No, hitting Legend does not require a lot of skill. It requires a lot of time, but skill is optional. Skill does help reaching it faster, but you only need skill worth more than 1250 crowns per match (match cost in Diamond) to eventually reach Legend, that's the problem.
Current proposal is more like a race to rank up, not a ranked system where top leagues are exclusive to most skilled players.
Making these kind of pronouncements about skill not mattering before it's even released cracks me up haha.
The question is, what does it take to get more than 1250 crowns per match at Diamond? Once you are at Diamond it's going to be very hard to get that many crowns if your team loses, so by definition _at least half_ of players in a Diamond-ranked match are typically losing Crowns instead of gaining them.
If your issue is that the ranked system rewards players who both play more and win more, well...yeah. That's by design.
I won't pretend that we got all the numbers exactly right first try with Accolades/Leagues - we'll be watching how it plays out and can adjust many things dynamically without requiring a new patch. That said, we did a lot of real-world data analysis to determine the initial numbers.
In terms of our goals, Bronze/Silver can be thought of as introductory (since you can't lose Crowns), and Gold+ is where skill becomes the main differentiator.
A few clarifications:
* It is definitely not "just a grind" once you hit Gold+. Probably more accurate to say "you have to grind and do consistently well" if you want to hit higher tiers. You will lose crowns if you do poorly (and if we find that to not be the case, we'll adjust entry fees and accolade values to fix it!).
* The amount of crowns awarded by accolades varies by League. Some accolades (e.g. around exiling Vowguard) stop awarding Crowns altogether at higher leagues.
* Matchmak...
Even in Leagues?
There are no changes to the game mode for ranked/unranked at this time.
(Knowledge Potion drops are very rare - not something you're going to see every match)
Vowguard even drop Knowledge Potions once in a while! 😁
We were actually talking about that when we were pulling still shots out of it for thumbnails yesterday! MEME IT HARD.
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