Does leaving a Ranked Match hurt your Rank?

[Honeybun_HyvalTTV]

Sometimes I find myself in games with teamkillers or trolls to the point that it's impossible to continue without just losing and staying dead. If this gets bad enough, I leave.

With that in mind, does leaving a Ranked match impart any penalty besides the 8 minute ban? I've been knocked down to Bronze (and kept there after the matchmaking system kept putting me on teams of all-Bronze against all-Gold-or-higher players...), so I'd like to know if leaving under these circumstances is going to harm me more.

[Cpt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell]

yes

[Fufu]

Are you sure ?

http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/1418994-Update-2-3-Patch-Notes
Ranked Matchmaking Improvements
We are aware there are multiple issues at the moment with the Ranked playlist, and we’re working on several iterations to make this playlist what it deserves to be. The following fixes are the ones that could be delivered short-term, which we believe will have the biggest impact. Keep in mind that there are several other improvements in our plans for the future – read the top issues section of the known issues list, under ‘Ranked Matchmaking’ for additional information on said plans.

Ranked matches will now only start if there are 10 players in the lobby.
Our intention is that Ranked matches should be fair. Having matches start without having two full teams of 5 goes against the promise of this playlist. Therefore, we have altered the flow of Ranked matches so that if a players leaves during match countdown, the countdown will now reset. The lobby will stay open with the remaining players and the matchmaking will proceed to find new players to refill said lobby.

We do anticipate a problem with this flow: because players can see the rank, K/D ratio and W/L ratio of other players in the lobby, there tends to be lots of “dodging” during this phase. Because of this, we’re currently investigating two other elements that we might revamp in the future:

UI: we will most likely hide some players information in the lobby, as we don’t think they’re necessarily relevant for this specific portion of the match flow.

Abandon system: we’re investigating making it so that abandoning a lobby that is full will count as an abandon – there is additional development needs for this, which is why we couldn’t have this feature in time for this update.

Ranked reconnection mechanics have been improved.

Multiple reconnection bugs have been fixed. In most cases, when players disconnect involuntarily, the reconnection flow does not function as intended. We’re pushing lots of fixes in this update that we believe should address the biggest part of those bugs. We will keep monitoring and pushing this further.
The reconnection flow has been reworked to triggered more frequently and easier to access. Our objective is to let players reconnect to their Ranked matches as long as they’re still running and encourage players to play them till the end.
Reconnection now possible in all circumstances: the new flow will allow players to reconnect no matter how they got disconnected – even if they left for the main menu or quit the game.
Force player commitment to Ranked matches: if a player leaves a Ranked match that is still ongoing, he or she will not be able to queue for another Ranked match. Selecting “Ranked” in the Multiplayer menu will reconnect him or her to the ongoing match, instead of launching matchmaking for a new one.
Abandon penalty to be re-evaluated: if a player leaves a Ranked match and fails to reconnect before it ends, they will get the already existing abandon penalty, which prevents from queuing for Ranked matches for 8 minutes. Note that we do not think this punishment is strong enough to be fully effective, and we intend on increasing it in the future – but we need the reconnect system to be satisfactory before we can move to this step.

[Cpt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell]

Go in game and select rank, then it says *if you leave a ranked game it will count as a loss, (forgive spelling) potentially lowering your rank

[Rational man]

Yes before a recent hotfix leaving ranked matchs would glitch your rank and make it almost impossible to rank up.

[Setsuo]

No, I sometimes leave matches and I still gain mmr which is stupid

[Fibre🌹]

From my smurf accounts, all I can tell you is that in the beginning of the round, if you leave straight away it'll count as a loss. But if you continue to play round 1 and then leave it really depends if your team wins/loses cause it'll count as such and chances of no MMR or Half MMR. Oh and if you play until the last part and then leave, most likely it'll count as an abandon. I've deranked my smurf account to Copper by leaving in the first match with only 49s in total of played Ranked.