Make Battlegrounds Scoring More Balanced (Not Just About Speed)

Jb_Murdahkid

Hey everyone, I’m a returning player—I left the game back in 2019 and just recently came back in 2025. I’m new to Battlegrounds and I really enjoy the 1v1 aspect of it. I think it’s a great addition and honestly, it’s pretty dope.

That said, I’m struggling to understand (and honestly don’t really like) how the point system works. How is time the main deciding factor when some opponents are running suicides and have all Rank 3 7-stars? Some champs hit like a Mack truck, while others feel like they’re swinging pillows or rely heavily on secondary damage.

In one match, I finished both rounds with 100% health and still lost. Two minutes isn’t a bad timer, but it feels like something’s off. There are just too many variables—champ differences, suicides, outdated AI—for time alone to be the deciding factor.

Can someone explain the logic behind this scoring system? It just doesn’t seem balanced.

Almccarthy

In the second screenshot do you think you should have won ?

JackTheSnack

First one I could maybe understand. Second one not at all

Pikolu

The scoring system is different from when it first launched. When it first launched, there was a max of 15k points you can get from speed. About a year ago, they changed it where speed is only worth 10k points just because too many matches were being determined who can nuke the opponent faster. 22 seconds is not an insignificant difference in time. That is more than a sixth of the entire match time alloted.

Asher1_1

If u think logically it doesn't matter - any change to scoring with. Re scoring there will be close case like 49-51(u lose) or 51-49(u won)

Eveyplayer face these but high placed players in BG don't bother they just move on to the next match .🤷🤷

They loose -100 one day
Then gain +110 another day

(I reached 150points then played 26 match was at 152) That's how BG is

Jb_Murdahkid

On the second screen shot I had more health so what happened?

Pikolu

Jb_Murdahkid said:

On the second screen shot I had more health so what happened?

The second screenshot where they ended at nearly 100% health losing only 2 points which is like 10 hp as well as finishing 6 seconds faster than you?

Furrymoosen

Jb_Murdahkid said:

On the second screen shot I had more health so what happened?

You can easily read the scoring to understand what happened. On the second screenshot your "more health" gave you 2 points. You really think you deserve the win for an irrelevant difference in health when your opponent finished the fight faster? That's just delusional. The scoring in no way favors time, but time is a part of the fight. Gotta bring all the pieces together. Speed and health, not just one or the other.

Jb_Murdahkid

You missed this line bud “Can someone explain the logic behind this scoring system? It just doesn’t seem balanced.”
Thanks for your input.

Furrymoosen

Jb_Murdahkid said:

You missed this line bud “Can someone explain the logic behind this scoring system? It just doesn’t seem balanced.”
Thanks for your input.

There's some grace to offer to you because you weren't here for the worse scoring balance, which Pikolu explained above, but nobody missed anything you were asking. The scoring is the most balanced it's ever been. There's reward for playing well, there's reward for playing quickly, and there's especially reward for doing both. Previous scoring was overbalanced toward timing and the goal was to just run through the fight as quickly and recklessly as possible to get the win. Players could finish at half health and get the win.
The matches you posted are hardly examples of an imbalance in the scoring. You can't just be good, and you can't just be fast - gotta be both, and your opponent was better at being both.

Jb_Murdahkid

Thanks, bro. I get how the math works now—that’s what I was trying to figure out.