TFT ranked match-making

PAINTRAlN·10/15/2019, 12:15:27 AM·1 votes·639 views

Currently gold 1 on my main account and bronze 4 on a smurf. When playing ranked for both, I notice some games can have 3 different ranks in one game. Less variability in my gold 1 games (mostly gold and plat). But in my bronze games, I commonly see unranked, bronze, silver and gold all in one game. How is that possible?

Is this normal? and why?

Not a problem for me since I play as a gold player anyways. But what about people who are unranked and bronze, actually play at that level? How is it fair for them to play against golds?

Curious to know.

2 Comments

Unker13910/15/2019, 12:53:04 AM1 votes

One of the nice things about the ranking in tft is that everything is off your individual skill. Even of you are in a mismatched game, your gains and losses will reflect how you did compared to how you were expected to do.

Think of each match as seven individual games. You win against everyone you place higher than and lose to everyone lower.

A bronze in an all platinum game (not likely to happen) is expected to come in 8th will not lose much if they go 2-5 (6th) and might even gain going 3-4 (5th) if the top ranks finish lower than them.