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New Ranked System

PhilipN·11/2/2018, 8:38:45 PM·1 votes·1,769 views

I posted a couple of questions about the ranked system that's coming out in 2 weeks, but I'm not sure whether that was the correct forum (or whether this one is, for that matter), so I'll repost them here to see if anyone has answers:

Will the ranks be similar in level of play? (In other words, will the border between Bronze and Silver hover around the same MMR that it does today, or will next season's Silver 4--the new bottom rank of Silver--be about the same level as mid-silver nowadays, or something like that?) Will the achievement of climbing to Gold next season be the same as climbing to Gold this season, or will it be more like climbing to mid-Silver or even mid-Gold in past seasons, in terms of the Elo you need to be playing at?

I guess the gist of this question is, "What will the conversion factor between old rank and new rank be?" Will new Bronze 1 be roughly equivalent to old Bronze 1, or old Silver 4?

With position-specific ranks, will it require us "Fill" players to play more placement games? For example, will it be necessary to play 10 games in each role to get a rank in that role? I could be playing placements for up to 50 placement games if that's the case!

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Nevurwin11/2/2018, 8:56:18 PM1 votes

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Will the ranks be similar in level of play? (In other words, will the border between Bronze and Silver hover around the same MMR that it does today, or will next season's Silver 4--the new bottom rank of Silver--be about the same level as mid-silver nowadays, or something like that?) Will the achievement of climbing to Gold next season be the same as climbing to Gold this season, or will it be more like climbing to mid-Silver or even mid-Gold in past seasons, in terms of the Elo you need to be playing at?

I believe the rank values will remain the same aside from~~ low-mid bronze which is the target area for Iron~~. These players will be getting divided out into lower ranks because there is a large bottleneck of players in that tier. The climb to Gold will remain the same, or be easier since more people will now be in a more fitting rank instead of bottle-necked at a certain point.

Edit : This new tier will diminish inconsistencies among matchmaking. It will feel like you're in control of more of your matches.

Edit 2 : correction , The bottleneck actually occurs at low-mid silver and that is the target area.

I guess the gist of this question is, "What will the conversion factor between old rank and new rank be?" Will new Bronze 1 be roughly equivalent to old Bronze 1, or old Silver 4?

With position-specific ranks, will it require us "Fill" players to play more placement games? For example, will it be necessary to play 10 games in each role to get a rank in that role? I could be playing placements for up to 50 placement games if that's the case!

Yes, you will need to play placements for each role... assuming our region gets the system implemented. I don't think they are starting with NA. Assuming all goes well, we should get the new system by the 2nd or 3rd split. However, your positional ranks wont be drastically different from your overall main rank. RIOT stated they will essentially all be tied together. So i imagine if you're platinum+ you wont be getting silver or bronze in any role, no matter how poorly you perform.

DaTrout7711/2/2018, 9:04:08 PM1 votes

This is just speculation but since they are making all teirs only have 4 divisions, i think that Plat and down will get shifted 1 division in skill lvl. For example if your a Gold 5 player you would now be a silver 1 player and that would force silver 1 players into silver 2 and so on. I dont think the shift in skill will be because of the new teir i think it will be because the removing of the 5th division

PhilipN11/6/2018, 1:05:54 AM1 votes

p.s. Is NA not getting the new rank tiers until later on next season, or just not getting the position ranks until later on?