We will share with you a part of the news about League of Legends changes to Ranked in 2023 from here.
The rewards track wasn’t doing its job of making players feel rewarded for their time spent in Ranked—not to mention it also wasn’t motivating players who don’t play a lot of Ranked and therefore missed out on the rewards completely. So Riot are increasing the number of rewards and placing more earlier on the track. At the same time, they reduced the number of games required to reach each of the existing rewards.
Riot are also simplifying how split points are earned. Previously, they attempted to reward players for queueing as fill or compensate them for being autofilled. But considering the reward track wasn’t very motivating to begin with, they didn’t see this affecting role selection at all. Additionally, because certain roles are less likely to be autofilled, players who main those roles wouldn’t be able to earn as many split points. With their new update, you’ll simply get more points for a win, and slightly fewer for a loss.
While looking at all of LoL ranked rewards, they also took another look at the Victorious Skin. The model for the Victorious Skin hasn’t changed since 2011 when Victorious Jarvan was given out. Since then, Riot always rewarded players who end the season at Gold or above. However, this has led to a few problems.
First, players on the skill threshold between Gold and Silver will often stop playing once they hit Gold. They definitely don’t want that to happen, especially if it’s early in the season! Second, high-skill players can earn the skin by playing a relatively small number of games, just enough to maintain their rank. What about all of the Silver and below players who are playing hundreds of games a year, actively trying to learn and improve? Fundamentally, Riot asked themselves what balance they wanted to strike between rewarding skill and rewarding your time playing ranked.
Of course, they still want to reward players for climbing higher and higher, so Gold players and above will still earn the skins and chromas that will be distributed at the end of the split right after completing placements. But now, players below them will have a chance to earn the skins as well—if they put in the time. For these players to earn it, they’ll have to play a much larger number of games. On top of that, as soon as a Silver player hits Gold, they’ll unlock the skin, even if they drop back down to Silver. So your best shot to earn it is still to improve and keep climbing!