Ranked? Why am I going up against Diamonds and Predators in Platinum 4?

otherway around it is annoying aswell.

I am Diamond but i get teamed up with gold and platinum, too play against other Diamonds. Its a pain.

SBMM is completely f** up or the player base has gone so low ranked games with same rank is going to take ages too start.

@hhnbbfggty66I played on my brother's gold acct to lvl up his battle pass, and the skill difference between gold and platinum is a joke. Due to the low player base of plats, diamonds, and preds they all get thrown into a match together making the skill jump from gold to plat ridiculous, and making the whole idea of ranked worthless.

I am in Platinum IV and was matchmade with a player in Master that was wallhacking and had aimbot which was boosting two other players in Diamond. I recorded it and reported it.

I think the matchmaking system is fundamentally flawed and this on top is dilluting the ranking system to a point where you cant take it seriously anymore.

Everybody are suddenly better than a E-sport player. Maybe that's wrong with Apex now. 

(Plat ranked.)

I believe they designed the ranking system based on having only a few at the top (about 500 players) so that Apex Legends can have a respected reputation as a competetive game within the e-sports scene which EA is pushing widely.

They achieve this by having the point system increasingly penalizing.

I think the lower brackets are too easy to rank up so the result is that "everyone" pool up in platinum and diamond.

This system becomes very vulnerable to cheaters because it is easily inflated.

Lets say you have 0,05% cheaters and 1 million players, thats 500 players and basically the whole playerbase of the upper ranks.

These players can hold highly organized skilled teams down having them pool up with casuals in lower brackets, so you end up with a bad mix of players where they normally would expect a slower progression ranking up, now experience a full stop in progression.