Smite S6 ranked road to platinum
Smite at the moment for split one requires every player to do qualifying matches. Designed to put you within the right range. Low number of players play rank, each split is shorter compared to past seasons. Required to do 10 games before getting a placement. After placement long climb up the ladder, designers have increased the amount of points per win. Qualifying matches mixed bag could get players already placed. System caused much frustration for everybody. Design team already said this system is going away next split.
From my experience qualifying matches mixed bag. Split one season 6 record 3 wins and 7 losses. Not a fun experience full of toxic players, couple disconnects with trolls. High level players being the worse by far. Played around 40 games of ranked so far, able to reach platinum 5. Increase in points gained has made the climb easier, last season I would still be gold 1. Longest period of time my goal has always been hit platinum. When first started out I was silver 4, reaching silver 1 hitting gold 1. Played more ranked at this point compared to past seasons.
After much grinding finally hit platinum 5. So now what I guess platinum 3 before 1. Maybe heading towards diamond, who knows what comes next. Meta at the moment is burst, hybrid items are found for every role. Duo lane is aggressive hyper snowball. Middle lane is about burst, jungle about mobility. Solo lane is about aggressive snowball or team focused gods. Pure tank builds are quite weak at the moment. Front line gods feel soft and easy to kill. Making the early game super difficult against certain gods. Conquest meta right now is burst heavy, aggressive snowball focused. Noticed little different climbing from bronze to platinum.
Music has made climbing the ladder more enjoyable. Communication is important for ranked nobody on EU PS4 uses a mic. Forced to use the VGS to communicate with people. Experience on the whole has been rather fun. Part of me wants to go to the next level. Scrimming with teams improving my communication. As a player I generally focus on farming and do better with teamwork minded focus. Found it best to focus on you when playing ranked over your teammates. Follow and listen to calls even if they are terrible. Worst role is ADC just dislike the heavy snowball focused duo lane.
Going to keep on climbing, improving at every stage. Looking forward to split two and no more qualifying.