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Depressing Ranked Experience

DesertScorpiion·4/1/2019, 9:14:56 AM·2 votes·5,464 views

Basically I'm newer to League and especially ranked as of this season. I've been grinding hard for the last four months and in standard 5v5 play I think I play average (never totally feeding, can go positive and win my lane pretty consistently). I'm currently Bronze IV and up until the last few weeks I've been excited about this climb. I was Bronze III promos steadily climbing about 4 days ago and since then I've had AFK or inting players in my last 7-8 matches. I try and stay positive in game and out and I try to follow the two losses and quit for the day rule but that has just been day to day ruined games from toxic players. Is this just what ranked is in this community? I love watching pro play and I've played a few 5 mans with friends and enjoyed it, but the solo queue lobbies end up being terrible matches with players who don't take the game seriously. What is the appeal of playing this game competitively if you're not the Faker of your division with more carry potential than Atlas? I just don't get it and would like to see Riot do anything to crack down on poor sportsmanship in low and mid tier ELO. Sorry for the rant but I'd like to see who else feels this way, or if I'm being unreasonable. -Scorpiion

13 Comments

TinkerTantrums4/1/2019, 10:04:13 AM3 votes

Your team usually loses the match whenever you play Neeko (36% win rate over 11 games). It didn't used to be that way when you were playing Lux (55% win rate over 96 games).

If you want to climb out of Bronze then perhaps you could try practicing new champions in normals.

Silly Neeko4/1/2019, 10:02:59 AM2 votes

Honestly.... ranked itself is a fairly toxic place. It can be decent, but in general (especially in lower levels of ranked)... EVERYONE thinks they are faker and knows everything. This leads to them flaming and being complete and total jerks.

But it can be a decent experience if you listen to music and not pay attention to the chat. I always suggest playing with some music you enjoy going while playing. It helps keep stress down which helps you play better.

Personally i prefer normals rather than ranked.... which is why i have about 6x as many games or so in normals than i do ranked over my league career.

Plat HardstuckXD4/2/2019, 8:09:10 PM2 votes

Shit happens in Plat still. 2 games in a row I had Jayce players super feeding costing me a game and the other one play luckily won us the game. I don't know how they can fix inters or fakers at this point. There may never be a solution.

FioraWillCarry11/7/2019, 12:00:33 PM1 votes

To be honest, I don't know why you started this game now. I'd never recommend League of Legends to anyone. It was a good game in season 5 but in season 9, it's just shit. Basically every SoloQ game is a gamble on which team has more feeders. It wasn't this way when I started back in Season 5 but this is what it has devolved into. I'm actually gonna quit. Not like right away but every day I play, I feel less and less inclined to play. Pretty soon I don't think I will have the will to play another game and I'll just drop it.

I suggest you find another game to play. League of Legends is not what I will call a fun game. It will just frustrate you.