I hear a lot of hate on this sub for unrated because there's nothing to fight for, because it's not as competitive. Whatever fine.

But for me I have been loving unrated. I solo queue at diamond/immortal and sometimes play with a high plat friend but my other friends are all silver and gold. When ranked was within 6 tiers they would constantly get shit on and then flamed by our teammates. "Why is there a gold player in a plat/diamond game?” the toxicity was unreal and my friends stopped playing for a month because it wasn't fun and was stressful to get yelled at every game. Since the new changes we suggested to just play unrated. Everyone tries, we use comms and every few rounds we try ridiculous strats. It has been extremely fun. So fun in fact my friend said, "fuck competitive, unrated is so much better”

Sometimes you guys have no idea about the effect your words have on the people in this game. 99% of you will not be at ESL or IEM. Riot isn't killing the casual player base. You are.

If this post gets removed so be it. But I felt it needed to be said.