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.
Pirahna3 votesthat explains why my before work games are so much better than my after work games. good advice. :3
BluePolarizer2 votescan confirm more weekday morning wins or close losses, more 1 sided stomps in afternoon.
DreadPirateChris1 votesSo, 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.)
BluePolarizer1 voteskids don't mechanically suck but don't have good strategy/positioning and tilt like mad. it becomes a 1 sided stomp since they play the same when behind or ahead: super aggressively. get fed or feed trying.
the pros are the ones who have a coach telling them what to do. solo queue kids don't have that.
i'm not even bronze/silver but the exact same thing goes in gold/plat. the raging tilt kids make games into 1 sided stomps.
Project Riven1 votesSo, 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.)
If you're not a morning person and can't play while kids are at school, then you'll have a much harder time on getting out.
Whenever school's out, I don't play rank anymore. I used to, but now I just play normal or a smurf account. I still get the same joy out of it.
2/5, 3,/5, 4/5, 5/5... it doesn't matter. It takes 1 kid to lose your game.
For some odd reason, it's always your team that has that 1 kid that messes everything up while the other team, probably has 2+, still wins the game.
FedAsFuk1 votesStatistically speaking this is a load of crap. YOU have no way of knowing how many of your games you win because of "kids", or how many times a "kid" carries you. This is based entirely off luck, luck exists in small bundles, sure you can do really well for a week, then you can lose several in a row for the same reason the enemy team lost while you were on a roll. This doesn't change you as a player, just that the law of averages is balancing out
Buttigieg 20201 votesSome people can't play at 2:00 am.......
BeatzBoyFTW1 votesThen they are not true League players. Just a bunch of 5 year olds who have pretty much passed their bedttime :p
MLDzXnRRR1 votesGold/platinum is worse than silver/bronze - literally the worst players I've ever saw (slowly drowning back to silver)
BluePolarizer2 votesnever played in bronze but when i spectate mid/high silver games they're not even close to gold/plat. these guys make the worst decisions I've ever seen. lets not kid ourselves here, there's a reason season rewards exist for gold/plat and not bronze/silver.
BADxW0LF1 votesI 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.
The Chin1 votesYes 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.