Hey Hey!

We had a few concepts that we tried out for the lobby background of ranked. We tried a few locations and subtle interactions, one idea we really liked was having your team inside the plane itself.

In the end, we went with the current version because we wanted the emphasis of the scene to be on you and your squad and we didn't want the scene to be too distracting. The ranked lobby background was a fun mini-project because this was the first time we got to focus on the player rather than tying it together with the season.

I'll also mention that the Environment and UI teams are currently looking at ways we can improve them and let players show off more of their identity. We're still very early on in the process though.

Warm milkshakes are usually my go-to.

We understand that giving all rewards at Gold and above can be less incentivizing to players who strive to be much higher in the Ranked ladder. The rewards system will continue to be worked on so that players in different tiers will have separate milestones to aim for.

Ha ha, figured this one would come up pretty quickly. Although we’re not able to give you an exact date at the moment, we promise that this is being looked into as a high priority. A lot of us here in the office working on Ranked are solo players - I for one would have loved if we could have started off with a solo Ranked mode! At the end of the day though, we decided to emphasize stability and played it safe by going with squads only, since squads is far and away the most popular team size in all regions. We’re going to keep pushing this rock up the hill and if it’s at all possible to do so in a healthy way you can rest assured that there will be a solo and/or duo mode someday. Thanks for voicing your interest and helping to keep the solo/duo dream alive!

Hey blinkgecko182! We actually wanted to do this with the launch of the ranked system using the weapon a player favorited in the weapon mastery system, but it proved to be more complex than we thought on the development side. To give you some insight:

- There are 8 different poses (one for pre-ready up, one for post-ready up),

- There are 6-7 different weapon categories we'd need to account for (for example, a new pose was wanted for holding a pistol vs a sniper).

- Many, many skins for your favorite weapons

So that's 56 poses + animations we'd need to test for performance, clipping issues, etc. You can see how this could get a little crazy.

Ultimately we decided this wasn't realistic for the launch of the feature, but I still believe this is a pretty cool quality of life improvement, and love that you had the same thought!

The way the RP change calculation for Ranked works involves comparing the possible ‘points’ that have been earned from kills, assists, and placement with a players current RP and then making an adjustment based on how far above or below the ‘expected performance’ the player actually ended up. The amount of points that it is possible to earn from each of these metrics is limited, and the expected performance takes that limitation into account.

For example, there will reach a point in the Ranks where even having the max points from kills or the max points from placements will not allow you to advance if you don’t also receive points from other sources. Therefore, players who have tendencies like hot dropping for kills and dying early or hiding all game and never fighting will eventually reach a point where it’s not possible for them to rank up any more - and that point is not particularly high up on the ladder.

For this reason, players who rely on luck or cheesy stra...

This is on our radar, and we are working on a way to compensate players who had the misfortune of having to deal with a bad experience due to cheaters. We agree 100% that your RP shouldn’t have to suffer in such cases.

Yes he does play Riven.

P.S. My Cho'gath is better ;)

just a joke about him having moderator in my stream