News: Rank Demotion Is Not Happening

@KelRievermay i remind you that a lot of players are students/children ? They have quite a lot of time and the urge of climbing up ranks ...
i just wanted to prove you wrong when you said it would not be possible.
And i didnt say that ppl would do that in masses, but with such a big playerbase, there is at least one guy that might do it.

I heard about a guy who proved a point recently by ranking up very high on Crypto without making any kills, or very very few with a bad KDR.  A quick google search couldn't find it for me, I have to ask my friend for more details so I can post it.

@r1ggedgame Ok, internet hyperbole, but I kind of assert it really is impossible as in, nobody has done it far as I can tell.  Even if it is possible, that number has to be so small as to be insignificant.

But when people talk about it, they talk about it like there's a whole bunch of players who got to platinum that way.  And it falls along the lines of things like how, 'all those platinum players are bad', you know, with no thought to that they could be the bad players themselves.

Every single person I've played with or know, far as I can tell, got plenty of kills on their way up.  It's more a matter of that some people play differently than others, and bad decisions often get made.  That's far more plausible than the myth of hiding until you are platinum

@KelRieverdidnt say that its done by a lot of ppl, just wanted to point out that it is likely possible for smb who puts effort into it.
but you are very right with different types of approaching the goal of winning, 10 teams hot dropping on a small place with loot for maybe 2 teams is a bad idea to begin with, but ppl still drop that way ... even if you tell them not to ... which eventually leads to rat-ish behavior.
Drops with a person that is low tier lvl, should not be in the area where all the fancy divetrails go ... but jumpmasters keep ignoring that, they just drop where their favourite spots are.

@hayhor Well part of the point was that with Crypto you don't have to shoot your gun very much if your team mates are good and you are skilled with the drone, with KP being the same for kills or assists.  I really hope he can give me a detail or two with which to find the story.

Diamond is kind of boring so far.  Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad since I could drop back to a more interesting rank 

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@hayhor wrote:
@pandareno1999We've had forumers who said their kds were .6 and they make diamond. It blew my mind at the time but if they position well and have the time I guess anythings possible.

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As of right now most of the people who have K/D 1+ has this because they quit before they smacked. Having 0.6 K/D means nothing, I have no idea why K/D is a part of any stat in this game that people actually cares about, in CS or other games where solo performance is key it has meaning while in Apex if you have fun dropping hot to practice something in pubs you will destroy your own K/D in no time. Right now the stat has no meaning as anyone can have over 1K/D just by making sure you quit before you are downed completely however bad you are.

Same your role on the team might carry you 0.4 K/D but still you got 2.8 A/D (assist/death ratio), so it really dont mean diddle 😉 MMR should definitively not be a whole lot based on this stat as it does nothing to describe how good you are.

@hayhor Yes, I agree.  It would be even more approved smurfing.

But I'm just saying since the decision isn't up to me, you better believe I'd take advantage of it, if it is allowed.

Rank protection is the > good, or < evil.

@BaldWraithSimp silver 2 to Diamond 4 can be done in less than 24 days 😉

Watching streams many quit before it counts esp in pubs where it's normal to mess up your kd. Also as I mentioned in another thread K/D might not be applicable as you might have like 3 in A/D as a secondary breacher I mostly supply damage and my primary breacher keep stealing the kills, I get the same points so I dont really care. But fact is and I see this a lot i pubs with people quitting if they see they loosing the fight, for instance last night landing fight I got no weapon only an arc star so I stuck a watson, took 1 second and he quit before even downed. I see this several times a day, especially streamers quitting fast on drop.