Game after game after game... potato teammates?!

Been my experience since late season 2. War zone is kind of boring I am going through my library looking for older games to play. Apex mm or lack thereof killed this game for me.

@TheJumpingJawaHonestly I feel the same way, the only way I would return active in long term is the addition of solos, I think the reason most randoms choose not to use mics are the same reasons I myself choose to not use a mic...
1. I don’t even want to communicate and talk to other players period... I want to be alone
2. Leaving mic on invites players to be toxic wether thats verbally or text chat so I intentionally hit the mute squad button every match before I even see the character selection screen...
3. Most players don’t know how to correctly use a mic in a constructive manor that is actually beneficial to the match, ive only had 1-2 random players since I started apex that actually helped me and guided me through the game to a win by explaining what movements they were going to make and what we should make etc
4. All of the unnecessary and distracting back ground noises... wether thats static, keyboard clicks, someone screaming at their siblings/parents, some baby crying, tv, people talking to others in the same room, etc 

Teammates is a big factor in the game and I too face the same problems you described. I usually have k/d ratio between 2 and 3 whereas the teammates I get are new guys with 0-50 kills and have no clue how to use tacticals and ultimates or even how to shoot with the gun. Most of them get busy looting and providing no support to othes. Most of them start rushing out for no reason, for instance a few games ago i played a game where both my teammates rushed to 4th party a fight and i constantly screamed stop and what happened next was that amongst the 4 teams my 2 teammates died first. These keep happening again and again. EA should assign teams more carefully instead of randomly pairing anyone with anyone. Atleast check k/d ratio or even number of total kills to determine the team making.

Played numerous games yesterday, as a duo, and routinely faced off against squads who were obviously pre-made trios.

That means the random 3rd assigned to our squad, an individual who queued solo, was being matched against 3-man pre-made squads?!

Due to the mechanics of Apex (long TTK, relatively small mags, easy revives, quick heals, etc etc), squad coordination & teamwork plays a far greater role in the game than individual skill.

Thus matching solo players against pre-made trios makes a complete mockery of whatever SBMM is trying to achieve.

Here are my suggestions:

• Do away with SBMM, instead match players according to their pre-made squad size.
• Give us duo mode, permanently!
  • Solo queuers would be matched into 3 man squads of randoms, and play against other 3 man squads of randoms
  • Pre-made duos would play as a duo, against other pre-made duos.
  • Pre-made trios would play exclusively against other pre-made trios.

Skill would then reward success, rather than what we have atm which is largely loot luck & matchmaking luck.

@TheJumpingJawa Idk if you had noticed in duos that numerous teams used to team up and play duos, even i had been assigned randomly to one of those squads where 4 teams including mine were working together to take on other enemies. So, placing duos permanently will result in these teaming up scenarios, also that'll delay matchmaking.