Is the ranking system broken?

the fix is in · Apr 8, 2014

Galactic Geek: I had similar frustrations when I started playing KI as well. I thought I would never reach rank 5. Now I'm rank 20. The best advice I can give is to basically try to analyze everything you can about your play style and what you need to work
on. watch twitch streams and see how the high ranks handle situations. learn what you character needs to do to counter every situation. LEARN MANUALS. it can be extremely frustrating at first but having it as an option to pull it can make a huge difference.
Even if you only use it once in a match it's going to make you opponent second guess you next combo. Learn what every move for every character looks like. there are only 8 characters so when someone drops a medium autodouble you should be able to break it
no problem. LEARN to combo break shadow attacks. If you can consistently combo break shadow attacks I guarantee you'll go from level 4 - 10 in like a week,

that's about all the advice I have. Good luck and as with everything in life always assume you have something you can learn. If you think you're done learning that's when you're going to get schooled.

Galactic Geek · Nov 1, 2018

Thanks for the advice, fix; you sure do know how to live up to your name because I hit rank 5 for the 1st time ever today. Why aren't you an Xbox Live Community Ambassador yet? ;P

Rolly2891

As you get more pts from playing against higher ranks, you will actually find that your rank up matches come more often against them. Not because it matches you against them purposely just because that's the amount of pts you need to rank up.

The opposite can be said for rank down matches.

Neonistje

Edit = Whoop never mind,forgot to scrol down

Galactic Geek

From my experience (between levels 1-4 that is), it's always been about a difference of 3 wins or losses. In essence, you need 3 straight wins to rank up or 3 straight losses to rank down. Otherwise, your rank remains unchanged.

To be fair, I know how to use the characters and perform their combos (I can get 70% damage easily with Thunder). My biggest weakness is reading my opponent to do the appropriate counter-breaker. I know how to do it, but I'm still adjusting to knowing whether
I should be pressing light, medium, or heavy and often get locked out as a result. Also, my block doesn't always seem to work, even when I press it in time - I particularly hate how you have to press down and back to block low. I'm used to just pressing down
to block low (which is how I wish it would work).

INoTroN

I play rank mode last night and i past the rank 1 to 13 easy.

You are just poor at KI that it dude,

MBA Banemobius

You've been unlucky, there isn't a mechanic that matches you with higher ranked players for rank change matches.

Is the ranking system broken?