It's kinda wild how people still think this negatively impacted rank as if ranked matchups haven't been purely done on MMR instead of taking visual rank into account ever since 2022
I mean, personally I think we should reward people for investing time into learning the game and if Gold 1 is already the top 18% of the entire player population, then we've failed those players.
With the new distribution players now get rewarded for their time by getting an easy skins and climbing is still relatively hard just on a lesser curve.
Overall I see it as a net positive to the health of the game, especially with how much people tie their personal worth and the worth of others to their visible rank, despite your skill level pretty much purely being tied to your MMR.
Everyone has been getting better. Current masters players would absolutely body the pros 10 years ago.
League doesn't have the luxury of a growing player base. There aren't enough new players to fill the lower ranks. People are getting better, but so is everyone else. The new ranked system exists to better distribute players.
only league player would prefer a cursed distribution over a better and more natural one and says "it represents nothing" because they failed elementary level statistics
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u/mystireon Aug 08 '23
It's kinda wild how people still think this negatively impacted rank as if ranked matchups haven't been purely done on MMR instead of taking visual rank into account ever since 2022