Stop the smurfs! Ranked matchmaking should be based on your highest ELO, not current - #19 by Davyman3583 - II - Discussion - Age of Empires Forum

Well this actually would make it even worse. Because if you don’t play and everyone else does their elo will get higher due to general massive inflation so relatively speaking you’ll be stronger compared to people with same elo. You could argue that equals out what I mentioned before but there is so many factors and the matchmaking will be quite likely a total mess while top players’ elo will get to 10k sooner or later. You are talking about a very specific phanomen that I wouldnt even call s

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