Ranked explained: rating, placements, tiers, and duo and trio queues

Conqora guide · updated 2026-10-14

Ranked is Conqora's competitive mode: smaller maps, no nations, a skill rating that moves with every result, and a leaderboard. Three queues exist, and each has its own rating.

The queues

Duo and trio are played with a party: open Ranked, create a party, and invite friends with the invite link or the party code. Everyone in the party queues together and plays on the same side.

Placement matches

Your first five matches in a queue are placements: you have a rating, but the game shows "Placement 2/5" instead of a tier until they are done. Placements move the rating more than later matches, so a strong start lands you in a higher tier straight away.

How the rating moves

Everyone starts at 1000. After a match the rating of each player rises or falls based on where they finished and how strong the opponents were, using a model built for free-for-alls and teams rather than a simple win/lose count. Beating a higher-rated player is worth more; losing to one costs less. In team queues the team's result counts for every member. Ranked and clan war matches also give double XP for your account level.

Tiers

Tiers are 150 rating points wide with three divisions each (III, II, I):

Your tier and rating show on your profile, on your lobby card and under your name in ranked lobbies, and the leaderboards in the main menu list the top players per queue.

Playing ranked well

• Ranked maps are small: expansion ends in two minutes and the fight starts. Build a Defense Post early.
• In 1v1 the bots are the third player. Farm them for land while your opponent is busy, and don't let your opponent do the same.
• In duo and trio, one player should hold the land while another takes the sea; a port for the team early is worth two cities.
• Leaving a ranked match counts as a loss. Finish it, even from behind; comebacks with a late nuke are common.

Next: clans and clan wars.