interesting ways of enjoying the game, never really met someone who was being "toxic". League actually has one of the best , if not the best community on the internet.

FioraWillCarry12/13/2019, 2:20:29 AM1 votes

Ranked is 1000x more toxic than norms.

AromaticSesame12/13/2019, 8:03:51 AM1 votes

Recently climbed to plat 4. Have seen inting in both ranked and norms, toxic people the same. However, I am surprised at this middle elo, norms are often filled with players who are either:

elo boosted and were totally bad and lost lanes completely to real plat/diamond opponents
casual players who don't care about ranks and play quite casually, of course
playing with three other friends

Skill level? Mostly less competitive than players in ranked games. Toxicity? Absolutely equal if not even worse--they give up more easily and like to flame teammates for having a bad game, and such negative behavior is often used to persuade a faster forfeit.

ALSO have been bullied by premade team of 4 during pre-game selection phase. When some players are playing with friends, they watch less for their manner.

Yet, for norms you can totally go casual -- you don't get as tilted as losing a ranked game, even there could be players flaming around.

NF Remilia12/13/2019, 3:11:22 PM1 votes

Normal is super toxic. Ranked is toxic in low elo , the most toxic people are in silver followed by plat 1 and diamond 4 people.

Meowing Mango12/13/2019, 4:50:24 PM1 votes

Meh, both are toxic. Saying one is better or worse doesn't do anything. There are people who flame hard in norms. There are people who flame hard in ranked. The difference is you lose LP in ranked for a loss.

Nightsky Pirate12/12/2019, 6:25:13 PM1 votes

Normals, more toxic, quite a bit more. But the worst I've seen was in ranked.