

This is because the competitive systems we have today are in highly mature states, which basically means the “big problems,” have equally "big solutions". In 2022, we're being extra deliberate in our investments for Ranked. Overall, we're extremely happy with how 2021 is leaving off, and we're confident that 2022 will be even better!

Here are some highlights from Season 2021: You can read more about these in our 2021 Competitive Gameplay Mid-year Analysis. Informed by the data, we focused on tweaking matchmaking formulas, cleaning up our backend systems, and creating fairer matches. These were pretty huge adjustments, so we intentionally let the dust settle as we actively monitored the system. Heading into 2021, we made a bunch of changes to Ranked, like improving placements for new accounts, softening season resets, and removing division promos, just to name a few. I’m going to focus on our individual competitive queue-specifically, Ranked Solo-but many of these learnings apply to all of our other MOBA queues as well. Let’s take a look at how Ranked 2021 went and where Season Start 2022 is headed as we continue to make League the best competitive PvP experience in the world. Season 2021 is reaching its end, Worlds is in the air, and Preseason 2022 is on the horizon. Welcome back! Again, I’m Cody “Riot Codebear” Germain, Product Lead for Competitive Gameplay on League of Legends.
