[2021] I think having the ranks rumored in the beta would be so much cooler

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I remember that back in the beta before ranked was released this was how the ranks were rumored to look, I have no idea why they decided against it and instead go with what we have in the game right now but in my opinion, this would be so much cooler to have in the game. Right now the ranks are pretty generic and boring and I think it sounds way cooler to say that you are a legend in Valorant instead of saying that you are Plat in Valorant. And I think the colors are more interesting as well. And although this wouldn't change the ranked games themselves I still think that this would make ranked more interesting than just being names of metals and diamonds.

Edit: they should keep radiant because valorant rank is confusing.

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Originally posted by tomphz

Yes these names are definitely cooler, but they’re not very intuitive.

If you didn’t have this picture, It’d be hard to tell out of Mercenary, Hero, or Soldier which one is considered the best or the worst.

Much easier to assume that Gold is better than Silver, Bronze and Iron.

This was pretty much the conversation when the change happened. Yes, these ranks sounded cooler, but when you started trying to have a conversation with someone out of game about your rank, or tell a friend what your rank was, you needed to have this image handy to explain it otherwise you'd get confused.

Internally we'd be like "what rank are you?" "oh I'm, uh, the red one? Or was it purple?" "Oh cool, I'm the triangle"

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