Originally Posted by
EJM
No you don't. You will regret it when you do. Take it from us.
I highly disagree. As a person who got placed bronze 1 in my first ranked season, and worked my way to platinum, it is fully worth it to start doing ranked whenever you can.
You simply just learn more from ranked games as apposed to normal games.
Really, if you get placed bronze, that's probably where you should be, and then you will either fall or rise from there.
Point being, as long as you are playing ranked to learn as apposed to having a high rank, you will move up on your own.
Time is precious, don't waste it.
tl;dr: Learn more from ranked, move up faster.