Custom CC Games are way better than Ranked

[Aravell]

The issue, I believe, is that many of us are a little tired of the attitudes that elements of Discord bring to PvP. They have the power to do so much good, and maybe these custom matches might fall into that category. But when one witnesses the contempt many in this Discord "community" hold for players who are not part of their clique, conflict follows. When that is compounded by abusive vote-kicking, harassment of dissenters and stalking of their FC friends who do not even play PvP, and being followed and harassed on Discord servers devoted to different games, yeah, claws get sharpened.

I see your point, personally the only interaction I had with any PvP community was an extremely toxic one back during The Feast, but I'm not about to hold every PvP community accountable for it. I'd like to believe that some genuinely want to just have fun.

Admittedly, that's still a very real possibility at both servers I linked. Rising Stars definitely is geared more towards higher end players looking to break into organized play, but if we see something like that happen at either discord we'll give advice on how to play. Much healthier than ranked which just expects you to figure it out.

I would say that as long as they learn something by the end of the match, it's probably worth it.

I notice that people dipping their toes into ranked for the first time just coast by relatively freely until about gold tier, then they get a harsh reality check where they start losing matches and have deaths from things they don't understand.

[Mawlzy]

I see your point, personally the only interaction I had with any PvP community was an extremely toxic one back during The Feast, but I'm not about to hold every PvP community accountable for it. I'd like to believe that some genuinely want to just have fun.

100%. I try to target my venom at the "community" directly responsible for my harassment.