League of Legends<\/em>\u2019 season 13 split two started on July 19 and Riot Games used this as an opportunity to make a couple of ranked changes\u2014introducing the Emerald rank, reducing promotion series from five games to three, and tweaking matchmaking. By far, the biggest change here is the addition of Emerald rank and League <\/em>player are convinced they actually know the true reason why Riot did it.<\/p>
In a post on League<\/em>\u2019s subreddit from Aug. 8<\/a>, the community concluded that Riot actually added the Emerald rank<\/a> to keep the people engaged and playing. Right now, we\u2019re seeing an increasing number of players who have been hardstuck at the same rank for years bragging how they finally made it to their desired rank.\u00a0<\/p>
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The new rank tried to distribute the League <\/em>playerbase evenly across ranks, especially because more than 60 percent of the c<\/a>ommunity was stuck in Bronze and Silver. But now, you can easily expect to be placed one division above and Silver players are having the times of their lives in Gold, and Gold players are undoubtedly Platinum.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
