While Dead by Daylight is quite fun as a casual experience with friends, it can get quite competitive too, especially among experienced players. If you enjoy the competitive aspect of multiplayer games, Dead by Daylight has a ranking system that displays your strengths and how good you are at the game.
The ranking system in the game went through a few overhauls and currently, it is in a place that many fans of the game enjoy. However, it may be a bit confusing at first. Here’s everything you need to know.
Dead by Daylight ranking system, explained
Since the old ranking system was considered to be a little clunky by many players, Behaviour Interactive overhauled the entire process in 2021. The current ranking system will have you go through Grades, which is a representation of your current skill level at the game. The higher your Grade is, the better opponents and allies you will get matched with.
Does DBD have Skill Based Matchmaking?
While Grades are a representation of your skill, the old Matchmaking Rating (MMR) system is still used to keep track of your progress from one Grade to the next. The matches you find are also based on MMR, so tracking your progress is integral to understanding the level of players that you get matched with and against. You, however, cannot see the Grades of other players in your match.
All DBD ranks in order
Currently, there are five tiers of Grades in Dead by Daylight. Each one is represented by a certain term as mentioned below. We listed all the DBD ranks in order below.
- Ash
- Ash I
- Ash II
- Ash III
- Ash IV
- Bronze
- Bronze I
- Bronze II
- Bronze III
- Bronze IV
- Silver
- Silver I
- Silver II
- Silver III
- Silver IV
- Gold
- Gold I
- Gold II
- Gold III
- Gold IV
- Iridescent
- Iridescent I
- Iridescent II
- Iridescent III
- Iridescent IV
- Iridescent V
Going from the lowest tier to the highest, the Grades go from Ash, Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Iridescent. Each tier of Grade has four different levels to it making a total of 20 Grades to progress through. This system is similar to other competitive games such as Dota 2 and its medal system.
Climbing the DBD ranks: Pips, explained
Progressing through each Grade level requires you to increase your MMR and reach certain milestones called Pips. Pips are awarded to you based on your performance in the match, gaining up to +1 or +2 Pips for each win and -1 Pip for each loss. Once you accumulate a certain amount of Pips per Grade, you will advance to the next Grade.
To make it easier to understand, here is a list of the number of Pips you will need to ascend through the Grade levels. You start off your ranked journey at Ash IV and it proceeds from there.
- Ash IV – Ash III: Three Pips
- Ash III – Ash II: Three Pips
- Ash II – Ash I: Four Pips
- Ash I – Bronze IV: Four Pips
- Bronze IV – Bronze III: Four Pips
- Bronze III – Bronze II: Four Pips
- Bronze II – Bronze I: Four Pips
- Bronze I – Silver IV: Four Pips
- Silver IV – Silver III: Five Pips
- Silver III – Silver II: Five Pips
- Silver II – Silver I: Five Pips
- Silver I – Gold IV: Five Pips
- Gold IV – Gold III: Five Pips
- Gold III – Gold II: Five Pips
- Gold II – Gold I: Five Pips
- Gold I – Iridescent IV: Five Pips
- Iridescent IV – Iridescent III: Five Pips
- Iridescent III – Iridescent II: Five Pips
- Iridescent II – Iridescent I: Five Pips
Once you reach Iridescent I, you’ve reached the highest Grade possible and will now match with the best players that Dead by Daylight has to offer, depending on your region. As you can see, the Pip requirements for going up the ranks only increase as you go higher.
Can you lose your rank in DBD?
Unlike the previous ranking system, even if you lose all your Pips, you cannot be demoted to a lower Grade. Your Grade can only be lost during a Grade Reset. These Grades last through a season, which goes on for a month. Every season is reset on the 13th of each month, meaning you will have to grind through the ranks again you receive your Grade during the next season.
To know how many Pips you will receive with every win, you have to identify how many Emblems you earn per match. The more Emblems you gain, the more Pips you will earn after each win, which is either +1 or +2 Pips. Depending on whether you play as the killer or a survivor, and your current Grade, you will gain different Emblems that provide you with different bonus rewards at the end of each match.
- Killer Emblems
- Chaser: Successfully completed chases against survivors.
- Devout: Successfully sacrificed survivors.
- Gatekeeper: Successfully interrupted or slowed down generator repairs.
- Malicious: Successfully pressurized the survivors.
- Survivor Emblems
- Benevolent: Successfully helped a teammate against the killer.
- Evader: Successfully evaded chases against the killer.
- Lightbringer: Successfully repaired generators.
- Unbroken: Successfully survived the onslaught of the killer.
Make sure you achieve all your objectives before the season resets.
To grind Pips as a Killer, keep generators off and sacrifice survivors. For Survivors do totems, fix generators, and safely unhook and heal teammates.
How the DBD rank reset works
The final thing to note here is the monthly seasonal reset. After you progress through the ranks, come the 13th of every month, your progress will be reset and you will go back to being Ash IV once again. While this might seem disheartening, Dead by Daylight rewards players based on their Grade level during the season before the reset happens.
Depending on what your Grade level was, you will be awarded a certain number of Bloodpoints after each reset. Bloodpoints are one of six different in-game currencies that you can use to progress your character. Using Bloodpoints, you can level up your character to level 50 and purchase several different upgrades from the Bloodweb.
These are the number of Bloodpoints you will get after each seasonal reset.
- Ash IV: 10,000 Bloodpoints
- Ash III: 20,000 Bloodpoints
- Ash II: 35,000 Bloodpoints
- Ash I: 50,000 Bloodpoints
- Bronze IV: 100,000 Bloodpoints
- Bronze III: 125,000 Bloodpoints
- Bronze II: 150,000 Bloodpoints
- Bronze I: 175,000 Bloodpoints
- Silver IV: 250,000 Bloodpoints
- Silver III: 280,000 Bloodpoints
- Silver II: 310,000 Bloodpoints
- Silver I: 340,000 Bloodpoints
- Gold IV: 400,000 Bloodpoints
- Gold III: 450,000 Bloodpoints
- Gold II: 500,000 Bloodpoints
- Gold I: 550,000 Bloodpoints
- Iridescent IV: 700,000 Bloodpoints
- Iridescent III: 800,000 Bloodpoints
- Iridescent II: 900,000 Bloodpoints
- Iridescent I: 1,000,000 Bloodpoints
And that’s all there is to know about the ranking system in Dead by Daylight. The game might be challenging at first, but as you progress through the ranks, you will gain more information and experience that will help you rise up the Grades to the next level soon enough.
