Different Rank for Each Character#119

I loved how it was in Rivals 1 and Smash Ultimate. I wanna learn all the characters by playing them in ranked and increasing my skill with each one. But my Wrastor sucks and if I hop on ranked with him I’ll get destroyed.

Yeah this really disincentivies me from picking up secondaries. I wanna get better with other characters, even if I don’t intend to get them on par with the main

I assume the current ranked system is designed to accommodate counterpicking like in slippi, but I would much prefer having a separate rank for each character instead.

I think the perfect solution would be having independent ranks for each character, but bumping up your lower ranked characters so you are prevented from noobstomping.

For example, let’s say I become master with loxodont, then every other character gets bumped to gold or plat instantaneously

I absolutely agree. The argument against this that players at low ranks will be stuck in smurf city, but they could still have character based ranking and avoid this by changing a character’s starting point from bronze to new placement instead.

Just do it how street fighter 6 has it. If you have any character at diamond in that game your placement matches start about gold. You see you “new challenger” anywhere from iron to platinum in that game.

i just don’t think it’s a very good idea to prevent people from counterpicking in a set like that. sometimes matchups are just really, really bad in a game with such volatile characters, so it’d be best to let people utilize more of their skills.

honestly, I dont even really get the argument that its for counterpicking. Cause in rivals 1, if you pick your highest ranked character, you can switch to a lower ranked character mid set. You’re just not allowed to pick a lower ranked character first and THEN pick your higher ranked character.

I think what guille said here is probably more accurate, that they just want to prevent as little noob stomping as possible, but with the current ranked system has placement matches you need to do anyway. So you could “easily” (idk if its easy lmao) just have placement matches for each character to start with.

ultimately its a matter of philosophy, rank the player as a whole or each character. Idk! But I agree with op. i just like playing around my level, and my secondaries and tertiaries are just not anywhere close to my main

just bring back the original ranked system from 1 pretty please with a cherry on top

If each character had their own score I could grind ranked on different characters.

Instead I have to go and click “Casual” where most players quit after 1 match.

The RoA1 system already sounds better than the current one, but if it were character locked we’d spend far less time on menus too

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