Apparently thats how long diamond 1 jainas live into a match. She had 3 deaths at 5 mins, and 9 ina 12 min game… wtf
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See…I read stuff like this, and lose all motivation to spread my wings from QM into ranked. It doesn’t sound any better, and in fact sounds worse because:
- Additional draft toxicity
- People “should” know better in progressively higher ranks
- Greater motivation for trolls and throwers to ruin games (there is more at stake for the others)
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To be honest, there isn’t a whole lot of that going on in ranked but there sure is a lot of feeding going on.
Less feeding in QM, from my own experience so take it with a grain of salt.
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I have never seen some one die before the minions hit the second gate. Even people that run down mid dont die that fast.
This is classic “Bruiser Jaina” play, it happens. If I made a thread to complain about it every time it happened it would be 3 threads a day! 
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I posted this yesterday or some other day, but ranks are all over the place now. It’s a total mess. You can meet a really good player or really bad player in all ranks. There are no true badges of skill anymore except maybe Grand Master.
Smurfs being present in all leagues in vast numbers muddies the waters even more; That Silver 1 you played against might be a Master main who created a new account for YouTube challenges or Twitch streams.
You can meet all sorts of people in all ranks. A Diamond 1 could play worse than a Gold depending on the circumstances. Or you can meet a Gold that gets outplayed by a Bronze 2. There is no telling anymore. Anyone can be at any rank (except GM).
You are not missing much currently if you only play human games in QM or Unranked.
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maybe a boosted Jaina? Drunk Jaina? Tilted Jaina? I think the former is more likely. I solo Q only and I see potatoes queuing up with high rankers all the time. Taking advantage of a system that is easily exploited.
We are in Lockdown (mostly) it could be day drinking Jaina! Let’s give toast…no wait… I never touch the stuff!
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Ranked have been even worse then it used to be after the lockdown.
Plot twist jaina thinks “if those passive baddies followed me it would have been an easy kill , boosted peons , we lost.”
And then comes to the forum complaining people on diamond are boosted.
The cycle , is complete.
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Pff rooky numbers. Back in my day…
Losing motivation to play a more balanced mode because there is still a chance that some players screw up it up?
Makes sense xD
If I invest more time into the match, I will expect a better experience. Everyone is still as bad, so might as well stick in QM.
Of course there are bad players in both modes. Why would you expect something else? The ranked ladder is open for everyone and that’s okay because everyone has place on that ladder. Why would there be a bronze5 division if there wouldn’t be any bad players on the ladder?
The difference between QM and draft modes has not much to do with the skills of the players.
The difference is that you can adjust your hero pick to the map, to the other team members and enemy players. If this doesn’t matter to you then stick with QM.
Have you never been in a QM where your pick was bad for the map and your team gets rolled over by some premade teams that abuse the matchmaking rules? Or is this expected because of your low time investment?^^
A lot of people in Ranked (any level) tend to play heroes they are unfamiliar with or are uncomfortable with. Could be that person is a tank main and doesn’t play a lot of assassin. Without access to the replay or knowing the other team comp its really hard to judge, so this kind of becomes an empty “Waaa my jaina died a lot baby rage” thread. Did the other team have a lot of dive ? did jaina face check bushes or get ganked or whatever.
If she walked into towers and died or died alone getting a 2 merc merc camp then I feel your pain. Did she get rotated on all game ? or was she the other teams priority ? think about it.
I go into QM accepting that this might happen. Usually premades get matched against better opponents, so it’s rarely a stomp (on the some premise of being a premades).
I get your point though. Still, “just” building a better team is usually not worth it, since up until master, coordination and not making bad plays is more important than the actual teams (extremes nonwithstanding).
there could be something to this. I’ve found that brawls have been some of the most competitive (and fun) games I’ve played. Whereas I don’t think I’ve ever had a ranked game I’ve enjoyed - not even the wins.
Well… looks like someone was globe hunting.
those globes are always so tempting. i was in a brawl playing stitches. i thought to myself… stitches is hungry… for hearts!
so i went around collecting the little hearts. my team pinging me to help them. 
…but those globes tasted so goooood
to be fair though we did win. i helped them in between snacks. stitches was so full of the little globes he was the healthiest abomination ever!
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