Rating and bands
Your rating shows how good you are. It goes up when you win and down when you lose. Your band is the name for your rating, like Magma II. Your Level is different: it shows how much you have played, and it only goes up.
When ratings start
Section titled “When ratings start”Ratings start for everyone at the start of the next season (the team running the alpha may start them sooner). Until then, the game uses rank as it does now: see How scoring works.
When ratings start, everyone begins on the same rating, 1000. Your old rank is kept, but it stops changing.
What counts
Section titled “What counts”- Every Clash that is not practice: 1v1 and 2v2.
- Every ranked Siege.
These never change your rating: practice games with bots, and casual Sieges. A result you say is wrong is not changed back either. The team looks at it instead.
How much it moves
Section titled “How much it moves”The game uses the Elo method, which chess uses too.
- Beat a stronger player and you gain a lot. Beat a weaker one and you gain a little.
- Lose to a stronger player and you lose a little. Lose to a weaker one and you lose more.
- A draw counts as half a win. Against an equal player, a draw changes nothing.
- Teams in a 2v2 Clash and in team Sieges are compared by the average rating of each side.
- Your first 10 rated games move twice as much, so you reach your real rating quickly.
- Your rating never drops below 600.
- A Siege counts for more than a Clash, because it is a longer battle.
For example, two players on the same rating play a Clash. The winner gains 8 and the loser drops 8 (16 each way in their first 10 games). The exact numbers are on The numbers.
If you leave a ranked Siege before it ends, the game plays on for you, and your rating still moves with your side.
| Band | I | II | III |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frost | below 700 | 700 | 800 |
| Ember | 900 | 967 | 1034 |
| Magma | 1100 | 1167 | 1234 |
| Obsidian | 1300 | 1367 | 1434 |
| Core | 1500 | 1600 | 1700 |
Each band has three steps, I, II and III. III is the top step of a band. After a game the app shows how far you are from the next step: “+14 rating · 6 to Magma III”.
Each new season
Section titled “Each new season”At the start of every season after the first, everyone’s rating moves a quarter of the way back towards 1000. A player on 1200 starts the season on 1150, and a player on 800 on 850. Everyone gets a fresh start, but good players stay near the top. Your Level and XP never reset.
Where you see it
Section titled “Where you see it”- The results screen after every rated game.
- Armoury: your band, rating and Level, your recent games and the leaderboard.
- Play: your band on the Clash and Siege cards.