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PvP Ladder: Rank Up system [August 2019 Updated]

Duel Links how to get King of Games, PvP ladder, how to rank up fast.
update 20/08/2019

Notable Changes [starts from 27 August 2019]

No More Demotion!

  • Players will no longer be demoted for losing, except Legend 2 and 3. However, the players' rank will still be demoted at the end of the season.

New Rank Added

♦ In order to keep Ranked Duels without demotions, the following ranks will be added. Therefore, players will be demoted by 7 ranks instead of 5 when a new season begins with the addition of new ranks.

  • Bronze Rank 6-7
  • Silver Rank 6-7
  • Gold Rank 6-7
  • Platinum Rank 6-7

Cumulative Rewards Update

  • Players will get Gems every time they win a duel, up until their 50th win.
  • Card Tickets will be given out for every 5th and 10th win.
  • There will be a few changes to rewards such as UR and SR Tickets.

Winning System

A lot of people are confused about how many wins are needed to rank up on the PvP ladder in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links, hopefully this guide will clear some misconceptions up or answer your questions.

To rank up you either need to go +X (where X is a number dependant on your rank; for gold it’s 3, platinum it’s 4 and legend it’s 5) OR you need to have an X-win streak, again where X depends on your rank. (an X-win streak trumps everything, it doesn’t matter how many losses you had before)

What does it mean to go +X? Imagine you just got to Platinum 3,and you go “WWLWWLWW” (with W being a win, and L being a loss) you’ll have ranked up to Platinum 4 because your overall score was +4 wins.

A lot of the misconception comes from the fact that people forget the losses you get when first getting to a new rank will also count (your score can go under zero). For example you just achieved Platinum 3, and you go “LWWLWWLWW” , this will not make you rank up because currently you are at +3 wins.
HOWEVER even if you did get a loss at the start, if you would get a +4 win streak in Platinum, you will be promoted, no matter the losses before the win streak. So at Platinum 3 going “LWWWW” will make you rank up, but “LWWWLWW” wouldn’t make you rank up because you’re only at +3 wins.

The way you’ll get demoted from a rank is by having a 3-Loss streak OR by going -3 (this is the same number for Gold, Platinum, Legend); if you just got to Legend 2 and go “LLWLL” you’ll be demoted because your score just hit -3. But don’t forget you can never be demoted when you are in Gold 1, Platinum 1, Legend1 or KoG…. So once you get to Legend 1 you don’t have to fear dropping back down to Platinum 5.

To rank up from Legend 3 to King of Games you always need a 5-win streak, but you do not need a win streak to get from Gold 5 to Platinum 1 or to get from Platinum 5 to Legend 1.

If you correctly understand how this system works you can know exactly when you’ll start a promotion match (or a demotion match).

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Anonymous
Players will get Gems every time they win a duel, up until their 50th win.
Question: How many gems per win do we get?
<< Anonymous
5 gems Reply
5 gems per win and then ticket every 5 wins. so only around 200 gems
<< Anonymous(5 gems)
Anonymous Reply
surprising that noone is raging over the gem rewards yet
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
They probably still counting whether is the amount of gems now better then before.
<< Anonymous(5 gems)
CC Reply
5 gems until 50th win means only 250 means 5 packs only.
Just to be sure this (5 gems) is different from 5 gems as in cumulative reward?? or it's the same??
Anonymous
+5 to promote, -3 to demote is a NO.

+5, -5 will be fairer.
<< Anonymous(Shield)
Anonymous Reply
Give this guy a medal. Let people buy shield if they want to keep their current rank without getting promoted/demoted.
<< Anonymous(Shield)
Anonymous Reply
konami release shield?? say no more! I will purchase it right away
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Thats just dumb, losses should count for more to make it harder. no sense in just giving out so many free loss passes
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Agree, not only fairer but good for non meta decks too. We want to have fun not grinding chore.
Anonymous
No mire grays
Anonymous
Konami needs to completely get rid of Skill Drops from Ranked Duels in order to restore Casual Duels and prevent Self-Destruction decks from being spammed on the competitive ladder due to no Demotion or this game will die.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Edit: I mean Ban skill drops from PvP because...

1) Ranked Duels will be infested with them since Players can't get demoted

2) Casual Players will eventually feel forced to play Casual Duels since they can't troll or meme in the lower ranks due to no demotion. Casuals can't play Casual Duels if everyone is spamming Self-Destruction decks.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
*1) Ranked Duels will be infested with Self-Destruction Decks since Players can't get demoted.
Anonymous
Don't know where to post this to get an answer so I'll post here.
I had 2 NEOS in my GY (and no HERO monsters other than that); my opponent had multiple NEOS/HERO monsters in his GY. After summoning Brave NEOS, it had 3300 ATK. Enough to surpass his brave NEOS, which had 3200. I expected my monster to have 2800 ATK though. Can anyone explain please?
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Maybe because there is neo space on the field? It increases attack point of neos and the neos fusion monsters by 500 point
Anonymous
Will this end up overloading some of the ranks?
Gem Rewards Issue
I get the new system. We now have more levels per rank in exchange for removing the rank-downs. BUT the gem rewards was unclear; do we get more or less gem rewards? Or is it the same? Only change would be that you could get them quicker.
<< Anonymous(Gem Rewards Issue)
After KOG Reply
Currently after reaching KOG, you get 30 gems after 30 wins. Does this apply in the new system?
<< Anonymous(After KOG)
Anonymous Reply
No, you don't. It's 30 gems every 60 wins.
Gem Rewards
I get the new system. We now have more levels per rank in exchange for removing the rank-downs. BUT the gem rewards was unclear, do we more less gem rewards? Or is it the same? Only change is you get them quicker.
<< Anonymous(Gem Rewards)
Anonymous Reply
Speaking of the rank-downs, pretty sure no one asked to remove them. It wasn´t the top priority people wanted to be revamped in Ranked. Only real issue people complained about was the demotion in Legend, and that´s precisely the Tier demotions are still going to happen. What´s the point of the change?
Anonymous
If we still meet 🔥 deck in Casual Duel even after no more demotion, then we know those players are just a bunch of cowards. They want to farm skill but don't want to help people to rank up
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
I believe some 🔥 deck players will move to Ranked Duel. But not for bot user, they will stay in Casual Duel because Ranked Duel has higher risk for their account to get banned. I personally hope Konami remove Casual Duel from Duel Links because of many bot users who can easily level-up all their chars by doing nothing
Anonymous
I can no longer stay in Gold rank for farming wins and playing fun decks. :((
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
What's wrong in ranking up to legend or platinum?
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
The amount of meta decks you found increases when you reach higher ranks.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
nope in legend up you will find only neos in many form, what so booring day
<< Anonymous
Gravekeeper guy Reply
Obviously just use gravekeepers man.
Anonymous
Instead of demotion, I concern more about cumulative rewards. If you only get 10 gems per win and won't get anymore after your 50th win, it means you will only get 500 gems per month, which is only worth 10 packs. I hope it would be 20 or 30 gems per win, but knowing how Konami deal with things makes me feel hopeless
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
One gem per win, like in the lottery.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
"5 gems per win" actually happened
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Only 5 gems per win????
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
yes. 5 gem per win and every 5th win, you get a ticket instad. lol
Anonymous
It's a shame they don't introduce a system like in KC cup where you get all the rewards up until the rank you start at. This would provide more incentive without giving too much away.

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