The Finals Ruby Guide

What is Ruby rank?

Ruby is the highest rank in The Finals, reached only by the top 2% of the playerbase each season. It sits above Diamond 1 and requires not just reaching ~50,000 RS, but maintaining performance and continuing to climb through a range where every loss is punishing and every win is hard-fought.

The path to Ruby is not a sprint — it's a sustained grind at the hardest level of play in the game. Most players who reach Diamond 1 plateau here for weeks or entire seasons.

What changes at Diamond → Ruby

At Diamond, good mechanics and basic cashout understanding are enough to climb. At Ruby, everyone has good mechanics. The differentiators shift entirely:

• Decision speed — you're processing the same information as everyone else, but acting on it 0.5–1 second faster
• Composition discipline — Ruby players never run off-meta builds. HHL and HML dominate at this level
• Cashout timing mastery — Ruby players almost never start a cashout from a bad position or at a bad time
• Mental consistency — Ruby players take breaks after losses. They don't tilt. They play the same quality game in match 10 as match 1

The Diamond 1 wall

Most players who reach Diamond 1 spend more time there than in any other rank. The wall exists for a specific reason: at Diamond 1 you're playing against the players who are also trying to reach Ruby, meaning you face the most concentrated group of competitive, improving players in the entire game.

Breaking through requires identifying your specific weakest skill and drilling it. If you're losing cashout fights, study positioning. If you're getting flanked repeatedly, work on map awareness. Generalised play stops improving you at this level — you need targeted work on specific gaps.

How to climb through Ruby RS

Once you break into Ruby (~50,000 RS), the climb doesn't get easier. Each 1,000 RS increment requires more effort than the last. At 55,000+ RS you're playing against a very small pool of the best players in the game — every session is a serious test.

• Play fewer sessions, higher quality — two focused 2-hour sessions beat a 6-hour grind session where you're tired after hour 3
• Track your session stats — note your RS at the start and end of each session. Identify which days and times you perform best
• Queue with reliable teammates — solo queue at 55,000+ RS is extremely punishing. Two coordinated teammates changes the win rate dramatically
• Accept variance — at this level, some losses are simply due to unfavourable matchmaking or random factors. Don't chase losses

Safe Ruby range

Ruby resets at the end of each season. The "safe" RS threshold — the score that guarantees you stay in Ruby through typical end-of-season decay — varies each season but is generally in the 54,000–58,000 range. Getting to 50,000 RS is not enough to guarantee Ruby placement next season.