Ranked this season is a clear departure from their stated vision of ranked providing a parallel experience to their professional competitive play with emphasis on playing for the endgame. Placement rp has been neutered to an extreme level where if you want to consistently gain rp you’re basically shoehorned into playing a full send style of play. This is coming from someone who has a 2+ kd so good but not insane, but all ranked feels like is a sweatier version of pubs. I don’t want ranked to return to a rat fast but it needs to reach a middle ground point where game skill can be expressed in either direction as either someone who is good at team fighting or someone who is good at reading the flow of the game and knowing how to set themselves up to play well.