#ranked shenanigans

[banishingtheshadows]

((Just me being indecisive over whether I should freeze or set Vlad on fire. Also Aatrox did not get scrambled eggs for breakfast.)) 

[into-the-spirals-of-my-eyes]

Holy shit so in this ranked game there’s only the Janitor-turned-Mafioso and a claimed sheriff is left. Everyone was like, well Town is toast. AND THEN IT TURNED OUT THAT THE CLAIMED SHERIFF IS A VETERAN AND SHE MADE A CLUTCH MOVE THAT MADE US WIN

[banishingtheshadows]

((okay but why do people ask ‘who should i ban’ and then completely ignore the suggestions made like why fucking bother asking then fuck))

[banishingtheshadows]

((Hi I know I only post here to say I’m still alive so here’s something different

Here’s me making a cool Baron play which negated the other team’s Baron buff entirely because we got an ace

yes, I flashed over the wall and then autoed Baron, I was trying to walk forward more to ult more people but it worked out in the end LMAO

Legit the crowning achievement of my League play so far))

[sharky857]

Tfw you enter ranked with your main (and F up a few key-pressing too) - ...

Ahhh... The sweet, sweet smell of my brain frying up here and there.

[sharky857]

@gaogaigar-the-king Glad to see your Space Child may have a new outfit, but old habits remain hard to die. <3

[sharky857]

Yea it happend to me too that some ranked matches was like "one team getting rekt in 5 minutes" and others were really hard no matter our ranks. I once played a match that felt like playing with bots even enemy team had a really nice team composition. And once I lost because our healer went afk after 2 minutes because he was salty. I thought playing ranked will be a nice challenge for me but sometimes is totaly random xd Congrats on finishing placement!

Thank you! <3

Oh yeah. I witnessed some weird things too. Namely: people getting often very salty at our flanks for not killing this or that enemy Champ. Cotrary to popular belief, I rarely saw anyone getting as salty towards our healers or even tanks.

Team losing badly? It’s all that Skye/Maeve/flank!Pip’s fault for not killing off that enemy Kinessa/Cassie/Lex/whoever.

And the lowest point I witnessed was reached in a match where we had a player picking Fernando and trying to play him as Flanknando (because “double tanks” reasons). Mastery level: two. Yes, they kept dying horribly the whole time while screaming “VHS”.

It is also noteworthy that we were in Stone Keep and enemy team had a Willo spamming a Dead Zone after another from some demi-sniping spots.

Anyway! All in all, I’d rather take a Paladins ranked any day than a casual. Even at lower tiers, basic team comps are often more decent and balanced. If a team has 2 tanks, 1 healer - DPS - flank, so will the other. Unless the very last to pick decides to be a lil’ shiethead and choose a third tank instead. *cough*

P.S.: Playing ranked doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m completely giving up on trainings. I’m training trash and I’ll keep on being training trash. :°D

[sharky857]

So, after nearly two years on Paladins I finally gave those ranked a go for the first time ever.

Today I finished the placements and somewhat I made it Silver I, although there have been times when a match went so badly that I thought the game itself would’ve refused to give me any lacement at all. Only a nice & kind “gtfo comps and come back when you’ll gitgud, scrub :)”

On the downside, me and @gaogaigar-the-king dragged both Serpomiz and @nighta-starfeather into low tier hell, which means that at least one of them went from Platinum V back to Gold I. Whoopsie.