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Oppos21
3 years ago

I solo queue Silver and non-stop get Platinum and Diamond lobbies

As title says. I've been queuing as Silver in Season 17, but non-stop get 3-stack plat and diamond players. How is this even happening? Are they all smurf cheating?
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NerfMyAimPlz
3 years ago

@matzesingt 

Hehe no not if you identify as a rat, but for me who identify as a MAN, its probably harder =) So then his argument is even less valid since current diamonds are actually worse than form the old system =)

@Oppos21 

But how do you see your teammates and enemies current rank? I havent figured that out yet. Seems censored for me.

Also, there are no "diamond lobbies" anymore. There are only lobbies that picks players of a certain ELO to the same match. So if its true that you only play with Plats and diamonds, then it means that your ELO is high enough to be placed in those lobbies and most likely are you compensated for that in your LP gains (skill, performance or whtever the new LP categories are called)

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    Oppos21
    3 years ago

    You can see the ranks after you die in the top right corner of the screen. Just "observe" the other players.
    Also, what is the point of "ranks" if it doesn't even determine the opponents I get and just places me in "appropriate" lobbies anyway? If you're going to just place me in Diamond lobbies, at least give me a Diamond rank... don't place players in lobbies that aren't even reflective of their "rank"! If I don't belong in Silver lobbies, then I'll easily climb out of it... LIKE HOW RANKED SHOULD WORK.

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      NerfMyAimPlz
      3 years ago

      @Oppos21 

      Actually, most big competitive games do match their matches based on ELO and not specifically player ranks but the difference between Apex and said other games is that the actual correlation in skills and ELO is weak in Apex, probably even weaker than it was before the changes since you now can gain ELO just by standing outside in the circle and craft medkits. If this correlation was strong, you would want to as fast as possible increase your ELO, thus getting matched with higher ELO opponents thus climb faster in the ranks. But Respawn has failed miserably to implement this properly 

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        NerfMyAimPlz
        3 years ago

        @Oppos21 

        I had no issues like that until I hit Silver 1. Now all my teammates and killer squads the last 4 games have been platinum and diamonds. Doesnt feel like the average skill level of my lobby is that different. As a matter of fact, I was struggling much more in Bronze (Bronze3 to Silver4 with 1.2 KD) but had it much easier in Silver (2+ KD). So what I wonder now is where are all the gold ranked hahaha?


        Update; I got wiped with -35 for two matches straight and the third match, my teammates were bronze3 and Bronze 2 (but I was ofc still silver1) Very strange matchmaking but once again: the average skill level of the players is just totally random. Respawn just failed with their main goal with the changes. There is even less correlation between rank and skill now.

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