Solo que rank

@E9ine_AC Shiv doesn't get RP every game lol.

He went from nearly D1 to D4 in the space of a day just this season but the advantage he has is he can play all day every single day.

I have tried to solo pred and can only manage roughly half of D2 but that's literally w key into every fight without camping and playing it casually with team mates that can't leave. I have a job (not streaming) and 2 kids so i just haven't got the time to invest into it. People say it's impossible to climb pred solo but i know many who have done it.  I personally wouldn't want to go through the stress and camp for RP if i get a few kills on drop which is why i've always pushed for kills to take priority over placement.

I would also argue that it was harder previous seasons. While i agree the majority are better players and have improved over time, all the pros and cream at the top of the milk players left this game because in the world of competitive fps, Apex is trash. From dodgy audio, crap servers, unresponsive devs, poor payout, lower skill ceiling ect ect ect. The list just goes on. 

@E9ine_ACI find after diamond is easier with ranks being mixed you can still be in D3+ teamed or fighting plats/golds or even silver at times whereas it wasn't like that before when you got to D4 it hit you hard with the premades. I just played a couple of silver rounds and yea it felt a fair bit tougher than before with the amount of smurfs and such.

I agree though that if you have the time and dedication you can do it but i've always been a believer that you can do anything you put your mind to.

Mind over matter as they say.

Shame they ruined ranked, mixed the tiers, left the games major issues and tight with rewards as competitive could have been something really worth going for.

soloque means only d3-masters, anything below d3 is easier then pubs match and cannot be even discussed with players who havent soloed to masters and shiv feeds most of the games off when doing it. difference is that he is streamer with lot of viewers. when he goes online and hit's up queue, predator teams that wanna play with celebrity will duoq at the same time and almost always land on the same team with him, thus eloboosting him. once shiv gets master, he will stay at bottom point until the end of season when soloing just feeding points away

@tziiwareAs much as i agree he's hard stuck master and doesn't gain much RP after ranking up, I do know a few who got pred solo.

Got pred solo basically means being kinda lucky early of the season to hit masters fast, but i dont know any confirmed cases of a player who actually managed to retain predator as solo player for entire season because it needs points. there is really no reason to assume peoples can hit predator solos outside of very early season.

Im in top 0.5% wraith wins from season 1 when i played in trio with top 50 predator player for few hundred games, and i must say there is nothing a single good solo player was ever able to do to kill us unless there was insane rng involved. we won like 200 games with 15 game winstreak and only a good team was a threat (wich back then involved basically base tank, flanker and freebie back then)

also i think he soloes with hes account shivfps (the main) and he was like d2 in stream week a go and dropped to d3, then he was three stacking at d3-d2 so not full solo either

@tziiwareMaster and pred are the same with just more game time.

Unlike S2 (pre master) where the majority of those climbing diamond were premade (excluding the very best who managed to after long tedious grinds), with the decline of both the player base and competitive players the rank mix now means it's much easier to solo. This can be manipulated with time + server selection, exploits, teaming and a host of other things i won't go into on this forum. Ranked has been a sham since S3 with alt f4 exploit, just look at S4 diamond/pred when it returned to S2 level compared to S5 and why i said earlier that it's not more people getting better but it's more people having the knowledge to fudge the system.

Sure there may be some kids who want to show up on his stream but i and many friends have grouped up with him multiple times in ranked and he's just an average jo that can pull his weight and streams for a living.