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Why I won't play ranked anymore

Wyrmfyre·12/23/2015, 6:30:56 PM·10 votes·1,405 views

It seems, that in ranked games, getting off to a slow start, or in any way not being a top notch player, will bring full scale ridicule and blasting your way. Not from the other team, from your own. I admit, I am really not that great a player. I have a good game here and there, but am usually mediocre at best. The problem I have, is regardless of what role I am in, if I am not doing exactly what someone thinks I should be doing, and doing to a standard that would allow me to carry the team, then I will be cussed at, ridiculed, and told to do all kinds of unpleasant things to myself. In non-ranked games, this is not such an issue. Not once, though, has anyone offered suggestions on how I could improve. Simply bafflement at how I could possibly be so bad, and don't know what I am doing, and am just an all around terrible player. Maybe this is just my own personal experience, but the vast majority of ranked players have treated me like utter garbage if I wasn't as good as they wanted me to be, and their ridicule and insults only further frustrated me, which makes me play worse than when they began their insults. I simply do not understand this behavior. I now prepare for all the flames I am going to get on this post, because this is the internet, and why would expect anything else, I guess...

14 Comments

PIMPSMOOTH12/23/2015, 6:37:00 PM5 votes

I feel you. I opted to mute the enemy team as soon as the match starts, and any teammate at the first inkling of negativity.

Def helped.

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Lights And Magic12/23/2015, 6:38:31 PM4 votes

Don't worry about it. The people that do that are just upset they can't carry their games. The people that are cursing at you are making just as many mistakes as you are. Unless you were boosted (or they were), you belong in the elo you are currently in and so do they

SheikaRei12/23/2015, 6:42:16 PM4 votes

I feel your pain man. I have only played 4 ranked games since hitting level 30 nearly a year and a half ago. The bastards in the ranked scene think they are just so much better than everyone just cause they hit Bronze 4. "I didn't see you take that fucker on! What about that gank you promised? Instead of flaming at me, why don't you try and help?!" Ya know? I just want you to know, you're not the only one that has encountered this. Ranked is the most toxic place to be. and the way the report system is, if you report every toxic person you encounter there, your reports will end up meaning jack shit. It's bullshit.

Raka Flaka MD12/23/2015, 7:08:03 PM2 votes

This is why me and a few friends have moved onto ranked 3s. Still get season rewards and its just us 3 having fun and not worrying about toxic people.

VictoryDance9612/23/2015, 6:58:13 PM2 votes

Good For You! You don't need to take their sh*t. This game is about having fun, something so many solo-queuers have sadly forgotten.

GamblerOfLives12/23/2015, 9:34:44 PM2 votes

IDC what my team says:)..i try champs for the first time in ranked(like this is such a big deal),i play non meta champs(rengar adc) i play whatever i whant:)..and i win :)

I've started playing quinn top,jungle,adc..lost only 1 game bcs of an afk:)..but in the jungle i rule with him:)) have like 5 games with him

http://matchhistory.eune.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/EUN1/1309041556/204624139

http://matchhistory.eune.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/EUN1/1305467234/204624139

Easy man. really easy:)..

For example my last game..Ryze first pick, said that he will be camped and i should pick a jungler and camp his lane:}..i was like,wtf dude, i play how and what i whant, what's your problem..and i picked quinn jungle:)..demolished the enemy team:)

Wolfenstin12/24/2015, 12:29:45 AM1 votes

I don't play ranked for similar reasons. I've had my fair share of nasty people on normals, I can only imagine how much worse it'd be in ranked, where someone getting pissy with me and refusing to be a team player would matter even more.

lolptwo12/23/2015, 10:42:45 PM1 votes

My suggestion is actually listen to people's advice. If you know you're not a great player, and there's someone on your team who clearly knows what he's doing. Don't be so hard nosed and ignorant that you just blatantly ignore all their advice for pride's sake. You clearly need help in your position. You have a team. You team is trying to help you. LISTEN TO YOUR TEAM. The fact you are playing badly and losing means your original plan has failed. Start taking advice.

This is something that utterly baffles me about low elo players. They get so offended the second anyone gives them geniune advice, they also cannot accept that there is always players IN THEIR ELO that are better than them and will be moving up, and of course players who will be moving down, and SMURFS(THEY DO EXIST).

The best example I can give is a game where I was smurfing in low elo. I was 16-3 as Lucian and our team was Yi, Lucian, Thresh, Kindred, and Xin.

Xin started building FULL dmg, not a single tank item and just kept getting blown up. I was trying my best to carry and our kindred was actually also really good and smurfing and was 20-3 or something. Yi was full AD as well but there's not many viable tank Yi options.

After Xin going 7-19 and just feeding almost every second of the game. We ask him to build tank please. He jsut wasnt doing any dmg they were just blowing him up before he would even do anything. He refused. Kept building more AD items. Started getting sad about my team raging at him, Started getting mad because he was feeding. Completely ignored all advice. We lost the game. He ended up doing less damage that game than every other player in the game less than 9k DMG over a 40 min game. Even Thresh and Janna did more dmg than him. As FULL AD Xin.

I didn't abuse the guy but I don't blame my team for abusing him, he was ignorant, he was refusing to help or listen. He was toxic in his own way and making everyone on my team's game unpleasant.

Dukues12/23/2015, 9:14:46 PM1 votes

well your record speaks for itself.

The only way you get 30 with that amount of wins is through a f ton of bots or winning like 10% of your games. Then to play right away you are either someone who already has a level 30 account or just hit 30 for the first time. Since you are making this thread, I assume you just hit 30. So now you are 30, with hardly any normal wins playing ranked and getting placed a lot higher than you should be because Riot needs to lower new accounts starting mmr. So now you are out matched still probably learning the basics, basically giving your team no chance in hell to win. Granted its not ok for them to harass you, but I bet some of this "harassment" is just them trying to tell you how to play the basics...

I do suggest you stop playing ranked until you feel more comfortable with the game. If you start to feel more confident jump back in, but realize you cannot take offense to people and you are most likely over ranked and are probably going to lose a lot of games until your in your actual elo range.