The Ongoing Smurphing/Cheating Issues

@OldTreeCreeper 

You have to look at your ranked journey as a series of matches and gaining or losing RPs over all these matches, and not judge the entire ranked system over those 1/10 matches that is totally unfair.  I mean for starters, you seem to only remember the unfair matches and forget all those matches where YOU were among the top ranked in that lobby.   

Just like I said before; how can you say the entire system is broken when many player who also are "not of a pred or master standard" manage to get out of your rank? Perhaps your current rank is your peak rank? Nothing to be ashamed over. There is also the possibility that you lack in certain aspect of your skill set as an Apex player and therefore hit a brick wall instead of "gradually" start to struggle. I see it all the time; players in silver/gold who hide the entire match to maximize the placement RP gain and therefore keep advacing through the ranks without gaining matching fighting skills. Then they reach Platinum where the RP cost takes a leap and hiding is a much less effective strategy to gain RPs and they find themselves in a Plat lobby with Platinum level hiding skills but actual silver fighting skills. Thats why I always tell my frriends NOT to rush through the low rank lobbies. Play aggressively and get your RPs from fighting so you dont fall behind in fighting skills as you rank up.

So what I mean is that the ranked system, specifically the RP gain vs RP cost ratio is designed to compensate for lobbies of player of wider skills than in games like CS and LoL for instance. So you cant really blame the system. You can for sure have opinions how unfun it is but in the end, everyone play under the same rules.