I never thought of myself off being in the top 2 or 5 percent… really information!
Duelyst Rank Distribution Chart – Duelyst
i wonder what that chart would look like if it only included the people active on the forums
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It would be more interesting to count players that have… let’s say 20 or so games this month.
Bronze includes everyone who tried the game and left because he didn’t like it.
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Thanks for this, nice to know 
This is honestly quite surprising to me, maybe because I have only played for two seasons (only for 4 days in my first season too lol because of holidays) and don’t have a good grip on the size of the playerbase. But I expected gold to be approximately 30% of the playerbase, silver and bronze together like 60%, diamond 9% and then S-rank like 1%. Something along those lines at least, I thought gold should be easy for most but perhaps a lot of people in silver who just couldn’t make it or don’t play enough/are new.
Actually this sounds like bad news. Hitting silver is really easy, so this makes me think not many people actually play the game, which is sad 
I would like to know how many players are actually active, like the onew that played at least 10 games.
Huh. Is Gold really that hard to get? I end up hitting Rank 10 accidentally each month 
Huh, I didn’t think I was in the top 5%, hitting Diamond doesn’t seem that hard.
Wow, that’s amazing. I’m surprised so few people hit diamond honestly.
How come Emil always double-post? Haha.
Only 1 in 20 players reaches Gold? Wow. Even including try-and-leavers, that’s pretty low. Not that I’m in Gold, or likely to be this month…
It’s like the same when we got the data from Hearthstone’s ladder.
A lot of people stay at the bottom because they just made daily quest and didn’t return in ranked mode. Just want to play for fun and don’t like competition!
I guess people play for gold and that’s it. Just want to improve their card’s collection.
yeah, this statistic is misleading. Because they are including people who download the game, play just a few games, then don’t come back. Need to set minimum games played to 10 or 20 if you want a more useful statistic of the actual player base. Thus, removing those who try and play the game for less than 2 days.
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While I would be interested to see another graph with the rankings for players who’ve played at least 10 games and how that compares, I do find this pretty interesting. I think a lot of players who win a lot fail to recognize that to win you have to make another player lose, which means if your winning a lot, a lot of other players are losing. I also suspect theirs a decent portion of the player base who plays very casually but still does ranked for their dailies, so this could be seen as a sign that the daily system duelyst uses has really brought a lot of casual players into ranked, something I’d consider a positive.
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I know right? Feels weird, after playing HS, that chess skill alone is carrying me so far, without that good a skill in deck-building or good card selection.
Cross-posting from reddit because it’d likely be of interest to people here as well:
Very interesting! 77% of the players in Bronze is a lot, and not very representative of “active players”, so I got the numbers assuming nobody’s in Bronze:
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S-Rank: 1.3%
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Diamond: 6.09%
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Gold: 14.78%
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Silver: 77.83%
That means if you’re in Diamond you’re in the top 7.4% of the playerbase, and if you’re in Gold, you’re in the top 22.17% of the playerbase, of “active” players.
Assuming 400 S-rankers, that’s 30.7k players who play at Silver and above monthly. Assuming 500, it’s 38.3k.
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well, thats actually a lot more players than i thought, still somehow low, but more than i thought.
Something i find important to note is that the game is english only so far, not allowing lot of players to even start.
Yeah, I would love to see this breakdown of active players only. I figure getting to silver, even if you stink, is about persistence bc you cant rank down.
really i always thoughtthe majority was in diamond since i rank diamond everymonth with ziran deck
just started playing a week ago and i hit diamond yesterday… so i quess im doing okay