So what do you guys think of this new ranked split so far ?
All I have seen is that plat now is basically full of gold players and emerald is kinda hard to get out off.
I know it's still early in the split to say anything decisive but what are your thoughts ?
External link →Damn, if emerald actually goes from gold 1 to d4, that elo is gonna be a shit show.
Thanks for the insight, I guess we'll have to wait and see.
As far as I know MMR and the requisite matchmaking are unaffected. If you weren't in Gold 1 games as D4 (I sure wasn't when I was D4) then there's no reason you'll suddenly be in low Emerald 4 games at Emerald 1.
I think its more about the vast disparity between player skill in the same rank.
I can only speak for myself here, but im playing my way through emerald right now, and im getting matched with anything between plat 1 and emerald 1. And if emerald 4 is equal to gold 1 from last season, and emerald 1 is equal to d4 from last season then you can see why the rank would be a shitshow.
Although so far i havent really noticed much of a difference between player skill myself. Everyone is equally bad or good, some just have good or bad games.
As someone already said its still too early to tell if the skill difference between emerald 4 and 1 is going to be as big as its expected, but if it really is that big then we're back to the old diamond clownshow. Where difference between d5 and d2 were so big it felt like you went from bot games to pro play.
I know what you're saying. Back when I was good enough to be D1 in ~2014 I could easily feel the D5 vs D1 gulf within the first wave or two. I've gotten worse and now I can't :P
At the end of the day, visible ranks are a little fake right now. I ended last split D2, I ended placements E1, and haven't really looked at the ranks of the other players but they feel pretty similar to my end-of-split games. I can imagine if my first game was a loss instead of a win, I'd have started E3 after my first game. This will always happen after a ranked reset. I think it'll just sort itself out throughout the split but it'd be worth checking in on that once it has.
Hey Phreak would you know how the new rank affects the balance framework, does plat get bumped down to average play or emerald just squeezed into high elo
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