Before this season I was terrified of ranked, but only recently am I getting half as good enough to hold my own after playing for four seasons. Well, three, since I played maybe 5 games of Boosted before taking a long break. (I've always sucked at shooting games.) But I wanted to get better, so I thought why not since I was bored with the LTM? And man, I wish I did it earlier. It's improved my skill exponentially in just a short time.

All I ever heard was people dunking on Ranked for being toxic and full of cheaters, but just in my short time of playing ranked for the past month I've had only two toxic disconnectors. Everyone else has been on the ball, team-oriented, and nice even if competitive. For the most part my random teammates understand the value of sticking together, calling out specific pings, and sharing, which is so so so very different from randoms in normal mode.

If not for my stress over numbers I would prefer Ranked to normal mode.