Why "Rank Demotion" Shouldn't Really Exist
Images are marked as "spoilers", so you don't have to scroll as much when reloading the page to reply. Pros and a bunch of players for some reason are like "we need rank demotion, these guys shoul...
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@Midnight9746 Imo once you get to a rank you stay there, earning the rank badge for whatever split. The only thing that makes it fair is if at the start of the next split, everyone in that rank gets reset to (insert rank) level IV.
To get the rank badge for said next split, you would then need to get up to (at least) level II of that rank in said next split.
Obviously preds get reset to Master IV, and away ye go boys 😃
- @OldTreeCreeper This is how it SHOULD be. While, yes... smurphs do exist, it would certainly help not have diamond players in a "gold" lobby.
@Midnight9746 really don't see why diamonds have to repeat the fact that they can stomp silver and gold (or even bronze after a second split) lobbies each split.
Doublelift, a famous Leage of legends streamer and ex-pro, confirmed on his stream that Lol ranked used at least three different sorting algoritms for the ranked matchmaking:
1) normal, which prioritized players with no ELO vs rank irregularities to be matched with each other
2) "recovery", which prioritized players that once had a much higher ELO than his current rank to be matched with each other
3) smurfs, which prioritized players that obviously was playing on smurf accounts to be matched with each other
Just speculations but perhaps is Apex using something similar. Perhaps are players that previously reached platinum matched together regardless of what rank they currently play in beween bronze and gold. This would validate the bronze-to-gold lobbies from a competitive fairness pov and also explain why bronze-gold lobbies are even sweatier than some platinum lobbies....
Guess this is easily examined by creating a brand-new account and purposely play badly, like just hipfire spray and go <1 KD.. If you play like this through the entire Rookie and bronze ranks and still get very bad opponent in Silver, than I think its safe to say that there in fact are several rank queues. Perhaps I will do this by playing with controller as a M+K player. I will legit be a <1 KD player then =)
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