Can we have a "training" or "serious" normal game mode?

Privileged Jew·3/31/2016, 4:59:42 AM·2 votes·599 views

I'm so tired of seeing Blitzcrank jungle, Heimer support, etc in my normal matches. I'm trying to prepare for ranked on certain champions and I have to constantly deal with teammates and opponents doing strange things that you would never see in ranked outside of trolling.

May we please have a separate mode that, when you queue as a specific role, it gives you a preset selection of champions to choose from? So that if I queued for support, I could only choose from the champions that actually support in the meta? I hate having to queue for a ranked match just to get a group of players who are serious enough to at least avoid troll picks/experimental builds.

Queue times be damned, I would be willing to wait a few extra minutes if it meant not having to deal with this crap.

10 Comments

blkh13/31/2016, 6:46:23 AM3 votes

Remember, off meta today is the new meta tomorrow. People play off meta all the time in ranked too, sometimes they don't mean to troll either.

Monkey With Guns3/31/2016, 5:05:25 AM2 votes

Unfortunately this would split the community. I see your point in wanting to practice a champ, but with over 120k mastery on Thresh and 110k on Blitz, putting the time in is all that you can do. If you're to stubborn for even that, find a buddy that's willing to practice, search for someone on here (you obviously know how to post things), or take them into a solo lane to practice farming and mechanics. Aye maybe one day knowing how to fight a certain midlaner as vayne could save your life or even win your series. Happy Climbing :)

I boop things3/31/2016, 5:09:28 AM2 votes

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Bravoh3/31/2016, 5:39:22 AM1 votes

All you have to do is find a club or a team with the same goals that you have stated above, and all of your problems will go away.

Drehirth3/31/2016, 6:53:10 AM1 votes

People still do off meta stuff even in ranked? If i'm trying something new or returning to the game after a break, queue for a normal, and get either really bad teammates/off meta stuff I just turn it into a "let's practice that worst case scenario for ranked"

like earlier where I'm trying to make sure i got my basic mechanics back before going back into ranked after a couple weeks break.

I got a support who just fed hardcore because they didn't realize the enemy botlane did gromp and was level 2, then they kept going in after that and basically handed them the lane. I didn't say anything to them, I just csed and waited patiently for mistakes, and watch the 4/1 ez turn into a 4/6 ez. I made sure to spam mastery emote and "?" every time and made them hard rage by the end of the game.

also silver will be an inconsistent hell hole, but if you just focus on you, and getting better you will just climb as you get better, so for the most part you only really need to practice 1 or 2 games with a new character in normals and better off just playing ranked if you're trying to improve