a letter to all the "for fun" players in ranked

scazzman··2 votes·778 views

im not trying to sound rude. but if you are playing casually and play off meta picks just because you can.. and your goal isnt to reach challenger. you should be playing normals. by not playing the game seriously. you punish the players who lose games not because they are unskilled. but are unable to carry you if your teemo ADC isnt working. you open yourself up to flaming. which makes the game unfun for you. the flamer. and everyone on the team because now they not only have an unskilled/uncompetitive player, but now they have a flamer spending more time typing than playing.

also. people will see you as a troll. and report you. and even though false reports won't count. eventually you get a real report. and all the false ones end up triggering a review and you get banned/chat restricted

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Kitty Cat Tosha5 votes

Wait - only people who are aiming for challenjour are allowed to play ranked now? And I am not allowed to play Vel'Koz support because it is not "in the meta"?

Oh dear, I did not even know I was not allowed to play ranked. I will proceed to uninstall, good sir, to make the way clear for your godly ascent to higher tiers. I am looking forward to seeing you in LCS soon.

elduris4 votes

Just wanted to say, I LOVE Vel'Koz support. I've played a lot of games with him and he's so much fun! People really underestimate how much damage he does since the update.

Kitty Cat Tosha1 votes

Before the update he did tons of damage as well, but people never realised it ;) Vel'Koz has been my tentacly baby since his release <3

ShinkoMinori1 votes

Vel'koz is a support... thats the meta I have no clue what Tosha is talking about.

ShinkoMinori2 votes

Vel'koz support is meta

scazzman1 votes

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Wait - only people who are aiming for challenjour are allowed to play ranked now? And I am not allowed to play Vel'Koz support because it is not "in the meta"?

Oh dear, I did not even know I was not allowed to play ranked. I will proceed to uninstall, good sir, to make the way clear for your godly ascent to higher tiers. I am looking forward to seeing you in LCS soon.

What i meant by " if your goal isnt to reach challenger you shouldn't play ranked " was . Don't play ranked if your goal isnt to climb. what i meant by " for fun" players are the people who play not trying to win. But aren't deliberately trolling or trying to lose . This post was more geared towards the casual players who play just to play not necessarily to win or climb

elduris4 votes

Just because a person's goals don't align with yours, doesn't mean they have less of a right to play than you do. Having fun and being serious aren't mutually exclusive, either. I'm sure you have fun playing ranked, or else you wouldn't do it, right?

How about you focus more on how you're doing and work on improving your own play rather than worrying about what other people play for? If they get reported and punished for their behavior, that's their problem, not yours.

scazzman2 votes

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Just because a person's goals don't align with yours, doesn't mean they have less of a right to play than you do. Having fun and being serious aren't mutually exclusive, either. I'm sure you have fun playing ranked, or else you wouldn't do it, right?

How about you focus more on how you're doing and work on improving your own play rather than worrying about what other people play for? If they get reported and punished for their behavior, that's their problem, not yours.

That isnt what i was getting at. I was referring more to the casual players who play ranked for shorter queue times or to farm hextech rewards and don't care whether they are challenger or bronze. and dont care that other people are legitimatly trying to compete and as for playing off meta. Im suggesting they do it in normals unless they know what theyre doing. Off meta picks can be good. But more often than not its either a troll trying to get a response or someone who didnt get thier lane and decided to play MF mid instead of ADC

Cyst1 votes

"IT IS JUST RANKED...", says ARAM Player

GET OVER IT

[slayer-pantheon-popcorn]

scazzman2 votes

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"IT IS JUST RANKED...", says ARAM Player

GET OVER IT

[slayer-pantheon-popcorn]

your summoner name is perfect for your personality. looking at your recent posts. you're a troll who likes to post inflamatory comments just for teh lelz

Cyst2 votes

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your summoner name is perfect for your personality. looking at your recent posts. you're a troll who likes to post inflamatory comments just for teh lelz

Your tears cause you got banned suit you bro.

[slayer-jinx-wink]

scazzman1 votes

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Your tears cause you got banned suit you bro.

[slayer-jinx-wink]

im not banned. try again bro. worst ive gotten is a chat restriction 4 months ago

Cyst1 votes

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im not banned. try again bro. worst ive gotten is a chat restriction 4 months ago

Chat restriction is temp ban of chat ability bro.

scazzman1 votes

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Chat restriction is temp ban of chat ability bro.

keyword 4 months ago

Cyst1 votes

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keyword 4 months ago

4 months isn't even enough to decrease your next ban penalty.

scazzman1 votes

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4 months isn't even enough to decrease your next ban penalty.

considering the reform period for punishments is 3 months. your argument is invalid

Cyst1 votes

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considering the reform period for punishments is 3 months. your argument is invalid

**According to ??? Your mamma? **

[slayer-pantheon-popcorn]

scazzman1 votes

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**According to ??? Your mamma? **

[slayer-pantheon-popcorn]

according to riot.

Cyst1 votes

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according to riot.

Source?

[zombie-nunu-bummed]

Cyst1 votes

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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=LoL+ban+decrease+after+3+months&amp;l=1

LOL Maybe five years ago when it was different riot crew in charge...

But considering large portion of riot crew were FIRED...

4th Chiming Lamb1 votes

You lost all credibility here.

Blåbæret1 votes

So you're saying troll picking isn't a problem in general or? If you want to try something new/play heavily out of meta you should be going normals tbh. Or else you're just putting your team at a disadvantage. But then again, that's probably what you're trying to accomplish when you pick Jinx jungle.

disregardable2 votes

Teemo ADC can be good with an aggro support. And false reports won't add up to anything.

Cenobite Azaziel2 votes

I was going to bash OP BUT he has a good point, he just used the wrong words... or to be precise, definition. Just as Lesvitesses said.

An off meta is a pick that isn't FOTM but is decent. Decent means a one trick pony can reach diamond or challenger. Yes. There are top lane teemo mains in diamond. I have no problems with off meta picks. What OP just described is a troll pick. A pick that, statistically, has NO REASON to be played because it will drag down your team.

"I'm going Sona as ADC! yayyy". The champion that has no AA enhancer .

Fiddlesticks - As an ADC too. Vayne - as a jungler.

It is like going into a gun fight and your teammate is using a BB gun. "Trust me it works!"

Is everyone free to play what they want? Sure. Just don't be a weight on some one you don't know and play a ranked match with four friends. There you can have all the fun a self expression you can have without collateral damage.

scazzman2 votes

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I was going to bash OP BUT he has a good point, he just used the wrong words... or to be precise, definition. Just as Lesvitesses said.

An off meta is a pick that isn't FOTM but is decent. Decent means a one trick pony can reach diamond or challenger. Yes. There are top lane teemo mains in diamond. I have no problems with off meta picks. What OP just described is a troll pick. A pick that, statistically, has NO REASON to be played because it will drag down your team.

"I'm going Sona as ADC! yayyy". The champion that has no AA enhancer .

Fiddlesticks - As an ADC too. Vayne - as a jungler.

It is like going into a gun fight and your teammate is using a BB gun. "Trust me it works!"

Is everyone free to play what they want? Sure. Just don't be a weight on some one you don't know and play a ranked match with four friends. There you can have all the fun a self expression you can have without collateral damage.

Vayne jungler with blood razor can actually work if you are good at it

Cenobite Azaziel1 votes

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Vayne jungler with blood razor can actually work if you are good at it

Let me get this straight, you are complaining about troll picks BUT vayne jungle can work? Lol dude.

scazzman1 votes

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Let me get this straight, you are complaining about troll picks BUT vayne jungle can work? Lol dude.

im less complaining about off meta /troll picks and more about uncompetitive players in ranked. i was using troll picking as an example behavior

Blåbæret1 votes

There's a difference between playing out of meta and troll picking. 90% of the time these people don't get their desired role and decides to troll pick. Has nothing to do with playing out of meta. Some things obviously don't work.

4th Chiming Lamb1 votes

I'm a "For Fun" guy and I play damn near solely normals. Ranked just isn't fun...everyone's such a toxic asshole in my ELO and I can't be arsed to climb out of it. I'd rather fight golds in normals than climb to gold in ranked. Same challenge, more fun.

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