[2023] What’s Next for Ranked

You should find yourself actually already in Emerald pretty quickly and be roughly the same distance you are from Diamond. The goal is to just add Emerald within the distribution, and adjust players based on the new scales with Emerald now in that equation. So if you're pretty close to Diamond now, you'll still be pretty close to Diamond after. Getting there is still up to you.

Demotion shields are still in place. Getting promoted into immediately demoted is a pretty bad experience we can avoid while maintaining integrity, if you really aren't cut out for a rank you achieved you won't hold it long term.

Yeah we feel like they did add intensity or excitement for some players, for others it was a very stressful moment. It was enough of a mixed bag to think about and evaluate it. Couple that with a reset in the year and it feels like the promos were something a player would be encountering too often. Climbing will still be climbing, you just won't potentially hit a wall because you have some bad times in promos.

For the inflation conversation its something the team is going to of course monitor closely and make any changes if we need to but we're pretty confident that it won't result in anything too detrimental or worrying. If we need to followup on this we will.

Game Ruining behavior is a bit more complicated and nuanced of a conversation because that's something handled by multiple teams working in conjunction with our Player Behavior team. We're always working on it but it's just not an easily "solvable" problem. What would you want to hear about or see related to that specifically?

Yep, so mid July (20th from memory, or around there)

It's not explicitly stated in the article but you can see it in the graph bars, the intention is for Master tier to be smaller than it is today in the next split, closer to last year's size at least. Diamond should be slightly smaller too but not by as much.

I don't want to say yes or no because that depends on a lot of factors that aren't easily quantifiable from player to player in a reddit post, but "hypothetically" yes.

The best way to think about it is your distance from Diamond should stay the same. You'll just be doing it with some Emerald colors instead of Platinum.

congrats on your progression. I'm really proud of you

So, no promises, but we're considering calling the lowest tier in the rating system for the 2v2v2v2 mode "Wood"...

Yes the honor requirement is still in place. We're trying to get an update into the client tooltip to make this clear before the end of the split.

Yup! Gold will stay the low-points-requirement for Split 2 too.

We're looking at a rating system similar to the one HyperRoll in TFT uses, so not the default ranked system but something that serves a fairly similar (though not quite as sweaty on average) purpose

Plat is getting a visual update too!

Our thinking is that in a less serious context like for the 2v2v2v2 mode, that doesn't have the same permanence or history, that embracing the meme nature of Wood should be fine. We'll see of course, but feels meaningfully different to us than the context with the standard ranked system

/approved

We're really cautious about adding anything that encourages tryharding to the game mode most loved for being casual.

It'll stay the same as it is today, Diamond+ only.

I'm finally gonna get plat

Considering eh?

Not before yellow rank