These include:
- Third Ban During draft at the start of the draft.
- MMR & Rank decay
- Placement seeding & re-seeding
- New players can't be placed higher than gold 5
- Players who return after extended breaks will no longer be re-seeded based on performance in other game modes.
- New players can't be placed higher than gold 5
- Ranked Matchmaking Improvements
- Hardened Hero League matchmaking rules to enforce higher-quality matches over reducing queue times.
- Hardened Hero League matchmaking rules to enforce higher-quality matches over reducing queue times.
This will be followed by improvements to Quick match which will be announced this summer.
Previously they mentioned their intention to revamp hero classes and to force more standard comps for quick match. Their plan at that time was that it'd require 1 tank-warrior, 1 healer and 1 assassin, and 2 flex picks. Pending testing and the queues not erupting in molten lava, initially this will be the new standard for the vast majority of QM compositions.
The plan then is to follow up on this change by adding more incentives for queuing as roles that are currently underrepresented in the matchmaking queue which will then make this a hard requirement for every team.