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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
Will this end up overloading some of the ranks?
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
From Legend 3 down to 1. Okay, this always happen:
1. When I'm about to win, connection losts magically.
2. When I have a godly hand, connection losts instantly.
3. It never happened when I am about to lose my opponent lost his connection, never.
4.When I drastically bricked, the connection is very fine like you could build a castle with lollis because of how wonderful it is.
5. The connection is a troll.

I'm done for this month. No KOG cos I'm tired.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
get new internet
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
i feel ya man same thing happens with me
<< Anonymous
RR Reply
lol sad but true. Ironically when I lose, sometimes in long duels my opponent shows bad connection but duel never ends. But not the other way around.
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.
Anonymous
Full deck troll in legend.
Anonymous
in legendary 1 will be full of deck troll.
Anonymous
So, even the 🔥tiest decks can reach Legend now. They just need to try it again and again and again and they will eventually win a few duels in a row. Not sure what to think about this change...
Anonymous
No demotion = no more having fun in Gold Rank with meme or troll deck, B!TCHES xD
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
all troll decks will gather at legend 1
Anonymous
Is there a cap for -X? Otherwise it would be awful during a -20 loosing streak.
<< Anonymous(Not Mad Kid Anymore)
Anonymous Reply
Thanks for the reply. I am interested in the following case: let's say I am in Legend 1, have lost 20 games (X=-20)in a row and can never achieve a 5 games winning streak. Does that mean, that I have to increase X by 25 to reach Legend 1?
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
No, you just need to win 5x in a row I think.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
And losing 20games in a row from legend 1 will land you on plat 1
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
I know that's just an example, but.....must be one hell of a terribly bad luck to lose 20 times in a row.
Anonymous
I'm f2p and hit kog all the time. Just need to know how to spend them gems
<< Anonymous
Powler Reply
Trank you!!
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Wowwww
Anonymous
I’m bronze 3 and I lost 10 odd times in a row and I have two wins or something like that so would I still rank up if I get two more wins?
Anonymous
The Legend 5 -> KoG winstreak is the most 🔥ed 🔥. If people in Legend 5 are roughly on your power level (which they are, since everybody is copypasting youtuber decks anyway), you have a 3.125% chance to actually get the promotion.

Not about skill, not about intelligence - it's whether in one out of those 5 you have some troll 🔥 cunt who pulls a perfect hand on it's OTK toon world deck or Yubel or whatever.

And you KNOW he pricks 5 times out of 6, but exactly this one time he pulls a perfect hand, and back you go to 0 wins.

The one reason i never go past Platinum anymore. I reached KoG once, with Sylvans, and even then it took 3 🔥ing days of multiple hours of playing, simply because everybody is playing the exact same 🔥.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Git gud scrub
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
I agree with you I just want to hit KOG just one time and I'll be happy I'll never attempt this again. I dont really care about rank I just want the KOG icon.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Otk and ftk are the 🔥 of this game -_-
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
There has plenty of OTK decks that have broken the meta, but I don’t think Duel Links has had any real degenerate FTK decks as of yet

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