Huh, I didn’t think I was in the top 5%, hitting Diamond doesn’t seem that hard.
Duelyst Rank Distribution Chart – Duelyst
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 
well that is cool, i make atleast gold almost every month. i have made diamond once.
I dont mean to brag but i dont think this game is as hard as all that. i mean i just started playing like maybe 2 weeks ago and im diamond. love the game tho best designed game ive seen in a while. when i learned it was free on steam i downloaded immediately. 
It took me a few months to get to gold. but I mostly played for fun and less competitively.
I can see the appeal in lower ranks u can try all kinds of funky decks, right now im stuck with my vitruvian deck if i want to have any sort of fun at all all other decks get completely slaughtered as i spent all my spirit on vet 
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I’ve been hitting diamond while playing very casually over the past few months. I agree that it doesn’t feel like much of a challenge to be proud of. I don’t feel like a particularly great player and it feels like I have an easier time in Duelyst compared to my experience in hearthstone. I even hear people downplaying S-rank. I think it has a lot to do with how incomplete most peoples’ collections are, the youth of the game (play is generally unoptimized), and how we don’t have a site like hearthpwn to facilitate the netdecking of millions of decks.
Just weird things happen. During the whole time that everyone was crying about baconator I fought one maybe once. If it was hearthstone I would have run into it 2-3 times before I even knew it was a thing because the instant someone famous plays something on stream or it hits the front page of hearthpwn it’s suddenly everywhere even in casual mode.
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haven’t played heart stone but yeah this game is still small when compared to games like that so its great that not every one is running the same type of deck, i hope that the dev’s will find a way to make sure that this never happens when this game becomes huge and it should by quality alone.
Only way to make it so people don’t just gravitate towards one deck is to make multiple viable strategies on par with each other in some regards.
Because if you’ve a single strong strategy in your game, why would people not choose that strategy?