FACEIT Rating Explained: What 1.1 Means and Whether It Changes Your Elo (2026)

Since Season 8, every FACEIT match ends with a second number next to your Elo change: your FACEIT Rating. It looks like the familiar "1.05" performance scores from stat sites, but FACEIT builds it differently — from how much each thing you do changes your team's chance of winning. This guide explains what the number measures, what 0.7, 1.1 and 1.4 mean, why it doesn't move your Elo, and how it fed the Season 9 reset.

What FACEIT Rating measures

FACEIT describes the rating as a measure of how much your actions change your team's chance of winning the round and the match. Its model keeps a live win probability for every round, built from the situation — round score, players alive, health, weapons and economy, equipment, bomb status — and every action you take (kills, utility, objectives) moves that probability up or down. Your rating adds those swings up across the match, so the same action scores differently depending on the round situation. FACEIT says the model was built from millions of completed FACEIT matches.

How to read the number

FACEIT publishes only those three points — there are no official bands in between, and no rating "per level". Read single matches loosely: one bad map says little; your profile's running average over recent matches is the useful number.

Rating, Elo and level: what each one does

Want to see what one match is worth? The FACEIT Elo gain calculator estimates the Elo on the line from both teams' average Elo.

FACEIT Rating and the Season 9 reset

Season 9 started on 5 August 2026 with a lighter, personalised soft reset built from activity, win rate and FACEIT Rating over your last 50 games. Fewer than 20 wins in Season 8 added an extra inactivity penalty, and players above 2,500 Elo usually started lower — the top end was compressed. That's the one place the rating has touched Elo so far — at a reset, as one input among three. FACEIT hasn't announced Season 10 or its format (it says "We run resets when the ecosystem needs them"), so nobody knows yet whether the next reset will read the rating again; the Season 10 guide tracks what's known.

How to raise your FACEIT Rating

Because the rating rewards actions that change who wins the round, the habits that raise it are the ones that win rounds — our coaches' reading of FACEIT's description, not FACEIT rules:

1. Trade your teammates.

   A trade kill right after a teammate dies swings the round back — the kind of action the model weighs heavily.

2. Use utility that wins fights.

   A flash that gets a teammate the opening kill or a smoke that lets your side take a site moves the win probability; a random nade doesn't.

3. Play the objective.

   Planting, defusing and holding the bomb site count — objectives are one of the three action types FACEIT names.

4. Take the fights that matter.

   Opening duels on an even buy are worth more than chasing kills when the round is already decided.

5. Review your low-rated matches.

   Find the rounds where you died first without a trade — a demo review shows them in minutes.

Does a boost change your FACEIT Rating?

A FACEIT Elo boost raises your Elo and level — the numbers that decide your matches and your badge. The rating on each match reflects whoever played it; with the duo option you play every match yourself, so the rating stays yours. If the goal is a better rating rather than a higher level, a coaching hour or a demo analysis works on the habits behind it. FACEIT's zero-tolerance list includes rank manipulation and smurfing — read is CS2 boosting safe before you order.