How the tier lists work
Every tier list on RankedMeta is voted by the community — not computed from win-rate scrapes, not decided by one expert. Here is exactly how a vote becomes a tier.
1 · One tap, one vote
Tap S, A, B or C on any entry. That tap is the vote — no account, no confirmation. You get one live vote per entry per board; tapping a different tier changes it, never duplicates it.
2 · Recent votes count more
Votes decay over time (a rolling half-life). The board tracks what players think NOW — a vote from six weeks ago barely moves the needle. On a new patch the ballot resets and the meta re-forms.
3 · Cold-start protection
A single early vote can’t put anything in S-tier. Scores shrink toward the board average until enough votes accumulate, and entries under the minimum vote threshold sit in a "needs votes" tray instead of pretending to be ranked.
4 · Tiers come from the curve
S/A/B/C are assigned by relative standing (roughly top 15% / next 25% / next 35% / bottom 25%), so the board always spreads across all four tiers instead of collapsing into all-S.
5 · Honest states
New boards show a clearly-labeled provisional ordering until the community list qualifies. After big patches, stale entries are re-rated before they’re certified. When the community is genuinely split, we show the split — not a fake average.
6 · Anti-abuse, quietly
One vote per person is enforced with a mix of identity, rate limits and statistical weighting. Vote floods that look like a raid get quarantined; honest disagreement never does.
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