This advice is an experiment in progress.
Do not queue rank after weekdays after 2 PM EST/PST/CST. Never queue rank on a weekend. That only leaves weekday mornings, best time to climb.
Reason? Avoid queuing with the kids when they're not in school.
that explains why my before work games are so much better than my after work games. good advice. :3
can confirm more weekday morning wins or close losses, more 1 sided stomps in afternoon.
Gold/platinum is worse than silver/bronze - literally the worst players I've ever saw (slowly drowning back to silver)
I had the day off from work yesterday and my games were horrid. My teams did nothing but feed their lanes, junglers had no map awareness or good decision making processes.
Yes you may play with more school kids, but so is the other team! If you ACTUALLY want to climb don't let superstitions affect your play.
Some people can't play at 2:00 am.......
So, as very much not-a-morning-person that's kind of a non starter. I'm not going to be in shape to play ranked for at least a couple hours, and then I need to leave -lots- of leeway to actually play the game just in case it runs long. With a slow queue, queue dodges, champ select time, and a possibly hour long game, I need to leave a good hour and a half just in case. Getting up 4 hours before work to play a single ranked game per day? ... simply not practical.
Also, on general principle, this doesn't seem like a successful strategy - it's like many other ELO hell arguments. If you play in the evening, then 5/5 enemies have a chance of being a 'kid', while only 4/5 on your own team have a chance of being a 'kid'. (Assuming that being a 'kid' is bad, which hasn't really been shown, and considering that a number of players have had to delay their professional debut to meet the 17 year old age limit.... it doesn't actually even seem likely.)
