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What are normals like for you?

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tl2212
Profile Joined April 2013
Belize731 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-22 00:16:00
January 21 2015 21:57 GMT
#1
I'm making this thread hoping that some higher ELO players will respond, because I would be interested in hearing what they would say.

I guess for me normals will usually have one team that picks standard/strong meta picks and one team will pick totally random / troll picks. (Not saying these can't be strong picks) That or one team might even mess up their picks, like by picking two mids or not having a support. Lol happens amirite.

Also I will generally play whatever role I feel like in normals cause it's not ranked. Can be fun or I end up feeding lol....

Another question is if you ever go into normals solo or if you always use the buddy system!

There's still an ELO system for normals right? is it the same as your ranked ELO or is it a different one?

... sorry noob questions... tell me if i'm not positing in the right place
economy over everything
infinitestory
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States4053 Posts
January 21 2015 21:59 GMT
#2
I pick support Galio or Kalista and terror my teammates massively, then they carry me to victory. I never solo.
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tl2212
Profile Joined April 2013
Belize731 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-22 00:16:53
January 22 2015 00:16 GMT
#3
On January 22 2015 06:59 infinitestory wrote:
I pick support Galio or Kalista and terror my teammates massively, then they carry me to victory. I never solo.


What division are you in ranked? Do you think players in normal are worse or better than when you play ranked?

Support galio sounds fun tho! hahah
economy over everything
Slusher
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States19143 Posts
January 22 2015 00:22 GMT
#4
the more normals you play the more it resembles ranked,

generally speaking the people who percive normals as a clown shoes zone have a corresponding mmr, up until players they can't outplay with garbage.
Carrilord has arrived.
infinitestory
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States4053 Posts
January 22 2015 00:50 GMT
#5
On January 22 2015 09:16 tl2212 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 22 2015 06:59 infinitestory wrote:
I pick support Galio or Kalista and terror my teammates massively, then they carry me to victory. I never solo.


What division are you in ranked? Do you think players in normal are worse or better than when you play ranked?

Support galio sounds fun tho! hahah

I *was* plat iv. I think my normals opponents are a lot better about 30% of the time, and same the other 70% of the time.

Support galio is super dumb, he runs out of mana too fast in lane and has little to no utility outside of ult.
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Amui
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada10567 Posts
January 22 2015 01:07 GMT
#6
I haven't played normals in forever.

My main's normal MMR is somewhere around the high gold-low plat range for the most part, aka stomps.

My smurf had MMR somewhere around high diamond, before I transitioned to solely playing ranked.
Porouscloud - NA LoL
krndandaman
Profile Joined August 2009
Mozambique16569 Posts
January 22 2015 03:00 GMT
#7
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wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
January 22 2015 03:13 GMT
#8
On January 22 2015 06:57 tl2212 wrote:
I'm making this thread hoping that some higher ELO players will respond, because I would be interested in hearing what they would say.

I guess for me normals will usually have one team that picks standard/strong meta picks and one team will pick totally random / troll picks. (Not saying these can't be strong picks) That or one team might even mess up their picks, like by picking two mids or not having a support. Lol happens amirite.

Also I will generally play whatever role I feel like in normals cause it's not ranked. Can be fun or I end up feeding lol....

Another question is if you ever go into normals solo or if you always use the buddy system!

There's still an ELO system for normals right? is it the same as your ranked ELO or is it a different one?

... sorry noob questions... tell me if i'm not positing in the right place

define "high" elo.
I'm gold 1, most of my gold 1 matches have me paired up with plat 3 guys, but i troll so fucking much in normals (shit like akali jungle, or fiddle mid) I'm always playing with silver 2 and silver 3 players.
liftlift > tsm
NeoIllusions
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
United States37500 Posts
January 22 2015 04:15 GMT
#9
I play with "fun police". It's kinda why I have ~2.6K normal wins.
Always 5 stack, queues can take a while at odd hours but teams are always competent.
ModeratorFor the Glory that is TeamLiquid (-9 | 155) | Discord: NeoIllusions#1984
739
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Bearded Elder29903 Posts
January 22 2015 08:40 GMT
#10
Haven't played a normal games for 1,5 year. No friends to play premade 5's :\
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Okazaki
Profile Joined June 2010
Canada29 Posts
January 22 2015 09:07 GMT
#11
My draft normal MMR is pretty high, so its just like ranked queues, gotten worse recently because of ranked banned players being forced to play normal draft
TheEmulator
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
28090 Posts
January 22 2015 09:25 GMT
#12
On January 22 2015 13:15 NeoIllusions wrote:
I play with "fun police". It's kinda why I have ~2.6K normal wins.
Always 5 stack, queues can take a while at odd hours but teams are always competent.

What's the "fun police".
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739
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Bearded Elder29903 Posts
January 22 2015 10:14 GMT
#13
I think it means, they make sure the game is being played for fun, not for tryharding ?
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NeoIllusions
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
United States37500 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-22 14:02:43
January 22 2015 13:58 GMT
#14
haha, it's actually the opposite. It's a bunch of well known, high elo normal guys who are known to tryhard and 5 stack with other familiar names. Ehomda is probably the most famous one. Gandhisauce (used to post here on TL) also plays in the same group.

"fun police" refers to the fact that these guys limit, or police, the amount of fun for other players who blind normal queue. I think DkBnet, one of the best ADCs in the group, has like 4K wins and is like +1500 wins over losses.
ModeratorFor the Glory that is TeamLiquid (-9 | 155) | Discord: NeoIllusions#1984
Uldridge
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Belgium4773 Posts
January 22 2015 15:57 GMT
#15
Where ranked pisses me off, normals make me facepalm.
If I don't play ranked I play with friends 90% of the time I guess? And they don't play ranked (they actually play ARAM most of the time so the normal is kind of rare for them) so they have no clue what to do and we lose horribly because teamcoherence or synergy is completely lacking.
I try to shrug it off, but I'm a very competitive person so unless I stomp or it's an exciting game, it's a lose lose (stomps are just fun because you get to sit in their base at 20 minutes and it becomes some sort of game of who can stay alive the longest or how many times can you ace the enemy team before you get aced or something like that)
Taxes are for Terrans
tl2212
Profile Joined April 2013
Belize731 Posts
January 22 2015 21:55 GMT
#16
On January 22 2015 22:58 NeoIllusions wrote:
haha, it's actually the opposite. It's a bunch of well known, high elo normal guys who are known to tryhard and 5 stack with other familiar names. Ehomda is probably the most famous one. Gandhisauce (used to post here on TL) also plays in the same group.

"fun police" refers to the fact that these guys limit, or police, the amount of fun for other players who blind normal queue. I think DkBnet, one of the best ADCs in the group, has like 4K wins and is like +1500 wins over losses.


I'm so glad this group exists, just being really good and going and stomping in normals XD
economy over everything
Pieftw247
Profile Joined January 2015
United States6 Posts
January 23 2015 18:50 GMT
#17
For me, even though I'm silver, I still normally go 10-0 in normals.
GhandiEAGLE
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States20754 Posts
January 24 2015 19:11 GMT
#18
This thread reminds me of a time where I played bugged Azir in a normal with Neo and got rekt because of it, Neo was like "I'm sorry, I play my normals pretty tryhard, I guess that's not for everybody :/" and then leaves lol

Then like a month later I'm playing another normal and Neo is feeding as support Fizz LOL
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NeoIllusions
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
United States37500 Posts
January 24 2015 19:35 GMT
#19
On January 25 2015 04:11 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
This thread reminds me of a time where I played bugged Azir in a normal with Neo and got rekt because of it, Neo was like "I'm sorry, I play my normals pretty tryhard, I guess that's not for everybody :/" and then leaves lol

Then like a month later I'm playing another normal and Neo is feeding as support Fizz LOL

I like how your story leaves out that I locked in Fizz first but some other guy also picks mid and I decide to play nice and go support instead.
I wouldn't pick support Fizz willingly, thanks.
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Amui
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada10567 Posts
January 24 2015 19:37 GMT
#20
On January 25 2015 04:35 NeoIllusions wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2015 04:11 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
This thread reminds me of a time where I played bugged Azir in a normal with Neo and got rekt because of it, Neo was like "I'm sorry, I play my normals pretty tryhard, I guess that's not for everybody :/" and then leaves lol

Then like a month later I'm playing another normal and Neo is feeding as support Fizz LOL

I like how your story leaves out that I locked in Fizz first but some other guy also picks mid and I decide to play nice and go support instead.
I wouldn't pick support Fizz willingly, thanks.

Secret don't report strat.
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