Ranked

Ranked is a competitive gamemode that was added in the November 5, 2021 update. It allows players to play against other players to climb the ladder.

Joining[]

Players can join a ranked match by interacting with the armored NPC as shown on the right. However, there are restrictions set in place to prevent as many exploiters or boosting services as possible for a fair match.

Restrictions[]

In Ranked, there are a few restrictions in place in order to prevent players from gaining an unfair advantage and placing themselves in a higher rank unjustly.

Match Requirements[]

If a team only has 3 or fewer players on it before the start of a match, the match will be cancelled.

Exploiting[]

As a countermeasure to limit exploiters, ranked matches are only accessible by player accounts that meet ONE or more of the following requirements:

Account age of 7 days and having player level 20 or more.
Play a ranked match before the first requirement was implemented.

If an exploiter is caught and banned from a ranked match, there are two scenarios that can happen:

If the exploiter is banned during the match, the game will be nulled, but it will count as a defeat toward both teams' players' match history and game history.
If the exploiter is banned after the match, no RP will be refunded to people who lost the game, and the match will not be cancelled.

Boosting[]

As a countermeasure to limit people from boosting lower ranks, people in certain ranks can only queue with players in their rank requirements. If a player is not within the rank requirements, their party will not be queued.

Players who are unranked and playing in placement games can play against and with Bronze - Gold ranked players.
Gold ranked players can play against and with any players up until and including Platinum ranked players.
Platinum ranked players can play against and with Gold - Diamond ranked players.
Diamond ranked players can play against and with Platinum - Nightmare ranked players.
Emerald ranked players can play against and with Diamond - Nightmare ranked players.
Nightmare ranked players can play against and with Diamond - Nightmare ranked players.

Smurfing[]

Smurfing is intentionally playing in lower ranked matches while you are a higher ranked player (usually done on an alternate account) for any reason. Smurfing by itself is highly frowned upon but completely legal, but boosting by playing with a smurf is punished by resetting the boosted player's rank (the smurf will keep their rank).

Queue Dodging[]

If you leave the game before the match starts, you will get a warning to not to do it again. If you do this enough times, you will start to get timeouts from playing in ranked.

Objective[]

5v5 (After Season 12)[]

Players are set in a 5v5 setting. At the start of each match, teams will have twenty seconds each to ban two kits voted by their respective teammates. A fair wheel of RNG is spun if there is no unanimity on the ban. Each player on both teams then blindly picks a kit without extra delay prior the match start. Once the match begins, their goal is to eliminate the opposing enemy team. There are two teams: Orange and Blue. Items that are available for a limited time are disabled. The match will end and disable RP gain if the match does not meet enough player count before the timer GUI hits 30 seconds.

5v5 (Before Season 13)[]

The old version of 5v5 before the Season 13 overhaul, this gamemode was the same as the season 13 version, except each player picked their kit pre-match and there were no banning kits.

Squads[]

Similar to the Squads gamemode, players in teams of 4 had to break the beds and kill all opposing players to win. The Squads version of ranked has since then been removed in response to community feedback.

Rank Progressing[]

There are 7 ranks to progress: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Emerald and Nightmare, with subdivisions for each rank up to 4 (I.e. Bronze 1, Bronze 2 ). However nightmare ranks only have 1. Players without a rank must play 5 matches to determine their starting rank, which can be as low as Bronze 1 and as high as Gold 4.

After that, they can increase their rank by playing ranked matches. Winning grants 8-25 RP (13 RP only when at Platinum 3 and above), while losing the game will remove 5-25 RP depending on unknown factors. It takes 100 RP to progress to the next subdivision of your rank (I.e. Gold 2 -> Gold 3).

Matchmaking Rating determines how much RP you gain/lose per match, and whether you win or lose makes you gain and lose RP, respectively.

To obtain the final rank, you have to be in the top 200 of players in the whole world and have a 101+ RP in emerald. If you are automatically in the top 200, then by winning a single ranked match that allows your RP in the emerald rank to rise to 101+, you will officially have the final rank.

At the end of each season, starting at Season 4 in the March 25, 2022 update, every player's rank will be reset and they will be granted rewards that correspond to their rank.

Rewards[]

Each ranked season, players will be given a title corresponding to their rank from that season. Players who are currently top 200 on the leaderboard will be given an exclusive emote which will be, removed once they are no longer top 200 on rank leaderboard. As of September 23, 2022, each division will be given a kit skin based on their respective placement they earned throughout the ranked season starting from Gold. Nightmare ranks gain an exclusive emote as well.

Season	Duration	Skin	Emotes	Title
BETA Season	November 5, 2021 - March 25, 2022	Victorious Barbarian	"Victorious BETA" emote	Same title with name of the rank and the season. Example : Bronze (season BETA)
Season 4	March 25, 2022 - June 17, 2022	Victorious Yuzi	None
Season 5	June 17, 2022 - September 30, 2022	Victorious Hannah	None
Season 6	September 30, 2022 - February 17, 2023	Victorious Evelynn	"Nightmare evelynn" emote
Season 7	February 24, 2023 - June 23, 2023	Victorious Davey	"Season & NM Flex" emote "Season 7 NM Think" emote
Season 8	June 30, 2023 - November 17, 2023	Victorious Grim Reaper	None
Season 9	December 1, 2023 - April 5, 2024	Victorious Lyla	"Nightmare Lyla" emote
Season 10	April 19, 2024 - August 16, 2024	Victorious Zeno	None
Season 11	August 16, 2024 - December 13, 2024	Victorious Triton	None
Season 12	December 13, 2024 - April 18, 2025	Victorious Axolotl Amy	None
Season 13	April 18, 2025 - September 5, 2025	Victorious Archer	None

Voting[]

Every season beginning from Ranked Season 9, players may vote on 4 selected kits to gain a Victorious skin after a Ranked season is over. Players can vote through the official BedWars Discord server, whichever kit receives the highest amount of votes will be the Ranked reward for that season. Below are the voting results for each voting season.

Season 9[]

These are the results for Season 9 Ranked. A total of 18,675 votes were casted.

Kit	Votes	% of Votes
Adetunde	3,578	19.1%
Lyla	8,858	44.7%
Whisper	2,972	16%
Freiya	3,772	20.2%

Season 10[]

These are the results for Season 10 Ranked. A total of 10,197 votes were casted.

Kit	Votes	% of Votes
Zeno	5,211	51.1%
Miner	1,658	16.2%
Archer	2,467	24.1%
Melody	861	8.5%

Season 11[]

These are the results for Season 11 Ranked. A total of 12,462 votes were casted.

Kit	Votes	% of Votes
Ember	1,409	12%
Triton	6,315	50.6%
Marina	3,601	28.8%
Vulcan	1,056	8.4%

Season 12[]

These are the results of Season 12. A total of 9,375 votes were casted.

Kit	Votes	% of Votes
Axolotl Amy	4,026	42.9%
Vanessa	825	8.8%
Infernal Shielder	3,494	37.2%
Eldric	1,030	10.9%

Season 13[]

These are the results of Season 13. A total of 6,312 votes were casted.

Kit	Votes	% of Votes
Whisper	1,213	19.2%
Adetunde	1,915	30.3%
Archer	2,611	41.4%
Ember	573	9.1%

History[]

November 5, 2021	Added the Ranked gamemode.
November 9, 2021	Added a leaderboard for Ranked.
March 25, 2022	Ended Ranked BETA Season and reset all ranks.
	Players in the top 200 in the ranked leaderboard will now be eligible for an exclusive emote.
	Fixed an issue where players would sometimes get an RP loss when winning the game.
June 17, 2022	Ended Season 4 Ranked and reset all ranks.
September 30, 2022	Ended Season 5 Ranked and reset all ranks.
	Reduced overall RP gain on Platinum ranks and above.
	RP gain now scales with Ranked mode winstreaks.
October 3, 2022	Reset all ranks.
	Fixed multiple critical errors which allowed unusual RP gain after winning a Ranked match.
	Adjusted loading speed times for higher ranked players.
October 7, 2022	Limited-time items are now disabled in Ranked.
February 24, 2023	Ranked gameplay is now set in a 5v5 setting.
	Diamond Rank has been changed to have only 3 divisions, down from 4.
	Added the Emerald rank.
March 3, 2023	Ended Season 6 Ranked and reset all ranks.
?	Players with higher ranks now also receive lower-tier victorious variants.
June 30, 2023	Ended Season 7 Ranked and reset all ranks.
June 30, 2023	The match will now end if the ranked match is canceled.
December 1, 2023	Ended Season 8 Ranked and reset all ranks.
December 1, 2023	Parties will no longer be queued if one or more players who are not within the rank requirements attempt to queue with higher ranked players.
April 19, 2024	Ended Season 9 Ranked and reset all ranks.
April 19, 2024	Ranked is now in the Squads gamemode again.
August 23, 2024	Ended Season 10 Ranked and reset all ranks.
August 23, 2024	Ranked is now in the 5v5 gamemode again.
August 30, 2024	Enabled Light Step in Ranked.
August 30, 2024	Disabled Excalibur's Bounty match mechanic in Ranked.
December 20, 2024	Ended Season 11 Ranked and reset all ranks.
January 3, 2025	Increased the Ranked queue level requirement from Level 10 to Level 20.
February 25, 2025	Fixed shop taxes in Ranked to properly account for chests
March 7, 2025	Increased the RP gained from winning Ranked matches
March 7, 2025	Fixed Nightmare emote being given to non-nightmare rank players
April 25, 2025	Added kit banning in Ranked.
May 2, 2025	Ended Season 12 Ranked and reset all ranks.
May 2, 2025	Added draft phase during the beginning of Ranked.
June 27, 2025	Added Demotion Shield (capacity of 3 games) to prevent losing RP at 0 RP.
	Buffed RP gains and reduced RP loss helping players to climb the ranks a little more.
	Made other RP adjustments to climb ranks.
June 30, 2025	Fixed issues of demotion shield. Players should now have at least 1 demotion shield.
August 1, 2025	Fixed a bug being able to pick banned kits in ranked.
September 5, 2025	Removed Ranked
September 13, 2025	Readded Ranked
	You can skip ranks if the game system detects that you perform much better than your peers.
	Added Diamond 4 rank.
	Ended Season 13 Ranked and reset all ranks.
	Revamped RP and MMR system.
	Adjusted desert pot rewards in Ranked.
	You can see other players ranks in draft mode screen.
	Dodo birds are no longer available in Ranked.
September 26, 2025	Fixed Season 13 Ranked Rewards not giving the rewards to Nightmare rank players.
October 10, 2025	Nightmare players reduced 60% of RP.
	Emerald Rank has been changed to have 4 divisions.
	RP change now scales based on how far your rank is from your hidden skill rating.
	Max RP change range varies by rank.
	Excess RP above Nightmare now increases RP loss.
	Emerald players queue with teammates up to 8 divisions.
	Players only have a capacity of 2 demotion shields per block.

Trivia[]

If players are eligible for Ranked and didn't unlock their rank during a season, the game will recognize their rank as Bronze.
Players are able to gain Gold+ rank from winning 1 ranked match while winning 3 matches could put players as low as Silver.
- This is confirmed on MiniBloxia's video.
Ranked Season 6 is the longest ranked season, lasting for 127 days.
Getting second place in ranked squads awarded you at least 1 RP as long as you survived at least 10 minutes.
The kit banning and drafting system prior to the beginning of the match was suggested by RealYoNico.
Gold Players have reported queuing more Platinum Ranked Players than actual Gold Players. Most likely caused by the MMR they have.