User blog comment:Fistful of Force/Play every game seriously/@comment-89.75.167.175-20120728231654

I believe that:

- If you want to grab daily IPs or just fool around, go custom/ basic coop.

- if you want to see how a newly-bought champion works, go intermediate coop. Intermediate bots cheat on gold and if fed, they can snowball out of control - which gives you a 50 minute game of attrition. So, if you want to go diving at lvl 1, don't go Intermediate.

- if you want to practice something you're not good at, go normal. Do the best you can and it's enough. You don't have to be pro. Just don't troll the game and waste other people's time.

- finally, if you want to play really seriously, play ranked. Don't check new champs on ranked. Don't practice new, unorthodox builds you haven't tried yet. Play as good as you can with champions you at least checked out in normal games. Again, you don't HAVE to be a pro games to go ranked, but it is at least expected you will pick a role that is needed, adapt to situation, counterpick if possible and not get counterpicked (i.e. don't pick Ryze mid on first pick...) and play seriously.

Whatever happens though, don't rage if someone picks a weird champion. Don't rage if they do something unorthodox. Don't leave. Don't AFK. Play your best, learn from your mistakes (even if someone else it clearly to blame for the loss) and take it like a man.