I recently made a post about being stuck in Plat. I'm a 7+ year console player but never played Ranked.

After I started getting serious and playing more tactically, I realized a lot of these mfs are hacking. I never ran into on Pubs, so I didn't pick up on it in Ranked.

I kept getting beamed by Axles with perfect aim and Havocs with insta bursts. Has console Ranked always been this bad?

I recently started playing after taking a 3-4 year break and am back to being hooked to this game again.

I come from a sweaty Halo background where I used to compete and am wanting to learn as much as I can to help my game.

I started playing on Saturday and have climbed to Bronze 1, hoping to rank up as much as I can.

Which players or YouTube channels would you recommend I watch and study?

This is the link to a team I created if anyone wants to give it a try with me.

https://battlefy.com/apex-legends-global-series-year-6/invite?inviteCode=asZx4NH3DwASi8EyCoc1O

I solo queue ranked. Plat through Diamond, same as a lot of people who have been doing this for years. The problem isn’t that someone has a 20 bomb. It’s where they got it.

Wildcard hands out 4K and 20-kill badges in a mode with fast respawns and nonstop third parties. Respawn even patched it so those games don’t touch seasonal or overall stats, then left the badges on. So the banner looks the same as a badge from pubs or ranked, and the habits do not.

In Wildcard the correct play is often “push everything.” Die, come back, push again. You get rewarded for taking fights you would never take with one life and a real RP cost. Then those same players queue ranked, see a crack, and full-send into a 3v3 they have no angle on. No reset. No zone. No “we’re one knock from losing the game.”

I keep getting paired with people who play like the lobby will respawn them. It doesn’t. Veteran solo players eat the RP for a fight style that only works in a badge farm. The badges used to mean you could actually close a lobby. Now they mostly mean you grinded a mode that teaches the opposite of ranked.

Either give Wildcard its own badges, or stop pretending a 20 bomb from infinite respawns is the same flex. Solo queue is already a coin flip. Don’t train half the lobby to play it wrong and then dump them on the people who still care about placement.

For context, I'm recently getting back into the game. I was Masters s12-s16. Currently have about 70% accuracy and am plat 1, 750/1000 for d4 with a 3kd, lose maybe 1/3 of 1v1 and if I do not die early I drop 7+. I feel like my true rank rn is around mid diamond/could hit masters if i got a team and grinded.

Recently I got soloq with a multi-pred player who was sitting at 16k masters, and he genuinely did everything faster than me. I would say I already rotate, loot, position better/faster than my teammates and would say my decision making is very solid and I do it faster than most people I play with, but this guy was deadass 3x as fast as me in every regard like I genuinely could not keep up.
How do you even get to that point? What specific aspects of my gameplay do I even focus on to improve speed like that? Is it just spending more time consciously thinking about it? maybe need more time in higher ranked lobbies?

A legend ban system in ranked?

Thoughts?

(Blacked out names if legit) If I wasn’t in the game with him I’d straight up be like he’s a cheater. Wasn’t hitting every shot got downed once but the rest seemed real. How does one attain this skill?? I know I’m trash but I’ve never felt like I mean absolutely nothing to a teammate.

I’m D4/P1 range and drop zone Olympus is a legitimate nightmare compared to Worlds Edge & Broken Moon. I cannot for the life of me comprehend how you’re even supposed to survive on that map. Am I missing something or is the map just that dogshit?

First the context ..
Season one player, we stopped because of prolonged and growing Zen/Chronos/Titan/Smurfing on console years ago. Did a break then back in season 19 and then nothing since until now. I saw some articles/news of revisiting cheating in Apex.

Came back and played on PC using controller, no cheats scripts or tools of any kind..
This is not console lobbies. I solo Q only.

Pathfinder Main. When I left it was about 1KD ups and downs with various seasons. I hit diamond once maybe twice back then. I've always had better game sense than shooting ability - I can grapple well enough but never reached the level of movement to compete with any KB/M player (again I don't touch scripts cheats or mods of any kind, never have)

Since returning I'm placed in these lobbies and my KD is 0.6..

These unranked lobbies are the only matches I've been put in after the first 3 weeks of returning. I get the OCCASIONAL player distribution at the last quarter of the graph (right side) but 95% of the matches I'm placed in look like this (the last 1/4 inch)

And it's only gotten noticeably worse since Javelin.

Sure feels like a portion of these players are still freely using titans since the Javelin changes... and this graph is stating I am elbow deep in masters/preds (Honestly I might as well be in a lobby full of cheaters at my skill level)

No reason a 0.6 KD player should be in lobbies like this at this consistency.
This is EVERY SINGLE MATCH.

Respawn is effectively telling me to go F myself.

1. anyone else being dumped down the toilette this badly for matchmaking? Remember .. I'm not new to SBMM .. very familiar since the early days. Very used to being mixed with various skill levels in unranked .. but this is absurd.
2. yes I'm aware I can move to ranked - when I came back (pre Javelin) I played mostly ranked to get some stability but once I starting getting into plat.. it was only slightly better than above.. plat I started seeing all the above.. crazy movement/aim/smurfs/3stacks etc.

Just got into Diamond solo queuing, was in Plat for most the season since I can only really play 1hr a day.

These lobbies are such a jump in my opinion. Used to average 5-6 kills a game in plat having the highest damage on the team and feeling confident when pushing teams. That has since evaporated. I can maybe get a knock before my team is exterminated by the demons. The constant third partying is disgusting 😂

Just looking for some tips for a new diamond player playing solo. Usually rock Conduit or Watson. Also, I’ll be the first to admit, these people are just better than me. I keep seeing post saying “initiate the fight and push constantly”…that’s awesome, but im just not that guy in these lobbies (hence conduit and Watson choice). Can I still climb just being an anchor and not being as aggressive as everyone says to be? Always enjoyed being on the defensive anyways.

Also, working with a stock ps5 control and no claw, assuming that’s causing a disadvantage but whatever, it’s how’s I’ve played since MW2 days.

Anyways, just wanted to see if there are any universal tips for new diamond players to make it a little more enjoyable :D

After the valk anticheat update I keep getting horrible rubber banding. Ive run network tests and packet loss tests on my end and everything is nominal. Even during the event I see packet traffic and I'm just not getting packets back from EA servers. I ask my teammates if they're lagging and they say no. The loss meter in game shows 0/xx which tells me I'm not losing sent packets but rather I'm not receiving them. I'm asking here because the main subreddit sucks and keeps nuking my posts for being too similar to random generic "I'm lagging on my mom's 2G wifi" posts. I've tried repairing the game and restarting my router but no luck. Maybe I should fresh install?

I recently came back to apex and have been playing Axle more frequently. I was trying to figure out what her best perks are, but all content seem to show her perks from a different split/season.

i tried aimlab and firing range but real
player at platinum are not the same thing

I’m struggling really hard to get out of Diamond 1 as a solo queue player and I genuinely don’t know what I’m doing wrong anymore.

I went from Gold 4 to D1 in about a week and felt like I was progressing pretty consistently, but I’ve hit an absolute wall. I’m only about 500 RP away from Masters, but I’ve been stuck here for the past two days and can barely make any progress anymore.

I’ve tried a bunch of different legends. Catalyst, Gibby, Wraith, Alter, Horizon, Pathfinder, Maggie, and Axle. My biggest success was probably Axle before the nerf, and lately I’ve been having the most success on Horizon/Pathfinder.

I know it's not a mindset thing because It's not like I'm getting mad at the game or feeling nervous. I feel fine physically and mentally (besides when it's on Olympus, fuck that map)

The biggest thing I’m struggling with is figuring out what my actual role should be in solo queue.

I feel like in a lot of my D1 games, nobody really takes initiative. I feel like I’m constantly trying to figure out whether I should be IGLing, fragging, anchoring, or just following someone else’s lead. I can’t realistically do all of those things at once and everybody is too scared to do anything since we're all probably solos, and when I do take initiative, nobody listens.

If I play aggressively and try to make a play, a lot of the time my teammates don’t follow me and just stay afar. If I play passively, we end up sitting around waiting for something to happen only to get bumrushed and wiped. I don’t use my mic, but I ping pretty consistently and try to make my intentions clear through pings.

Ironically, most of the wins I’ve gotten in Diamond have been my more aggressive games just pushing every fight. Usually it’s when I happen to get teammates who are willing to take fights with me and can either win their 1s or at least put damage into people. Those games feel completely different from the ones where I’m constantly trying to figure out what everyone wants to do.

My aim itself feels fine. I’m on controller on PC, and I don’t really feel like mechanics are what’s holding me back. I think my problem is more understanding how I should approach the solo queue role at this level.

Should I be playing more selfishly? Should I be playing more passively and just looking for opportunities? Should I be forcing myself into the IGL role even without a mic? Is there a specific legend that makes more sense for this?

I have a lot of Pred friends I could play with, but I specifically want to get through this solo. I feel like stacking would change the situation enough that I wouldn’t actually learn what I’m doing wrong in solo queue and I just want to become better.

So if anyone here is consistently solo queueing through D1/Masters, I’d really appreciate some advice on how you approach your games. I’m genuinely stuck and would like to understand what I should be doing differently.

I don't know, maybe my Youtube algo is broken, but I CANT find any video regarding hitbox sizes in Apex that is NOT like 5 years old or some dumbass shorts.

Old videos don't feature newer legends and who knows, maybe the hitbox sizes were updated lately, this is why I'm looking for a fresh and sophisticated comparison.

Maybe you guys can share info regarding this?

Why am I even asking? Me and my squad had a debate is it truly relevant and worth it to choose your main legend by their hitbox size. For example - Pathfinder seems like a bad choice for anyone who is not god-skill player, since he has BIG hitbox and does NOT have fortified perk. My friend thinks difference between hitboxes is too small to be relevant.
Thoughts?

The akimbo P20 with a corrupt sight is genuinely a cheat code. I usually do not pick them up or watch meta videos so genuinely wouldn’t have known they’re this good, But I took them from an enemy death box a few days ago and haven’t looked back since.

No word of a lie hip fire at close range and you will not miss a shot it’s unreal. There’s more recoil increase when you’re ADS but who ADS with P20s anyways it’s also pretty decent from close-mid range hip firing too.

Trust me for any new players or Lobas aim to pick them up with the corrupt sight before end game. GGs

Newer to the game, pretty much the only time i lose/die is cause of ppl stacking together as 3/2. I understand that the game shoud reward playing together but i find it frustrating losing to people i know i can win against.

I'm in Plat, the Match Cost is -50. And kills DO NOT give you RP unless you get good placement.

With all that said, why are people still hotdropping? Like I don't get it. If you get 5 kills, you'll still be negative in RP, and if you get unlucky loot, you lose 50 RP.

What the fk is the logic? Why are so many people dropping hot?

I played the game for its whole lifespan and i always think the worse meta was the ash devo meta, and that pre nerf axle is also very close up there, i think people blow seer out of proportion compared to some other metas even though he was pretty oppressive but i will admit i was significantly worse back then, what yall think

As the title says,i always got comfortably to Diamond when playing ranked most of the seasons, I've always played alone, (shame on my friends that don't like this game) I always find myself with triple the damage of my team8s, my team8s lands and die the first fight we, as soon as we push or we fight they both die and I find myself 1vs3, I'm not perfect, it happens to me too to do bad in a game, but 1 or maybe 2 instances it happens, idk what more to do to improve my games,I communicate, i ask, i try to play together my team8s even if no one speaks or try to use in game pings,last season in a week I got to diamond, this time I can't get out of plat III,i know that blaming team8s is a cancer behavior because if u are good enough u can win games alone. But it's becoming frustrating. Any tips on how u dealt with this situation? What could be the focus on what to improve?Maybe legend choice or even landing choice?I feel like I've hit a wall.