New update takes away Champion circle

Absolutely need a winner's circle. 

SeraphinaTate​ Are you talking about the end of the match where the winning team is on the podium?

Champion screen was an Apex hallmark.

Used to be nice to see your banner and hear your voice line. I used to get a kick out of being the champion and winning back to back matches. We'll never hear "the champion has been eliminated" again, in Ranked. 😢 

Hate to see it go. 

Tough. 

eldercitizen wrote:

Used to be nice to see your banner and hear your voice line. I used to get a kick out of being the champion and winning back to back matches. We'll never hear "the champion has been eliminated" again, in Ranked.

Ah... its the game's champion screen from the start of the match, (honestly, I didn't even notice it was gone).

Well Midnight.... you don't need a champion's screen because you're already a champion. 🏆🏆🏆

But for us aspiring champions we want our screen back!!! 😡😂

eldercitizen wrote:

Well Midnight.... you don't need a champion's screen because you're already a champion.

eldercitizen​ Hero*, but I get your point.

eldercitizen wrote:

But for us aspiring champions we want our screen back!!!

As for the reason, the patch notes basically reads "we don't want players to be discouraged by the stats and badges of the champion squad"

However, this change comes across to me as:

"People complained about getting high ranked and no-life players in their matches, so we're hiding that fact"

Which doing so makes no sense as it removes part of Apex's identity, (being THE champion).

Furthermore, if Respawn makes a new system, it is bound to fail because as anyone who've seen the leaderboards during Ranked Rumble can tell you, players can and will use cheats and/or exploits to climb to the absolute top anyways.

So in short:

Respawn, just put the champion screen back or rework the champion screen to where it hides the player's badges, stats, (and even their banner frames), because then no one will see something like this:

Rather they would see:

and now suddenly, ahhh, a lot less "intimidating", (and also rework the matchmaking and remove badges and stats from those who didn't actually earn them).

I used to think players with hard to get badges and crazy stats were really good, but Respawn had really let the value of these badges and stats go.

Lastly, this removal is as lame as when they "fixed" Wattson's Easter Egg emote, (where Wattson could no longer place the Nessie on her teammate's hitboxes, (which did absolutely nothing to block enemy gun fire and made the emote fun to use)), and even lamer than when they removed the ability to emote while moving, (which yes, was a thing).

Game lobbies are getting smaller and smaller and less ballanced. EA is prob tired of "pred in my plat lobbies" posts.  Champion screen doesnt matter. People gonna get discouraged mid match when they see who killed them...

Personally, I think it was fine the way it was.

Badges and stat cards are apart of the game. What's the point of having them if players can't display them?

I get that players can be intimidated, but overall it's just a video game. 🤷‍♂️

P.S. - You can be a Hero and a Champion simultaneously. 😉

Since feedback on this topic was formally requested in patch notes I’ll say that I liked having “Champion Squad” screen and would prefer to get it back. Seeing another team with nice badges wasn’t causing me any concerns (it’s just one trio out of 20 and most likely I’ll never meet them), while seeing that I’ve got a teammate who is a champion was very encouraging (I’m solo queuing for Ranked Leagues). Also, I feel like when I end up being a champion, my teammates are putting more trust in me, which makes IGLing a bit easier.

Exactly 💯 

I would always pass jumpmaster to my champion teammate to be courteous.