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Riot Games has declared victory over the infamous League of Legends<\/em> rank inflation\u00a0 issues this week. The development team has suggested things have been \u201chit down a good amount\u201d and League <\/em>players are already reporting their ranks sliding closer to their expected skill levels.<\/p>

One of Riot\u2019s biggest goals this League<\/a> <\/em>season has been to wrangle wide-swinging ranks under control, with leading balance boss Matt \u201cPhroxzon\u201d Leung-Harrison admitting as much<\/a> as the 2024 got underway in January.<\/p>

\"Samira
Teams should be more balanced across League <\/em>ranked now. Image via Riot Games<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Six months later, things seem resolved: Leung-Harrison told happy League <\/em>players the developers on June 20 that he believes most players\u2019 visual ranks will now appear closer to their genuine skills<\/a> after Patch 14.13 goes live<\/a>. This, in turn, should go a long way to \u201chelping make games feel more fair\u201d across competitive queues and balance out how one-sided lobbies could end up being if talented one or two players were inaccurately placed.<\/p>

What this (should) mean is anyone who has been struggling in the depths of a higher tier (e.g. the bottom of Platinum) should now be kept around a lower rank (e.g. Gold).<\/p>

The ranked inflation issue has remained a huge talking point in the League <\/em>community<\/a> for some seasons now. New threads on Reddit<\/a> and viral posts on X (formerly Twitter)<\/a> often popped up as frequently as a few times a week<\/a>.<\/p>

Things took a particularly big nosedive\u2060\u2014at least in the eyes of League <\/em>players\u2060<\/a>\u2014after Season 14\u2019s major rankings rework<\/a>. Hot off the back of adding Emerald as a rank<\/a> in 2023, the League <\/em>devs flattened ranked seeding in an attempt to \u201cpush players into their correct ranks.\u201d While there was some success, some players reported drastic LP gains and losses that kept them swinging through tiers too quickly.<\/p>

\"Two
League’s ranks are becoming flatter and flatter. Image via Riot Games<\/figcaption><\/figure>

As it stands today, League<\/em>\u2019s rank spread is still quite level<\/a>. According to the latest reports, around 80 percent of the competitive ladder sit across Bronze through to Platinum<\/a>, with each rank boasting roughly a fourth of that major group. Just under seven percent of League <\/em>players are deemed Iron level, while four percent are playing in Diamond lobbies and a hair under 0.5 percent are ranked Master to Challenger. These bounce around slightly on any given day or week of play.<\/p>

This isn\u2019t the first time Riot has twiddled with ranked numbers in 2024 either; the team also made several changes in Patch 14.8<\/a> to \u201crank players correctly.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You\u2019re a lot closer to the Bronze you deserve 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