General DiscussionShould I play ranked?

ranked is for everyone i guess, eh? no matter how good or bad you are, you will be matched with players with skill equal to yours.

I see, but I haven't really even calibrated at all yet. Will my first game(s) be awful?

There is no diffrence between calibration games and other games

nah, they wont be worse than in NMM. on average, you will get less feeders/leavers, but since people in ranked are more motivated, they will also be more toxic sometimes.

The 3 main reasons not to play ranked are:

1. You are testing out a hero/item-/skillbuild and don't want to impose your inexperience on other ranked players.

2. Ladder anxiety.

3. You are stacking with someone who either a) can't play ranked yet or b) whose MMR is too far apart from yours to play ranked.