@LukeAlmighty I'm not a huge fan, I'd rather just have balanced matchmaking based on it when it comes to teams. I actually like call of duty's approach where your rank increases the more you play and then teams get balanced based on playtime. If they had a SECRET MMR system that helped balance it further that would be great. More often than not, you get incredibly balanced teams where 1 guy on each team has like 20+ kills and one guy has 20+ deaths and everyone else is somewhere in between.

I think it is good for something like smash though, where it's just 1v1. It does suck to go into the game and just get so throttled by someone that you don't even get any experience, so it's really hard to get better. How am I going to learn to play the game better if I'm getting 4 stocked by a fucking game and watch?

Games definitely need to have unranked modes if they're going for having a ranked system, though. That's for sure. It's just that not EVERY SINGLE GAME needs to have ranked.