While there are some pretty great pros to this ranking system, I find it, as a whole a bit too liberal with the Killer Rank. While in Killer, I find myself either destroying or being destroyed with very few matches where I actually fight somebody at my skill level.
I still feel that the S1 ranking system was the best. Sure it had its fatal flaws (working your butt off to rank up and losing one match and getting deranked), I feel that the ranking system better gauged the skill level of the opponent you were fighting. If I fought a Killer, I knew I was going to get destroyed. If I got a Button Masher, then I knew that I needed to lighten up and not embarrass them.
With this system though, once you get a Killer, its a mixed bag. Then comes another issue of really good players requalifying so that I get destroyed by low ranking people.
I dunno… I’d like to see a hybrid system of S1 with Killer Rank reserved for the best of the best of the best, and the S2/S3 system that keeps you from getting completely deranked for one loss.
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I’ve only recently got into KI (only once it finally came to PC) and I’ll say that I think the ranking system is rather bizarre. I’m not really sure what the allure of not being able to go down in rank is. When I play “ranked” in multiplayer games I expect that 1) the rank is roughly a gauge of my skill level and my enemies, and 2) that I’ll be matched up with people roughly around my skill level. The current system makes it too easy to go up in rank… so easy that I find myself continually having to re-qualify because I find myself at a rank that is just beyond my actual skill level and since I can’t go down in rank, at some point it’s just not fun (I’m not a pro or hyper-competitive… I’m just a middle-of-the-road player who likes to have fun and have a challenge, but who doesn’t enjoy getting stomped 2 out of every 3 matches).
And the whole requalifying thing on the whole just means I occasionally run into “Bronzes” who are actually really good players. It just kind of doesn’t make sense to me.
mmmm…
Maybe… Create a new Rank!!!
ULTRA KILLER!!
You can only access if you win 50 matches in a row against other Killers!!.. JK
No, to be honest getting bodied by other player makes me understand weakness in my style so I can adjust.
I like the way it is.
We need to be able to rank down from loses. The current system is way to lenient. Yeah it keeps low level players satisfied because they can’t rank down after making progress but that completely defeats the purpose of having a ranking system in the first place.
I like Overwatches current system, it’s similar where you keep your rank regrardless of ranking down except for the highest ranks. Applied to KI you wouldn’t be able to lose your gold and silver rankings, but if you lost too much in Killer you’d get ranked back down to gold.
This is why I really liked S1’s ranking system. To be a Killer, you had to be the best. If I was to rank myself according to S1’s level, I would probably be in Ultra, but I strongly doubt I would have made it to Killer as of yet.
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I completely agree with you. I’m all for a new and better ranking system.
I know right? Nowadays anyone can have killer rank.
Trust me, the ranking system in season 1 was way better and made more sense. Sure it wasn’t perfect either but it was better.