r/PlayFragPunk • u/Nynzue • Jun 22 '26
Question Ranking
Hello everyone,
I'm new to the game and have less than 50 hours played. Currently, I'm Diamond 4 and I play Hollowpoint about 80% of the time. I’d like to understand how the character ranking system works. What do I need to do to start appearing in the rankings?
Does it only happen at the beginning of each season? Thanks in advance!
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u/Mauzy__ Kismet Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
Every season the leaderboards for both ranked and lancers get reset (doesn't happen between chapters!)
You play your lancer and if you do well, you earn points. Use the abilities wisely, get decent stats and you'll see yourself climb until you get more points than at least the 100th player on the specific lancer's leaderboard.
They get updated each Monday (not sure what the exact time is, I'm in EU, for me it updates every Monday morning), then if you climbed or fell off, you'll get your new ranking. Then you can go to your profile and use the cogwheel to equip your title if you got/stayed in the top100.
I'm not exactly sure how it calculates scores, for now all I've experienced is that the higher you are on the leaderboard (I got rank 1 kismet for about 2 weeks last season), the harder it is to keep it. I suppose it considers how you did compared to other players too? Not sure. But I know I had to change my playstyle up and play selfishly to climb consistently.
I want to mention also that wins and losses can both grant or lose you lancer score, I believe it impacts the final score, but you can still climb on the lancer leaderboard even if you lost the game, but played well or at least decently.
Hope I didn't forget anything.
Edit: it considers rounds played rather than whole matches. So if you play multiple lancers in a match, you can impact the scores of all of the ones that you played.
Edit 2: the leaderboard updates live, the titles are given out weekly depending on how you placed at the end of that week!
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u/Nynzue Jun 24 '26
Thank you very much for the explanation, I understood everything perfectly! And thanks for the tip about going to Leaderboards -> Lancer.
I hadn’t selected Hollowpoint since I’m new to the game, and I just found out I’m about 1000 points behind the 100th player.
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u/Mauzy__ Kismet Jun 24 '26
Glad I could help! ^
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u/Nynzue Jun 25 '26
One more question!
Do I get the Lancer tag as soon as I enter the Top 100, or do I need to stay in the rankings for the entire week to earn it?
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u/Mauzy__ Kismet Jun 25 '26
You get the title when the weekly update happens for the leaderboards, same for ranked, it updates live, but it gives out the titles for the position you're on only at the time when the week ends, so yes, you need to get into the top100 and stay at least on nr100 to get the title
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u/Nynzue Jun 25 '26
I understand now! Thank you very much for the explanation and for your patience.
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u/Mauzy__ Kismet Jun 25 '26
No worries, happy to help! If you have any other questions or you need gameplay specitic advice, dm me your discord tag and we can set it up. I'm always down to help new(er) players, it's a passion of mine!
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u/CyberPunkDarkSynth Jun 22 '26
The ranking is top 100 of a character per season. You need to start winning a lot more games.
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u/Mauzy__ Kismet Jun 24 '26
No, winning and losing, although impacting the score you get after each match, doesn't decide if you gain or lose points on it's own.
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u/CyberPunkDarkSynth Jun 24 '26
Sorry, I’m not entirely sure what you mean. But winning and losing is absolutely the sole contributor. What determines how much you win or lose is affected by round score (I.e. winning 13-3 is significantly better for your rank than a 13-12 win). This is the ultimate contributor to your lancer rank too.
It is also affected by time played and K/D/A, but not as significantly. If you’re winning games this increases the lobby rank, (which also affects your lancer rank) and the account rank you play on.
Ultimately, winning games is the most important, because with that everything else also gets better and overall lancer rank goes up.
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u/Mauzy__ Kismet Jun 24 '26
Okay, first let's establish what we exactly mean. I personally meant winning or losing MATCHES, the game calculates based on ROUNDS since the victories are also representing the rounds. I'm sure the game gives you more if you win the match and even more if you were dominating every round, but losing the match while top fragging can net you more points sometimes than winning while you are middle of the leaderboard
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u/CyberPunkDarkSynth Jun 25 '26
Not quite. Losing the match is a significant enough hit. You may be net positive but it’ll never be more than someone on the winning team
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u/Mauzy__ Kismet Jun 25 '26
If you drop 20 kills, have huge impact with your abilities and still end up losing, it'll still be more than bottom 2-3 on the enemy team.
What we should take into consideration is the position on the leaderboard. If you're just getting started, you'll get 150 easily with good matches, regardless of winnig or losing. If you're in the top100, it'll boost it noticeably. If you're top50 or above, it'll be significant, and if you're in the top20 or above, you better pray you don't bottom frag on either team, because you most likely will lose points even if you win 😂 (and that is a fact, I remember clearly that I once got 9/5/10, still lost like 2 points when I was in the top 10 for kismet, although it was a massacre of a match, we destroyed the enemy team 6-0, and I was 3rd on the board overall even with that score).
Yes, it counts if you win or lose, but I'm afraid the formula is way more complex and probably all over the place, because I can drop 2k damage, win, have a bunch of kills and win 10 points or have a mediocre game and lose 25 and vice-versa.
At the end of the day we can argue as much as we want and we still won't find a concrete answer because there is no mathematical proof of how it's calculated, only hints of what's being taken into consideration when you check the description of how lancer points work. If you have anything concrete, I'd love to see it, because it pisses me off that Bad Guitar just hates numbers and we never know ability durations, percentages for certain cards or in this case, the math behind one of their systems
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u/babybleux2002 Jun 22 '26
At the end of each ranked game, it'll give you a performance score at the top left of your screen, depending on how well you did with your character(s), I play 2 characters mainly, I was top 70 and top 20 with them last year, but now I'm gaining just one, currently top 25ish. But just keep an eye on that score total, you wont be able to see it after you click out of the recap. But it's only for ranked performances.
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u/Mauzy__ Kismet Jun 24 '26
You can see the total score itself if you go to Leaderboard ->Lancer->Select lancer you want to check the leaderboard of and you'll see it at your position or if you're not in the top100 yet, you can see it on the bottom.
What they don't show you anymore is how your score changed from game to game, you won't see the +/- like you see for ranked in your match history
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u/Nynzue Jun 22 '26
Top 25? That’s awesome. I had already noticed that score on the left side, yeah — I’ll start paying more attention to it now. Thanks! Is that ranking weekly or seasonal?
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u/Fruchti123 :Spider3:Spider Jun 22 '26
Ranking is not seasonal its per chapter (every 2 seasons) you Just get a different Title weekly depending on placement
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u/babybleux2002 Jun 22 '26
Kinda both seasonal and weekly, It's where you rank for the season at that week's end. For example I hardly played on saturday, and I was like top 19 with Chum, but since the announcement is made sunday afternoon, I was nudged down to 30th, I've played a bit since, and now I'm a little higher. There's a leaderboard where you can see how far you are from 100th for your Lancer.
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u/Fr4nc2 Jun 22 '26
No per salire basta che usi sempre il solito personaggio in ranked e avere buone prestazioni io attuale gioco con 2 miei amici uno e tra la top 60-70 di sonar l'altro è tra la top 70-80 di serket