League of Legends continues to be one of the most popular games in the video game market, not the least of which is because the game not only keeps adding new content, but developer Riot Games continues to make sure things are interesting for players whether it be via adding a new character, a new mode, or, a new level of challenge. And with a new season of the title about to start, Riot Games is making sure everyone is ready for what’s coming rank wise.
Specifically, there’s a new ranked tier that’s about to drop in League of Legends, it’s called Grandmaster, and it’ll be for the true cream of the crop. They detailed its arrival in a post on their page:
Next week we’ll be rolling out Grandmaster (as well as Iron and some in-client design changes) as part of preseason. To kick off Grandmaster and make sure it’s working just right, players above Masters need to drop in order to properly test Grandmaster promotions and demotions.
Now, as for what happens when the patch fully goes live, here’s what you’ll be able to see:
When 8.24 begins:
- All players currently in Master and Challenger will be moved to Master, 0LP.
- Grandmaster and Iron will be added.
- Grandmaster and Challenger will be locked, no one can promote into it.
- After one week, Grandmaster unlocks and you can promote into it.
- After two weeks, Challenger unlocks and you can promote into it.
- This change does not impact underlying MMR at all, so matchmaking will be unaffected.
It may seem a bit complicated, what you need to do in order to test the new rank, but once you do it, you’ll be in a much better place within the game itself, so to speak. It’ll be interesting to see how this changes the dynamic of the title.
