What do you want to see in the Ranked update arriving in Feburary?
In February, it looks like Ranked is finally getting reworked to make it more competitive, and one of the features confirmed to be added with this update is an Esports tie-in.
I'm personally really excited to see what this update is considering how poorly designed Ranked was in it's first iteration. Who at supercell thought it was a good idea to casualize the one competitive gamemode in the game, and expect it to be successful? At it's core Ranked is a competitive gamemode considering that it follows the same drafting format as Power League in it's later ranks, and of course casuals aren't gonna like that long term gameplay.
Side note, THANK YOU to whoever at supercell decided that the June update should tie in starr park lore to the trophy road. You're the goat.
Anywho, one of the things that I personally want to see in this rework is a removal of the rank gates on every rank minus Masters. The reason why I don't want it gone in Masters is because I feel like it being there adds a relaxing way to test out the meta. If previous ranks were made more difficult/harder to cheese your way through, then more really good players would make their way up to masters, therefore making it easier to test out random brawlers in the meta because you're almost always gonna be facing good players, giving a fair estimate on how good the brawler of choice is.