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7Micael7's avatar
4 years ago

Real reason u got tilted: matckmaking system

Hi everyone, im gonna try to give u an explanation on how matchmaking works (from my experience 1000h player pred s3 and master s8) in apex and why its builded in a way can make u mad

First: in ranked and pubs matchmaking works different

Pubs: The only discrimination is the skill level. There are 2 kind of lobby: 1 for the beginner, 1 for who is decent player till skillest one(don t know if there s an intermediate lobby but i don't think). There' s no difference if u play nofill, solo, duos or u're 3 stacks, EVERYBODY got putted in the same lobby. AND THATS THE REAL PROBLEM. And thats the problem cause the game are telling u the best way to play pubs its 3 stacking if u re skilled. 3 stacks against a squad composed by 3 solo or 1 solo and a duos teams its the much unfair fights u can offered to players. No talking about 3 stacks pred or master that have litterally road cleared to make whetever they want. Just watch the skillest player like Taisheen  playing no fill game in pubs: they re not chilling they have to tryhard, using crazy movement,buildings and vertical zipline most of the time to compansate the gap. In open field they have to make miracle, they die most of the time against 3 stacks good teams and we re talking about best players in the game. And this happens cause the priority in the game its the queue waiting times. Translate: quantity over quality. You die immedialtly, got new match immediatly and the toxic circle continue to the infinity.
Ranked: here the matchmaking its different. U got matched with people of your same rank or at maximum 1 rank above. There's a discrimination between solo queue or 3 stacks/pre made teams. they have separate lobbies. BUT there's an ecception: if u re a duos(premade teams of 2 people),the one who're gonna fill your squad have to be a soloq player and this kind of team gonna play against premade teams most of what are 3 stacks. And in ranked u can play with and against console player and people with 1 ranked above, but this happens only if someone bring them in the lobby as friends. So most of the time soloq player got matched in squad with a duos :1 from pc on your same ranked and his friend from console 1 ranked above*! And thats crazly unfair in particular if ure diamond. Also if they re both from pc and with your same rank its worst scenario against 3 stacks.
Conclusion: in pubs problem are 3 stacking caused by no separation between premade team and soloq players. SOLUTION: put 3 stacks against 3 stacks so if ure a good player u have to play alone to do your best in pubs. Negative effect: u will have a little bit of waiting time in queue.
Ranked in general are better builded than pubs and till diamond the quality of game its pretty decent. Thats also the reason why people smurfing. If u get diamond and u wanna have some chills games without 3 stacking u can only smurf cause also platinum lobbies are easiest than a pubs. And that should make us think: have any sense that ranked are easier than pubs? its a short circuit!. Anyway here the problem are DUOS squad. They should not be allowed to play in ranked or at least players should have opportunity to choose if they wanna be a filler for duos squad or not.

 *cross platform works only in the way console player can play in pc lobby being brought there by pc player friends, not in the opposite direction(pc player can t play in console lobby)

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