ComputerBot2016
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Yesterday evening I did an hour and a half session of tower control, and for the first time in Splatoon 2 I ranked down (A- to B+). This was near the start of the session so I ended up spending the rest of it desperately trying to rank up again. But it made me realise just how awful and generally unfair the ranking system is in this game.
I realised that although your rank is supposed to represent your personal skill level, it’s determined by how well your team plays overall. So even if you play really well and make good progress with the objective or get lots of kills/assists but your teammates are either afk or playing badly, your rank is going down and there’s nothing you can do about it. It also works the other way round, if your on a team with really great players but you play really badly, you’ll gain rank arguably undeservedly, assuming your team wins. So by this logic, rank is pretty much based on the game’s ability to pick teams, which kinda defeats the point of having a ranked system at all.
I feel Nintendo would be wise to implement a better ranking system that takes into account the individual player’s actions more than the outcome of the match.
Maybe these thoughts are just the result of being salty from ranking down and having to work back up for an hour, but I’m curious as to what you guys think about the ranking system.
Also hi, I’m new here. please forgive me if I’ve missed some detail about ranking that is common knowledge
I realised that although your rank is supposed to represent your personal skill level, it’s determined by how well your team plays overall. So even if you play really well and make good progress with the objective or get lots of kills/assists but your teammates are either afk or playing badly, your rank is going down and there’s nothing you can do about it. It also works the other way round, if your on a team with really great players but you play really badly, you’ll gain rank arguably undeservedly, assuming your team wins. So by this logic, rank is pretty much based on the game’s ability to pick teams, which kinda defeats the point of having a ranked system at all.
I feel Nintendo would be wise to implement a better ranking system that takes into account the individual player’s actions more than the outcome of the match.
Maybe these thoughts are just the result of being salty from ranking down and having to work back up for an hour, but I’m curious as to what you guys think about the ranking system.
Also hi, I’m new here. please forgive me if I’ve missed some detail about ranking that is common knowledge