how rampant is cheating in CC

[Amarande]

I just started CC and I have seen 1 player take out an entire team solo. players go from no rank to gold in 1 hour

SAM LB will by design do exactly that if opponents are not aware of the mechanics.

As for the ranking thing, every game with ranking is that to some or other degree. Everyone starts out at the default rank regardless of their actual skill, and in most cases outside of advanced enough esports to actively feature a placement system (such as League) or online versions of traditional card and board games (e.g., Doman Mahjong here in XIV, or most online Chess servers), the starter rank is the very bottom of the ladder.

So if you're actually good and you play enough games in a short period, you should fairly quickly rise to near or close to your proper rating level, that is how rating is intended to work (although with CC it's a little weird because there are the ratchet points that you can't drop below once achieved, while in most games you can potentially fall all the way to the minimum rating on a bad enough streak).

[Kozh]

SAM LB will by design do exactly that if opponents are not aware of the mechanics.

As for the ranking thing, every game with ranking is that to some or other degree. Everyone starts out at the default rank regardless of their actual skill, and in most cases outside of advanced enough esports to actively feature a placement system (such as League) or online versions of traditional card and board games (e.g., Doman Mahjong here in XIV, or most online Chess servers), the starter rank is the very bottom of the ladder.

So if you're actually good and you play enough games in a short period, you should fairly quickly rise to near or close to your proper rating level, that is how rating is intended to work (although with CC it's a little weird because there are the ratchet points that you can't drop below once achieved, while in most games you can potentially fall all the way to the minimum rating on a bad enough streak).

I dunno, going from no rank to gold in an hour is nearly impossible because your team depends on RNG. You may be god at pvp, but if your teammates suck, then you'll lose.

From my experience it took me 2 weeks to reach gold back during season 1. I can buy if it's a day (though I'll still be suspicious).

[LianaThorne]

I dunno, going from no rank to gold in an hour is nearly impossible because your team depends on RNG. You may be god at pvp, but if your teammates suck, then you'll lose.

From my experience it took me 2 weeks to reach gold back during season 1. I can buy if it's a day (though I'll still be suspicious).

This is half true, you can trick the system into queueing you with friends if you all queue at the same time. I've done it several times with my partner. So it's not a stretch of the imagination to see 5 people who all know each other on the same team. Even if you end up on separate teams, your friends on the opposing side can just throw the game and help you rank faster that way.

[Vatom]

This is half true, you can trick the system into queueing you with friends if you all queue at the same time. I've done it several times with my partner. So it's not a stretch of the imagination to see 5 people who all know each other on the same team. Even if you end up on separate teams, your friends on the opposing side can just throw the game and help you rank faster that way.

I see that more often then not and I would consider that cheating if the game's code wasn't so trash