Apex legends, skill-based matchmaking (rant)

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@Magic_pug_1010 wrote:

I’m just going to get straight to the point here Apex legends, skill based matchmaking sucks. I am currently silver and in my most recent game I got match make with a masters and a platinum. This also happens in pubs. me who is a level 170 (but really bad) will get put with a level 400 prestige skin wraith. I don’t mean to be a baby but this has gotten out of hand. Skill-based matchmaking doesn’t even feel like it’s implemented into the Apex servers. I guarantee respawn or EA will even see this let alone do something about it but I’m sick of going against players three times my skill level and can’t imagine what it would be like for somebody just starting Apex

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Kinda sounds like skill-based matchmaking is what you actually want. If you're going against people that are much higher skill level then yourself, then the lobbies are just being filled based on connection.

People always treat SBMM like it's the boogie man or something. The ONLY people that don't want it are YouTuber's and Streamers. They want the ability to connect to bot lobbies and drop some big kill streaks for their viewers.

SBMM is a good thing, and is necessary for people to have a somewhat fair experience. Ranked is SBMM, and it's by far the best mode in the game.

this makes more sense now that I understand the process. and I agree that it would be incredibly hard to find a lobby for the skill of everybody in your squad. Let alone the whole entire lobby. Definitely helps. is there anything I can do to try to improve skill matchmaking in my servers?

@Magic_pug_1010

"is there anything I can do to try to improve skill matchmaking in my servers?"

Matchmaking will be better (which is not to say "good") at peak times. So avoid playing in the middle of the night.

You have the ability to choose servers based on geography - U.S. servers are typically the best populated and that also puts sbmm in the best light.

Avoid playing with friends. Contrary to popular logic, I know, but when you team up with people then you're essentially telling sbmm to step it up because you're ready for tougher lobbies.

Lastly - very unpopular opinion inbound - don't try too hard with this game. Everything you do that demonstrates the willingness to sweat guarantees progressively tougher lobbies. If the system sees your win rate, kill rate, k/d, or even damage numbers, starting to look good then it will think it's going too easy on you. Try less hard. Conventional wisdom says you leave a match by dying or winning, but there is another way out and you should use it liberally whenever you find yourself in a suspicious situation. Iffy teammates, hyper-aggressive enemies, bad position, bad ring close, anything at all. The more you tell the system that you're intolerant then the less it will ask you to tolerate. Not the way anyone imagines playing the game, but managing sbmm is a game in itself. Learn to play it.

I know I'm late to this post but I 100% agree I was just playing with my friend (lvl 80ish) and In level 70. Ive played ranked once and lost instantly but I have been playing against preds that are level 350 and just people that are over level 200 that have hundreds of apex kills and I only have 150 and Ive normally played arena back then but sense its removed I started playing br and I just annoying that the games been out for how long and there is not a decent or even a working skilled base matchmaking