Increase the minimum level requirement for Ranked

If they did raise the level requirement for ranked, they'd also need to address the current problems with mixed-squad matchmaking.

As soon as you reach Diamond, you simply cannot play ranked with your Platinum-ranked friends because you're pulling them into lobbies stacked with Apex Predators.

The current workaround is to have a 2ndary lower ranked smurf account that you utilise when playing with your Platinum-ranked friends.

Raising the minimum level requirement for ranked would block this workaround, breaking friend groups along rank boundaries.

I'd suggest the following solution:

- When queuing, you get to choose which ranked queue you go into.

- If you enter a ranked lobby that's lower than your account rank, you can neither win nor lose ranked points.

e,g,

You are Diamond.

Friend 1 is Platinum

Friend 2 is Gold.

You choose to play in a Gold-ranked lobby.

You are Diamond; you can neither win nor lose ranked points.

Friend 1 is Platinum, they can neither win nor lose ranked points.

Only Friend 2 can earn ranked points.

For your next match you choose to play in a Diamond-ranked lobby.

All 3 of you can earn points.

This would allow friends to continue to play ranked together, without the the need for smurf accounts.

It wouldn't make account boosting any more, or less, prevalent than is already possible with smurf accounts.