Ranked Mode

Ranked Mode is a gamemode in Predecessor, played on Sanctuary.

Requirements

• Player account level must be 20 or higher.
• Player account must have unlocked at least 20 heroes, not including free rotation.
• Player account must be in good standing and not subject to any ongoing matchmaking bans.
• Additionally, when playing with friends, the player can only queue up with one, two, or four players that are three subranks above or below them. Bronze, Silver or Gold rank players can queue with anyone in the afformentioned ranks. Diamond and Paragon can only Solo or Duo queue.

Draft

Standard draft rules apply.

• 5 versus 5 players.
• Each player selects their role at the start of the drafting phase, between Offlane, Jungle, Midlane, Carry, Support or Fill. If several players chose the same role, only one random player will be assigned the role while others will be assigned a random unassigned role.
• Each Team can then vote to ban one hero, determined by the amount of votes each hero receives. If two or more heroes received an equal amount of votes, the banned hero is decided at random. Both teams can ban the same hero.
• Each player takes turns picking their hero, in a random predetermined order. First a single Dawn player picks their hero, then two Dusk players pick, then two Dawn players, two Dusk players, two Dawn players and finally one Dusk player.
• Players are not allowed to pick the same hero more than once per team. Hero mirror picks are not allowed.
• Each team can see the enemy Team's hero picks.

Gameplay

Standard Predecessor rules apply. See Gameplay and Sanctuary

Ranks

Victory Points (VP) is earned as the player wins more matches in Ranked Mode. Losing matches will result in also losing VP. Accumulating enough VP will allow the player to rank up. Each Rank requires 100 VP, and after reaching 100 VP in the last division of each rank (Bronze 1, Silver 1 etc) the player needs to win one more game in order to promote to the next rank.

• Bronze 3-1
• Silver 3-1
• Gold 3-1
• Platinum 3-1
• Diamond 3-1
• Paragon

Rewards

At the end of each Ranked Mode season, the player will be rewarded based on the highest rank they achieved.

These rewards will be given out after a season has finished and will include all kinds of exclusive items such as profile icons and banners, so look out for specific information for each season.

The top 500 ranked players are listed on a leaderboard in-game.

Resets

After each split, the players rank will be reset by 5 divisions based on the current rank at the end of the season split.