Ranked system is completely flawed
The ranked system is good compared to other games we've seen in the past but it has huge flaws that make players that deserve a high rank not get it as fast as they would, have the ranked system been better. There's most likely also cases where people don't have enough time to play the game all day just to then climb to their skill level. A good rubric of measurement should be, how long would it take a diamond player to get back into diamond alone not grouped if given 2 hours of play every day.
You need to be rewarded for skill. There's 3 major issues with the ranked system. One is that assists that have HUGE impact simply do not get counted as an assist and knockdowns as in a kill do not count towards anything... You also cap out the number of assists/kills at 5. By apex's logic. 15 kills does not equal 15 kills. 5 kills for 3 games in a row counts as a lot meanwhile if I got 10 kills in one game, 0 in the other, and 5 in the other then I'd have 1/3 my points than if I were to get 5 kills 5 kills 5 kills. Not having a cap would allow for you to redeem yourself. If you had 3 bad starts in a row but then you pop off and get 10 kills then you should be rewarded for doing very well.
Also knockdowns matter. You know how we all know? If you were fighting 3v3 vs a squad and someone third party sniped at you guys fighting, what would have more of an impact? The 3rd partiers KILLING one of you as in a knockdown OR one of the third partiers just picking off one of you after you're already dead.. We all know the answer and yet the less impactful one gets rewarded.
Example of knockdowns not counting. And how they negatively impact players. I was playing and I killed 2 people with barely any ammo etc it was a long fight and my 2 teammates were cowering in a house; scared. As the last guy revives his teammates I ended up killing him but he managed to revive his teamate. That's 3 kills in everyone terminology. Another squad then shoots at me and I have to back off because I have 1 bullet to a sniper left. I deserved 3 kills and yet I got 0 points. You should get at least something. This also helps to negate how much of an effect * teammates could have on you.
As for the assist system being trash. If I do 160 damage to someone and they DO NOT heal and then they get poped off 4 seconds later I will not have the assist even though I did the huge majority of the damage to the player. But a less impactful assist like as they're dying anyway someone lobs in 10 damage, they get rewarded with an assist.
The only thing holding the ranked system up is that it's an fps so you can have a pretty high impact on winning because you can * on 2 kids in a squad and carry them. If we were to fix some of these issues that would manage to make the ranked system pretty decent and not have the nature of an fps being the only thing holding it up.
