The top-ranked TFT: Double Up EUW participant is abusing the ranked system to inflate their rank

Teamfight Tactics launched a brand new game mode earlier in Set 6 referred to as Double Up, which lets you workforce up with a good friend in a game of TFT. Double Up additionally got here with a brand new ranked ladder, permitting you to climb together with your accomplice. Improvements to Ranked Double Up have already been made, together with equalizing the ELO good points and losses for you and a good friend, nevertheless it seems extra enhancements are on the best way.

Boosting is a possible concern in Ranked Double Up, exacerbated by the present highest-ranked Double Up participant in EUW. The participant, who goes by the identify Guo Bailing, has been seen pairing up with gamers practically 8,000 ELO factors beneath his stage in a Reddit thread. You may discover in photographs, that whereas most gamers on the leaderboard have the identical rank as their accomplice, Guo Bailing is ranked alone.

While this has introduced the aggressive nature of Double Up into scrutiny, lead developer Mortdog issued a swift response to the problem in the identical Reddit thread, saying the next: “We do care. However RIGHT NOW, there is nothing against the rules about this. It’s just bad design that we chose to deal with for the beta.”

In addition, Mortdog has posted a hyperlink to an outdated dev submit in regards to the state of Double Up, which indicated plans to enhance on the Ranked format so points like boosting are much less prevalent, if not inconceivable.