Honestly, this is just a small quality life thing I would want to see in Pokémon Showdown. Right now, Pokémon Showdown uses a ladder system (which is great, sadly my skill limits me to the 1500-1650 range), but today I would like to suggest a small add on to this, ranks. These would be little icons that appear near your name/avatar (haven’t decided yet) in-game depending on what ladder rank you have in the metagame you're playing. Also, I think this will help balance out games because now you can only play against others in your rank, which will hopefully prevent huge advantages towards another player. I say this particularly because I was watching PhoenixMaster1 (around 1800 at the time) destroy someone who was a mere 1500, which was extremely unfair. Now, for an example of the rank Elo requirements, I’m going to be using some ranks that I thought of based on Pokémon trainer classes.
Ranks:
1000-1099: Youngster
1100-1199: Trainer
1200-1299: Grunt
1300-1399: Admin
1400-1499: Ace Trainer
1500-1599: Gym Leader
1600-1699: Elite Four
1700+: Champion
Finally, if this were added in, I think it would be cool to have each rank symbol be 1 of the Kanto Gym Badges (going in order of how they are earned in-game with Blue/Giovanni’s Badge being the “Champion” rank).
What do you guys think of this? Thanks for reading my post, have an amazing day!
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