2014-01-17, 05:09 AM
Words Wrote:Started playing ranked last night. Games were ok-ish and I thought I'd continue this morning, which apparently was a bad idea. Queues take forever so early, and it was like 10 or 11 am already... Regardless, I see no major difference in both ranked and nonranked games and it'll be fun (bit disappointing too) to see my "skill" in numbers.Yeah there is very little difference between ranked and non-ranked games unless you're at a very specific range(around 3-4k rating) where everyone is super try-hard, above 4k people go back to just doing whatever(see: Pro player's when they play).
The one thing that has bothered me lately, not even related to ranked games, is playing supports. I'm trying to get wards, sentries and dust as soon as they're off cooldown to give my team vision but if my team isn't getting towers and I spend all my time baby sitting and zoning out, without getting kills, I just end with boots and 2 or 3 branches forever until something big happens. Sometimes I feel like I can't even finish some bracers
What do I do in those cases? Asking others to buy wards for me doesn't work, asking for gank isn't always a possibility and I don't know if not buying wards so that I get something to boost my survivability is a good thing to do. Either option feels bad, if I'm an easy kill it's bad while if there's no vision it's also bad
If you lack gold for wards and you feel the wards are important and there isn't a gank opportunity, just go pull creeps or kill stuff in jungle. People are too stuck in the SUPPORT ONLY BROWN BOOTS mindset, nothing wrong with supports grabbing some farm.