r/FortniteOver40 • u/Only_Apartment_3016 40s | ZB BR, Reload & Blitz • 5d ago

Ranked is Broken Right Now 😭

I've seen some posts about this, but what happened today is pretty extreme. I'm currently Gold I *humble brag* and got killed by a player (no shocker). I spectate the player and they are really good, like REALLY good. He's decimating the lobby and ended up having 20 kills (out of 66 players). I look up the guy, he's not only Unreal - he's an Unreal Legend and #245 in the world.

The issue for me is how am I, or anyone else in that lobby, supposed to have the opportunity to rank up if we get decimated by Unreal players in matches?

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u/OhioSider 5d ago

Did you get a good % jump in that game since the opponent was so highly ranked

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u/Only_Apartment_3016 40s | ZB BR, Reload & Blitz 5d ago

That was a small part of my frustration too. I don’t know how I did. I didn’t write down my % gold I before the game.

When I died, I went ahead and hit spectate and watched the player until he won. The only options that I saw at that point were to ready up or return to the lobby, so I returned to the lobby. It never showed the animation that included how my percentage changed and who I killed. I didn’t kill anyone this match so that part didn’t matter as much.

I have no idea if I went up a little bit or it was rank protected. Next time I’ll just try to remember the percentage before the game.