In a developer’s post, SapMagic acknowledged the vast majority of players who didn’t enjoy positional ranking due to its “grindiness, low satisfaction of off-position games, and teammates not taking off-position games seriously enough.”
In fact, since positional ranking launched, there was a negative shift of 20 to 30 percent in satisfaction for the feature among North American and Korean players. “Ultimately, we didn’t feel like we could make position ranks the experience you deserve by tweaking LP splashing or making changes to promotion series,” SapMagic said.
As a result, Riot will be ending the positional ranks preview for all regions.
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