Matchmaking optimized for minimum engagement?
I’m an average player with a 0.7 K/D. When I’m matched into mid-skill lobbies, Apex is fantastic. But why does matchmaking insist on dumping me into top 5% lobbies where I clearly don’t belong? Every game showed that I am the absolute top of the skill curve, where I clearly don't belong..
At the start of the season, I slogged through 100+ matches - weeks of instant deaths in the top tier skill lobbies - just to tank my K/D to 0.4 and finally get fair matches. Every game went the same: land, get instantly wiped by someone with 10x my stats. I have 3,000 lifetime kills; the champion banners show people with 100,000.
Finally, I started having fun again - until the midseason update. Now I’m back in sweat lobbies, getting deleted in milliseconds. I refuse to grind through that misery again. I’ve quit for now.
Why is the system designed this way? It feels like average players are used as cannon fodder so high-skill players can farm 20-bombs. I love this game—probably my favorite ever - but it’s like the devs are doing everything possible to push players like me away.
Does anyone have any advice how to be fairly matched quick, without having to spend weeks as cannon-fodder in the top 95th percentile? Maybe I just land solo away from my group and let myself die immediately and get my k/d as close to 0.1 as fast as possible, I guess I can cut the time it takes to get matched correctly down from 2 weeks to a few days?
