SBMM Makes Zero Sense

@RelentlessShiba queuing in a pre-made makes SBMM more aggressive. You get harder matches because you're doing what the Apex devs want you to do, AKA, queue in squads with friends. Why is this? Beats me. SBMM just caters to the lowest skill casual players, and before it was publicly introduced in S3, any threads that were for SBMM always started with, "I play casually, it's not fair I'm getting stomped on! But I also reveal unintentionally that I have 0 time / effort / motivation to actually be good at the game, I just want the devs to feed me easy matches because its not fair uwu." 

High skill players will only play against high skill players, so every match is basically a tournament for them. Average skill players get flip flopped between too easy matches, and way too difficult ones. Low skill players for the most part get coddled by SBMM, but then it'll also auto-fill them into average / high skill games because...reasons? 

A lot of people have expressed your sentiments regarding SBMM, it's not fun for people, it's makes it so that high skill players can't play with your friends, purposely filling you into lobbies that you're clearly not prepared for. But of course, Respawn doesn't care. Regardless of how many people speak out about it, casual, pro, streamer, etc. etc. it's here to stay. Which blows because you'd think that a game dev that wants to create something that'll last for a long time, would listen to what a significant majority of their player-base wants. You ever notice that no one has good things to say about it, except for the people who're coddled by it? A majority of whatever pros we have left hate it, content creators hate it, a lot of average skill players hate it, guess who doesn't? 

My opinion of SBMM hasn't changed in 5 seasons now. It is the participation medal of online matchmaking. It is the equivalent of me telling you, I'm going to go and fist-fight a bear, but I'm not going to do any training at all. No learning martial arts, no weight training, nothing. I go off, I get mauled within an inch of my life, I get to the hospital and I say to you, "It's not fair that I almost died!"

I really hate it man. Im gettin constantly paired with 2 noobs almost every match i play. And im very very tired. Im not a predator, i can sometimes beat a full trio by myself but not always and the game must think i can lead 2 completely bots to victory every match i play.

Very tired of playing with guys who get downed in the first fight we find with 30 damage each.

@pastaclown

The worst part is that people think that it’s “fair”, while totally missing the point that the game changes when you drop an entire curated group of high skilled players into the same lobby. It’s pure stress. This is fun for ranked but not every game.

“Fair”. You know what’s technically the most “fair”? Putting people into random lobbies after a certain experience level is reached. Want to win more consistently? Practice.

@Axs5626Sxa5001 Pretty much. I have sympathy for people who just have 0 time to practice because of outside responsibilities, but none for people who simply just don't practice and cry wolf.