This. When you're on the bootton ranks - of course you probably won't see great players, and the main milestones are ranks 10 and 5. Of course, I'm not saying that everyone with ranks 5-1 is a unicum player, since persistence can also help, but to get first rank (and even fifth rank) you need to be reasonably good.
Maybe I haven't properly phrased that answer. What I mean is that your answer to the topic starter is correct, and then I add to it.
That's one of the reasons CB and RB were made available simultaneously.
But not everyone is blessd with good clan mates, or can align their time to play enough clan battles, so it stays as the alternative. Also, there may be just tase diffences - maybe Tier 9 looks more appealing.
Did you at least save a star?
Well, the algorithm from clan battles is there - it doesn't throw players out, but distributes players among leagues.
But it will properly work only for duels, and doubting do we need this mode or not.
What we want to say though is that Ranked just works - yes it's not pure "competitive" gamemode, it has some casual elements, very good players go through ranks faster, but reasonably good one can still achieve rank 1 with time, and it's popular, a lot of players like it. So implementing some competive mode for solo, or, maybe squad players, if done, should be done without abandoning Ranked.
Though, on PT, we have 1 vs 1 clan Brawl right now.
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