Are you baffled by the SR system in Ranked Play? Well, read this guide to be baffled no longer.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Ranked Play finally arrived with the Season 2 update, giving competitive fans the dedicated mode they've been waiting for since the game launched. The mode uses the same rules, weapons, and maps as the professional Call of Duty League, giving players a chance to play just like the pros they watch every weekend. As you hop into Black Ops 7 Ranked Play, you'll notice that your rank is fully determined by a mysterious kind of XP called "SR."
Whether you're a Ranked Play veteran trying to learn how to get more SR or a new player who doesn't exactly know how SR works, check out the guide below for a full breakdown of the Ranked Play XP.
What is SR in Black Ops 7 Ranked Play?
SR is essentially how you progress to new ranks in Ranked Play. After every match you play in Ranked, you'll see an increase or decrease in SR. You get an increase in SR if you win a match and a decrease in SR if you lose a match, regardless of how well you played or how close the match was.
The increase or decrease affects your total SR, which determines your current rank. For example, if you're at 4,200 total SR, then you're in Platinum II. Your starting SR is given to you after you've won your three placement matches, and from there, you'll start losing or gaining SR as you play more matches. You can see all of the Ranked Play icons and the SR needed for each rank in our previous guide.
How to gain more SR in Black Ops 7 Ranked Play
The amount of SR you gain or lose after a Ranked Play match is dependent on a few different factors. For starters, as we mentioned earlier, you'll always gain or lose SR depending on whether you won or lost the match. Beyond that, the actual number you gain or lose is primarily determined by your performance, how close the match was, and your hidden MMR.
If you lead the lobby in kills, objective time, score, etc., you'll see an uptick in your SR gained. The same goes for if the match was a blow-out, but if the match was close, like 250-240 in Hardpoint, then you'll gain/lose less SR.
However, the hidden MMR system is a little more complicated to explain. Basically, this system gives you an invisible rating that you can't see, and it's determined by your placement matches, overall performances across all of Ranked Play, and your total margin of victories/losses. This hidden MMR determines where the system thinks you should be ranked.
As you approach the rank the system thinks you should be, you'll gain less and less SR per win. However, the farther you're away from that rank, you'll gain more SR after wins, as the system is trying to get you to that rank faster. If you keep on winning once you get to your hidden MMR's peak rank, your hidden MMR will change, and you'll start gaining more SR.
Basically, if you get to the rank where the system thinks you should be and you start performing worse and losing half of your matches, you'll only receive around 20-30 SR per win. Receiving this amount of SR is commonly referred to as being "hardstuck." If you're receiving 50-70 SR per win, then the system thinks you should be ranked higher than where you currently are ranked.
You can change your hidden MMR by playing better and winning more once you reach your "hardstuck" rank. However, it can take a while to get out of that low-SR loop, so be patient and keep grinding.
To make sure you're as competitive as you can be, check out our Ranked Play loadout guides for the Dravec 45 and the M15 Mod 0. Also, use our best overall class for Ranked Play so you give yourself the biggest advantage possible.
