The Reason You Should Never Play Ranked Again

[MultiGamerman]

I mean. Only true Bleepblop fans played him before the buff, but good to see he is getting up there with characters like Bufflop and Dingledorf. Those guys are too OP

[johnjonesring]

i can proudly say i don't play ranked because even though i hate myself i know i deserve better

[daverencordero]

What's interesting is that after countless of hours playing competitive games, you barely remember any of it. Meanwhile, all the casual co-op/single-player games you play stays with you for a long time. Good video!

[midnightpsycho]

I never really got into ranked because of how terrified I would feel playing the game. To me, it felt like I had to do my very best because its ranked, so my anxiety would spike and that's not even mentioning how volatile teammates are when it comes to how the game is going (flaming, pinging, griefing, etc). I'd love to get into it but I can barely play the game on my own (LoL) let alone get into ranked. I play with friends and I have to get going to keep on playing by myself.

[julianedepoorter]

I stopped playing ranked just after akali's rework. It's an important memory for me because I feel that I need to remember it in order to protect myself, and never get to this point again. I was playing Aurelion sol mid against a freshly reworked akali. I got killed, again, and again, and again, it made me so mad that I hit my keyboard. It may not seem like much to some people, but it was a lot for me. I am not a violent person, and I take good care of my stuff because I don't have the money to replace it. So when i hit my poor little laptop, it made me so sad, and scared of my reaction. I didn't recognise myself, and i thought that this game made me violent and dangerous, for real ! So I quit. I didn't play the game for well over a year. Now I just play arams here and there and my life is better. Not just my gaming life, but my life as a whole ! I used to think about my rank way to much, and I only realised it when I stopped playing.

[xeothian]

I think a part about ranked games that really gets underrated is how badly the problems around the meta and players playing like their life depends on it bleeds into the non competitive modes of the game. I like playing the kinds of games that ranked games tend to be for the sake of what you can do in them, but I never like to take them super seriously because I didn't have as much fun when the pressure to win was on. For an example with League, I found it very common for people in normals to expect people to be playing at their very best, and to never deviate from the meta picks if you are good at them, despite the mode supposedly being more casual. I've been tempted to try games like Valorant, but one of the many reasons I never bothered was that I don't think I would simply have the space to just, be bad and learn how to get better in real games, even if the games were unranked

[TheOridionz]

The one thing I hate about ranked. is when a game you enjoy turns into a ranked focus game. the fun dies extremely fast and you struggle with the mental debate of dealing with it or finding another game that could fill your fun void.

[netawa]

Strangely enough, I didnt leave competitive games but rather changed the type. After a certain point, I moved to fighting games. And well, it's still same issues of meta and stuff, but it is also a huge new genre for me to explore. I found a lot of new friends in those games and communities in progress and I find a philosophy which helped me get back to idea of "losing can be fun". But.. to be completly honest, After a while, even those games which presented with way more fair fights, still made me burn out so i moved to coop and solo games slowly exploring things I didnt catch on. There are a lot of games out there, make some memories there, guys. After all, what is left of us is only memory.

[askingwhyisfree]

One good thing about competitive gaming is that it increase my toxicity tolerance in real life. When I encounter a toxic person in real life, my brain starts to analyze instead of reacting. That's something good imo. The bad thing about competitive gaming is addiction, health consequences, false sense of achievement.

[AndroidMarginau]

*lose a ranked game, gets angry
*open Skooch video
*Listen Chrono Trigger music
*Soul recovered, internal peace

[ПетърСолакоф]

Scootch, this is why I love you. You are so introspective and so nice and I love the fact that you are spending time to shine a light on these important topic.

[Jakal-Lantern]

I never really got into ranked, but have been playing league consistently for about 5 years now. I keep coming back because I love the sense of constant improvement. I always feel like there is something I can improve at or learn. But Ive barely touched ranked and havent played a single ranked game for the past couple seasons because having that skill tied to a number that 9 other people every game have an impact on, just isnt satisfying to me. Im content knowing that if I look at a replay from myself a year ago, I will be a much better player now than I was back then. It honestly annoys me when people only care about what rank you are, instead of your actual gameplay. (side note: in most games the displayed rank is almost meaningless because the system actually uses a hidden mmr value to calculate your skill. so your displayed rank, especially in league, to me only shows how much of a masochist you are to play that many games to achieve a good rank)

[screenzaver]

That dad joke hit harder than I expected it would sheeeesh

[frogsdoingyoga]

I've had friendships ruined over competitive games. When I get into a game it's because it enjoy it and want to have a good time, but i've had friends coerce me to play certain games and focus too much on winning, optimization, meta, etc. It sucked, especially when it was something like an MMO or a survival game where the journey was so much more fun and more important than the destination— but the person was focused on optimizing their build choices or rushing to the end-game. I would end up resenting the person and would dread being asked to play with them, eventually getting to a point where i had to admit i didnt want to hang out with them anymore. Nowadays when it comes to PVP games like league or overwatch i tend to just play the unranked modes if i play them at all.

[tiaralcu]

"go ahead and open a zoo bc the monkeys are coming" made me wheeze so hard 😭

[lerobot]

I've been thinking lately of quitting ranked for some time now, I've had experienced the mentioned rank team "rng" by being grouped with literal monkeys that go 0/5 in the first 6 minutes of the game after i had a win streak. Recently I've gotten into making steam workshop mods for games such as Barotrauma or Europa Universalis IV which i find very fun to do although time consuming. This video i believe is my turning point, I'll be doing more of what I enjoy and not play competitively in a multiplayer game for a long time, maybe forever if nothing changes to the way ranked manipulates a person like mentioned in this video, cheers.

[RageKroc]

A certified Skoochalicious classic. Even if this as close to League as Skooch will fly, I can die happy.

[Bendzsike]

What you said at 11:35 perfectly lines up with what I started to feel nowadays. In the last couple of weeks, I didn't log on to League, only to play normals with friends, and I started playing Sea of Thieves with a friend, and let me tell you, it's amazing!

[carolinac]

Ironic enough, I started playing league because of you and also stopped playing league around the time you started mentioning your thoughts on quitting league on your streams. I only really enjoyed playing league because it was a fun game, cool mechanics and it felt so great when you landed your abilities!

Now the problem started when all of my draft games felt like ranked games all of a sudden. I needed to think about warding, objectives and all of the stuff that I was thinking of already but never took too seriously. The thing is that eventually these things did make me beat myself down for not being good enough. It actually made me feel depressed and I got some anger issues from it, but I kept on going because it was so addicting.

Thankfully I just decided competitive gaming isn't for me. I prefer enjoying a random game I found on steam than fighting to be the best in a videogame without having any fun throughout that entire journey.

[BarryBonds]

Im a fan of ranked queues because i find fun in competition. As a kid i wasnt much of a gamer and got that fix through organized sports. As a 30 year old with more responsibility, this is a quick and easy wasy for me and my buddies to scratch that competitive ich that we had when we were young. Even if all the ranked games we play arent truely competitive it doesnt really matter, it still gives me that same feel of competition with my friends even tho we are grown up and not playing basketball or baseball for our town leagues.