New update takes away Champion circle

It was also satisfying realizing that my team eliminated the Champion player/team, especially endgame. 

I do miss seeing the Champion screen in Ranked 😥 I came across it playing Bot Royale.

I actually thought it represented the best player and team well, most matches.

The only drawback was that it made players Champion when they had done well in a separate game mode. 

I remember running into Champion players/teams endgame in Ranked and thinking "that's them, let's go get'em" 😡 Sometimes, those players/teams won the match. 

When I first started playing Apex it was the banners that caught my attention first and then realizing I could be up there for the whole lobby to see. Now the in-game banners are for the kill leader only in Ranked. 

Hopefully the Champion screen gets put back into Ranked soon. 

Only fools and newbies of the game will not see this change as clear as change to "rank distribution" bar before the games = Respawn is just actively masking their matchmaking that is tailored towards higher ranked players having field day in lower ranked lobbies, not matching Preds vs Preds but giving them D4 and even Plats.

Same with champion - remove it, so people do see that Pred 3stack is in your lobby time and time again and winning game after game. Which will become obvious anyways after they kill you given their 15+ kill/game streak.

This is disgusting! Instead of reverting Preds back to situation where Pred lobbies contain only Pred teams and took 10-15 min to matchmake and leave mortals out of the mix, you just "hide" the obvious rigged system.

Honestly would spit in the face of a person who made all of these changes and f-up ranked since then.

p.s. not sure who is discouraged given how many profiles are not bought and sold. AKA is it better to know that there is "ex Pred" in your lobby (that theoretically should be based on MMR = his current skill matches your current skill... trying not to laugh while writing this) and still win him in 1v1 vs not having that info and get owned by some low level smurf with cheats running servers for the day... go figure. Banners is not an issue, matchmaking is!

Exactly 💯 

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

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.

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. 😉

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...

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).

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:

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).