A roundup of ranked siege and how to rank up

((DISCLAIMER) before you start reading my guide, this is just a heads up that this IS my first guide in steam and I am NOT a professional siege player. I’m only doing this to give newer players to ranked siege a hand in getting their head around the game. Enjoy the guide <3) This guide will help earlier players to the ranked siege scene. It will include multiple tips such as operators, call outs and strategies.

So, First time in siege ranked?

At first, siege ranked is a great way for you to challenge yourself and see where you’d place up against fellow players of the game. Starting out you have to be level fifty or above to join a ranked game.

Firstly, Ranking placements

In the beginning there are 10 placement matches for you to play.
Playing these matches will change your MMR (Matchmaking Rating).
At the start of these placements you will have 2500 MMR so that’s about gold 3
These matches are probably the most important matches you can possibly play since they have the biggest impact on your MMR in one match.

For example I may play all my 10 matches and end up with 5 wins and 5 losses. Which means I’d stay pretty even in my ranking and would end up in gold 3 or silver one.

TIP

I recommend not playing siege ranked as soon as you reach level 50, first get a wrap around all the different maps and learn how to play on them

Now that’s great and all but, who should I use?

In siege there are a vast variety of different operators, all with their own unique gadgets utilities and weapons. In the variety of these operators there are classes.

Here are a couple of these simplified classes

INTEL:
Intel operators have a utility that help teammates get around the map safely and find an enemy. An example of an intel operator is Valkyrie, Valkyrie has deployable cameras that she can place around the map to help her teammates.

SUPPORT:
Support operators help teammates in multiple ways such as healing, giving cover or just giving the team a upper hand against the opponent.


ADVANCED CLASSES:

In siege there are some pretty complex classes, so here are a few to wrap your head around.

(ATTACKERS)

HARD BREACHERS:
Hard breachers are operators that can destroy reinforced walls and floors they can also use their utility to destroy unreinforced walls and floors too
e.g. Thermite and Hibana

HARD BREACH SUPPORT/ ANTI-GADGET:
These operators are mainly used to help destroy a electrical reinforced wall. They use their gadget to get rid of the electrical utility of the defender. These operators are a heavy aid to hard breachers
e.g. Thatcher and Twitch

SOFT BREACHERS:
Soft breachers have the utility to be able to destroy soft, unreinforced walls and floors
e.g. Ash and Zofia

(DEFENDERS)

ANCHORS:
An anchor is an operator that stays in the same room or stays close to the objective and holding angles on multiple doorways.
e.g. Rook, Mira

ROAMERS:
Roamers are operators that play around the map, hunting and giving call outs for teammates around the map, roamers tend to be the faster operators such as vigil, caveira and jager

ANTI-RUSHERS/ TRAPPERS
These operators use traps as their utility to slow down and damage enemies.
e.g. Frost, Kapkan

BREACH DEFENCE:
Breach Defence is an operator who can stop a hard breacher from blowing up a wall. There are a couple of different ways of countering a hard breacher. For example Bandit can use his CED-1 (shock wire) to stop a hard breacher placing their hard breach. Another example is mute. Mute can use his mute jammers to place next to a wall to jam the attacker’s hard breach.

(MORE EXPERIENCED AND CONFIDENT PLAYERS)
FRAGGER:
A fragger is a player on a team (both defending and attacking) that leads the team on the leaderboard and in kills. A fragger needs to be confident in being able to take down multiple amounts of enemies on the other team, therefore giving his/her team the upper hand.
Most fraggers use operators such as Ash, Zofia, Jager, Amaru
(On the defending side, most fraggers tend to use roamers.)
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TACTICS

Now the best way to win a match of siege is by having the upper hand, right?
So what you want to do is have a different variety of operators on your team, varying on what they all do and how they can help out a team.
If you’re attacking you at least want 1-2 hard breachers, an anti-gadget (preferably thatcher) and a fragger (ash or zofia).

Defending is more flexible in what you need for each round depending on where the bombs are. You will most likely need a Bandit or Kaid to stop hard breachers, an intel gatherer such as mozzie or Valkyrie, a roamer such as vigil or caveira and a support operator such as Rook and doc. Depending on the situation of the game you may want to play more aggressive and have multiple roamers (roaming operators aren’t the greatest to play if you’re newer at the game, since you need to learn and memorise rotations to be able to have the upper hand on the enemy, my suggestion is if you’re decently experienced at siege then go ahead and roam, but if you’re newer it’ll be best to learn how to play on site instead of roaming) you should only ever have 2 roamers max, even one is plenty enough, you don’t want to overwhelm your teammates who have to defend site from 5 other players

Communication

In siege, Communication is everything, giving a good callout to clutch up a round to telling where a rotation should be placed.

Pings

In a match there are various amounts of pings to help you and your team navigate your way through to win. If these pings are used correctly they can easily give your team an upper hand in a gun fight

Chat/Voice Chat

Voice chat is much more useful than normal Chat but if you don’t have a microphone it’s best to still use chat to give callouts to your teammates. (TIP: don’t get heated and start trash talking the other team, it’ll stop you from focusing on the match and make you create a bad decision)

Callouts

On every map on siege there are different rooms that have different names, you can see this on your hud with the little compass on the bottom right on your screen


(There is a new layout in siege that pros are recommending but I haven’t seen much of it in depth so I’m sticking with the original hud for now, completely your decision to change huds)

The compass is a great way to learn room callouts to give to your teammates

Wrap up

Now this isn’t much detail into siege but it’s just small things to get used to. I will make more guides showing your way through multiple different maps and how to play on them strategically but for now this is just a small guide for some newer rank players.

Thank you for reading and I hope this helps!

[Koda]

ah true thanks <3

[Flatline]

u could mention not to red ping on cams unless needed just to help your team more, nothing worse than a cheeky valk cam being your only cam left up and it gets shot because someone red pings.

[Koda]

glad i can help ^^

[i asked]

i have about 300 hours on siege and i absolutely suck (high copper low bronze), im trying my best to improve in general, thanks for this post

[Unodro]

Well done, at level 80 but I still don't dare touching ranked. Waiting a while until I play competitively but thanks!

[Cootis]

wow so interesting

[Koda]

If you have any feedback for the guide, I would really appreciate any type of criticism because making this guide is something I wanted to do just to help newer people ^^ Thank you!