Boards›Player Behavior

Ranked game as beginner

xciarah·4/3/2016, 10:43:38 PM·4 votes·1,413 views

First my English is very bad, but I would still like to talk about 'as a beginner in ranked games'. The last few weeks I've focused for gaming as Orianna, I have watched a lot of movies about how to play her, and I have practiced her a lot in Normal games. Tonight, I thought; let's just try a ranked game! Because the regular games started to bored me. But like most ranked games I've played, it wasn't fun at all, because by an annoying teammate. I have now played three ranked games because I find it challenging and just want to try it, but in all three games there are people that keep complaining about how bad I am, I understand that it's annoying when you lose thereby but I'm not so bad and I'm still learning from my mistakes. Because of this, playing is not fun anymore and just think it's disrespectful, everyone began once everyone is bad at the beginning. But for them all to go and insult the courage to continue to take away is even more annoying than losing. I wonder if there are more people who think like this, because I am quite done with that peoples.

I hope you can read this, i've done my best to explain myself in english :D !

25 Comments

single eboy4/3/2016, 10:55:00 PM4 votes

Do not play ranked before you know what you're doing 100%.

Astôlfo4/3/2016, 11:08:02 PM2 votes

Incoming downvotes from people who take Ranked too seriously.

Anyways, to you, @OP, if you really want to play Ranked, I'd recommend getting to at least Level 4 Mastery, if not 5, on the champion first. Sure, it might seem a bit excessive, but you'll almost definitely know a lot of different tricks and possible combos or such you can do with the champion by that point. While I don't necessarily agree with some of the rampant behaviors in Ranked, the fact is that it does exist and probably won't be disappearing anytime soon. So my best recommendation is to either avoid Ranked, practice the champion you want to play further, or simply just mute people if they start to become abusive and just enjoy the game.

EL HAMSTERO4/4/2016, 1:18:02 AM1 votes

they start new accounts at around silver 5 mmr, which is likely above your true elo.

you will have to lose for a while until your mmr drops to where it belongs. then the ranked are not any more difficult than normals.

Gimpy894/4/2016, 10:43:07 PM1 votes

I would recommend only playing champions with lvl5 mastery in ranked this is usually how long it takes to know the basics of a champion. Once you have learned the champion there is still learning the game. You should also know the matchups for that champion and should have backup champions so you dont have to pick into a counter.

1)know how to ward 2)be able to keep track of the JG even without vision (try to think like them and predict their decisions and also look at how lane opponents behave as they often react to the gank before you can see the JG come) 3)know how to roam/rotate 4)know what objectives to go for and when 5)know how to communicate to keep people from throwing or being dumb (this requires you to have good map awareness and know what everyone is doing) 6)dont overstay

xReadyPlayerOnex4/5/2016, 12:17:19 AM1 votes

Honestly I think there should be a minimum Mastery or Games played needed for Ranked. Most players go into it WAY to soon and just expect their team mates to carry them.

And I mean 200+ mastery or 500+ games.

Until you hit that kind of number you're essentially useless to your team. Think you did good on Oriana? You probably weren't even comboing correctly. Thought you hit that ult right? I bet it wasn't even close. The cold hard reality is there's 130 champions, tens of thousands of combinations of those champions in a particular game and knowing a good 30% of them is about essential to doing anything more than auto attacking and getting lucky. Add in your ability to out cs your opponents, push objectives, counter jungle, ward, team fight effectively, and the slew of other things that are basic level MUST HAVE knowledge to ranked and you're probably about as fun to play with in ranked as a beginner bot. Remember when Normals were hard and bots were easy? Remember that Normal game that someone was goofing around as a plat in your bronze mmr and beat you SO BAD you didn't even know what happened? That's the problem dude.

And the utterly sad thing... is that I'm stuck playing with you and people will downvote what I've said here and pretend that I'm wrong and make it so that you will be an absolute burden on your team for the next 50-100 games minimum.

Sorry, but TL:DR is that RIOT allows you to enter ranked WAY too early and gives it to you as a RIGHT. The cold reality is you're in over your head and it's not.

Troll Armada4/3/2016, 11:43:00 PM1 votes

First of all, I agree with you and it's really sad. Only rarely will anyone have actual advice or information on what you are doing wrong.

[SERIOIUS] My advice to you is to STOP playing ranked. I know you don't want to hear this, and you will hear many delusional people here saying go ahead play and the more you play the more accurately you will be placed with people of your own skill.

However, this is not true, and when you play ranked too often as a beginner who isn't ready you will end up screwing yourself in the long run.

I tanked one such account and basically had to start another one, I was placed in an elo I didn't belong. I played ranked TOO MUCH and before I was ready. I mean when I stared I had no rune pages!!!! Then when I was ready, you will get stuck in a place on the ranked system you don't belong and can't get out of without a huge effort on your part and a lot of luck/

If you don't want to stop playing ranked completely then you should at least cut back.

OH MAN NOT GOOD4/3/2016, 10:45:38 PM1 votes

[deleted]