User blog comment:Nhan-Fiction/A Casual Attitude Waters Down Ranked Play/@comment-2248060-20130308235039/@comment-5001455-20130309215521

It's a bit of both. I expect people to mess around in normal games, as in stuff like joking around after a death and whatnot are more than acceptable in the sense that (technically) the game doesn't matter. Win or lose, you can walk away from the game and play another one right afterward.

I try to play normal games to practice, as well as to hang out with friends.

Ranked games, on the other hand, should entail a different approach. Everyone should be taking the outcome a lot more seriously.

Like I said, I expect ranked mode to be full of try-hards, so getting that ally who isn't one can mean all the difference in the world with winning or losing in the end.

We all have been stomped by the other team that is doing everything possible to crush you, and it is just super annoying when you have teammates who aren't putting up a fight.

If someone doesn't feel like trying to win a "hard" game of LoL, then they should stick to normals. This is all I am trying to argue.