The Adventures of Ranked

I remember back to my beginning of playing League. In fact I remember when my boyfriend had me play the tutorial on his account. I got so upset that I pushed the computer away and rage quit. And that was just the tutorial. I'm not exactly sure what got me to even be interested in playing better. But it almost felt like no time, and forever, but I reached level 30. Before then those last 10 levels were great. I would play with my boyfriend and sometimes people I never met. I would carry the game with 10-20 kills, 1-3 deaths, and 5-15 assists. The enemy team after the game would be stunned, and everyone wanted me on their friend list with them. Either team would ask me to play ranked with the way I played with them, they would be carried to diamond in no time. Well let me tell you.

Do not play ranked.
Ever.

Everyone was shocked when I would tell them, "I can't play ranked, i'm not even level 30." Well now. Ranked is a completely different ball park. You would think that ranked would be harder, because, you know, all of the real players play ranked. Well. It's not. Ranked is harder because first off, everyone who plays ranked, is bad. I completely agree with Sky 100% that people who play ranked, think that League is an anime. Or Pokemon. Or some Japanese made game. They think that they are the protagonist in this anime on the road to Diamond. And that if they just jump in and do whatever. Then everything is going to go their way, because it has to, because they're the main character.

On the last game of my promotion series, it was myself, a Jinx in bot lane. And here we have Blitzcrank, who is my support. We were against Draven. And Thresh. And in the beginning of the game Blitzcrank is like, "Jump right in there and be offensive in the beginning!!!" Well Unfortunately for Blitzcrank, he was unaware that you cannot simply just, "Jump in there." When any time you leave the safety of your minions, Thresh will hook you. And you'll be set for death. So what does he do? He jumps in there. And what happens? Thresh hooks him. And he complains, "He's playing behind his minions, no fair!"
What again did the tutorial tell us?

So anyway Blitzcrank just began to feed. We lost that game. And I died five times. But the tragic thing. Is that in 8 of my 10 promotion games. Atleast one if not two or three people on my team were just like that. I was sure I would end up in Bronze V [In the ranking system, there are certain tiers of each rank. V {roman five} is the lowest, and I {roman one} the highest. After you then proceed to the lowest tier of the next rank. Bronze is the lowest.] But some how something had blessed me and I have been spared of the tortures of bronze- And made it into silver.

Sadly though I am 97% sure that I cannot make it to gold by tomorrow to be given Victorious Sivir.

So what's everyone else's experiences with Ranked? What's your preferred play style? Leave a comment below!