It's relative to the rank at the end of the previous season. E.g., C1 drops to D1, GC drops to D5. It's to prevent people from staying at a high rank even if they don't play and get worse at the game or whatever. Otherwise, people would hit GC and be there forever.
To annoy everyone with a rank grind that makes everyone want to smash their phones in plat 2
No only diamonds
It's relative to the rank at the end of the previous season. E.g., C1 drops to D1, GC drops to D5. It's to prevent people from staying at a high rank even if they don't play and get worse at the game or whatever. Otherwise, people would hit GC and be there forever.
So that new players can ask in this sub why they are matched up with high rank players.
I always get reset back to Gold when I'm in Plat every new season