Intentional De-Ranking - What is YOUR Opinion?

So this is from my view being rank 1 killer and survivor every season with 5500+ hours and playing Solo -SWF-Killer almost every day. The majority of people derank for easier killers. A good example is big streamers who post videos of wrecking killers with a small amount of hours played. Lets go over the excuses that are used...

*Rank doesn't matter in terms of skill - This is provably false just by the videos posted and live streams. You do not get new players as killers at rank 1 that have low hours. For the most part killers at rank 1 dont fall for 360s, flashlight saves, etc...You do get those killers at rank 5-20. There is also still a % of people that cant get rank 1, mainly as killer. You will always get better players on average at rank 1 but you will still have potato's at any rank.

*Red ranks are to sweaty - But the people deranking are still using meta perks, items, SWF etc... and escaping most games because of the skill mismatch. Wouldn't that make the survivor sweaty or is the rule survivors cant be sweaty?

*I derank for fun! - Ok so is it fun for the killer who has 50 hours to play against a team that has 10,000+ combined hours? Lets also be real people that play or stream daily that derank during their off time derank by either DCing or killing themselves screwing over the other 3 survivors. If you think these people spend 5+ hours doing a "nice" derank you are fooling yourself.

*Que times - Not a thing...

So whats the answer? BHVR needs to stand behind their rules and enforce them. I dont blame streamers or anyone else when something like this is allowed. Its up to BHVR to put a stop to it.

Step 1 BAN people that DC or Derank. (Give a warning beforehand to give people a chance to stop)

Step 2 Give rank 2-3 15% more bloodpoints and Rank 1 40% more bloodpoints.

Step 3 Add some special cosmetic for each season.

I have suggested these changes for well over a year now... Lets get the ball rolling.

The_Crusader said:

It's understandable why they do it.

You get boosted up the ranks too fast as killer. Most aren't ready to face 2000+ hour survivors who know every loop like the back of their hand.

Plus it takes too long to grind. As survivor you can put all your points into 1 character, as killer you need to level up every single one to make them playable.

I deranked one month after reset. I had paid for every single DLC character in the game so I wanted to use them, but I sure as hell wasn't going to play a weak killer like Pig or Freddy with unrelenting level 2, surveilance (pre-buff), iron grasp and monstrous shrine against the sweaty tryhard rank 1 survivors. It wouldn't be fun for me at all. Plus I wanted to try out Nurse and Huntress who play very differently to Clown who was my main at the time.

I had a blast. It wasn't about getting easy games, it was about getting enjoyable games. I didn't bring Billy or Clown and go tryhard, I just used weak killers or killers I wasn't very good with and it was less stressful.

Beyond that the game can be stale as hell in red ranks. It's pretty much P3 Claudettes with some combination of....

Sprint Burst/Dead Hard/balanced landing
self-care
decisive strike
adrenaline
urban evasion
borrowed time

That's it. It's soooo boring and tryhard. Always abusing the most broken loops in the game too. It's just sweat, sweat, sweat. I tend to hold back a bit after reset just to get some fun out of the game before boosting up to the tryhard ranks. The meta is stale as hell.

Thank you for your experience now I know I have to get all the dlc since the shrine takes an eternity and is unreliable. At least I know I'll have some fun with the other killers besides legion after I grind as survivor to defend my rank