Multi Rocket League Ranks Explained: How The System Works

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The world of Rocket League ranks is a complicated beast. Let's take a look at how the ranking system works in Rocket League, and answer every question you could possibly have.
Rocket League is all about complicated car-football fun. Ranked play, and ranks in general, are extremely important in Psyonix's game. Rocket League ranks not only relate to things like MMR and your hours played, but are distributed in a complex and interesting way that makes your journey from pleb to Super Sonic Legend a lot more interesting than you would otherwise expect.
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All of this being said, we're going to take you through everything there is to know about Rocket League ranks.

Rocket League Ranks Explained
Rocket League ranks are earned as you climb up the overall leaderboards. They are not to be mistaken with the ranked rewards awarded by interacting with the various seasonal Rocket Passes that are released in Rocket League, though they are relevant. In reality, your Rocket League rank is more of a placement within a notoriety system established through your performance in matches and your general skill-level when playing ranked matches.
The Rocket League ranks system relates to gameplay made in the game's ranked/competitive mode. In this mode, players progress their way through the ranks after completing a placement round of ten matches that will place them in a starting rank. There are 23 different ranks, with Supersonic Legend being the highest and Unranked being the lowest. You will remain in the latter until you complete the placement rounds, and then you will work your way up and down the overall leaderboard (defined by your rank tier) as you play additional matches.
Matches are played against players who are of a similar standing to you, with a combination of MMR and general ranked progression aiding you in your progress. If you lose a few rounds, your Rocket League rank may begin to drop, likewise if you win a few, it will begin to rise. As you work your way up and down, your rank will be determined by how many wins you get, but also the players that you come up against, whom are weighted differently depending on their Rocket League rank.

All Rocket League Ranks From Best to Worst
There are nine different ranks in Rocket League, each of which have three divisions (except for Unranked and Supersonic Legend). In order from best-to-worst, they are the following:

Best-Worst Ranking Rank Division
1Supersonic Legend N/A
2Grand Champion III
3Grand Champion II
4Grand Champion I
5Champion III
6Champion II
7Champion I
8Diamond III
9Diamond II
10Diamond I
11Platinum III
12Platinum II
13Platinum I
14 Gold III
15 Gold II
16 Gold I
17 Silver III
18 Silver II
19 Silver I
20 Bronze III
21 Bronze II
22 Bronze I
23 Unranked N/A

The average rank in Rocket League is somewhere between Gold II and Champion I, but this does not take into account all the unranked players that significantly skew the player base. It is very rare to find a player who is a Supersonic Legend, but enough for us to include that in calculations. Keeping all this in mind, we would determine that the average rank in Rocket League is Platinum III.
The highest rank in Rocket League is Supersonic Legend, which only accounts for a teeny tiny amount of overall ranked players. To place here, you need to have exceptional talent at Rocket League, and be a super devoted player and fan. Rocket League pros are often not even ranked this high as they do not necessarily focus on ranking up, with players like Stake even labeling Diamond players as "Toxic". If you are a Supersonic Legend player, well done!
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Rocket League Rank Divisions & Disparity
Rank divisions and disparity in Rocket League are quite important, as they are a representation of the player base at any time. A player base that is more engaged will have a distribution skewed towards the higher levels, and a less engaged audience will have the opposite, for example. The disparity is important for defining the divisions themselves. Thus, here are the answers to some frequently asked questions on the topic...
Rank Distribution is almost identical in all the different game modes in Rocket League. The main difference, though, is that these extra modes are not competitive game modes in Rocket League. If you have played ten games of 2v2 Hoops, 3v3 Dropshot, 3v3 Snow Day or 3v3 Rumble you will, however, rank.
 
Sometimes when i win in a game mode, e.g rumble ( because it happens on rumble ) i doesn’t count as a win towards my season reward level. The only thing that changes is my division. Do you know why?
 
So because there are so many people playing the game. Why do they still play? Because the best chance of being a high rank is playing all the time, and I swear you can't do anything but play. Since it's so competitive is there a chance no one can be the best player in the game?
 
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