well the ranked system is based on winning and losing and i think theres a certain unique charm to picking and choosing your fights based on the odds you have of winning because of the way that the ranked system works it would be really stupid for the rank 1 and rank 2 players to fight eachother instead it turns into like a parallel rivalry where you aren't necessarily trying to beat the other player in a single match.... maybe this could be fixed by hosting a tournament at the end of the top 10 players to see who of them would win overall and have a separate prize pool for it
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the battle between the top ranks mid season are not decided in fights against each other but rather decided by a multitude of different fights against others and i think its more interesting this way

if you're really good you can just beat everyone and get a good rank but it takes a little bit of strategy to get rank 1 and thats something that ive never seen before in this game its very refreshing to me at least