The problem with the abandon penalty in apex.

@ExtremejinksI left a match of ranked intentionally a few days ago. The teammates were just a really toxic duo. I finally had enough of it and just left the match. When I solo queue I almost always mute peoples mics now because of the verbal abuse you have to take. 

The abandonment penalty could be improved. If your teammate is more than let's say 100M away from your death box you should be able to leave the match free of a penalty. I have solo queued up into platinum so far. I can tell you right now, over half of my teammates have run at the first sign of an enemy. I don't know they are running and I often end up trying to 1vs3 the enemy or 2vs3 with our other teammate. The third we have is either watching with a sniper or already running for the other side of the map. Then there are the people who just run off solo anyways. So you're forced to sit there while the timer expires, yeah it's only 2 minutes or so. But why can't I just leave and queue into a match again?

You also get more than just the timer, you lose RP double the RP as well which is quite a bit in the higher skill lobbies.

I understand that they want to discourage leaving. But they give us no way to discourage being a bad teammate. They also have a really poor ranked system in general, which has lead to a TON of players making it into platinum who do not belong there. Platinum is nearly impossible to solo queue through right now. I've come very very close to platinum 3. But I'll get a string of bad teammates (not just talking about skill) and the RP is gone. Just tonight alone, I had at least 2 teams who were duos in a party on xbox. One was a person who was stuck in Platinum 4 and the other was a gold tier player. The gold Tier player would get dropped instantly in every fight we got into. If I was lucky the Platinum 4 player could take some attention off of me as I picked off the enemy players 1 by 1.

I have tried making the looking for groups and run into this big issue. I often have to play on servers that are not great for me. One duo I joined were on the London Server, how am I supposed to play with 190 ping?! I couldn't even climb walls the lag was so bad. I put a post in the looking for teammates on the Oregon servers. I went through 6 people, all of which were stuck in Platinum 4. I can't play with most of my friends at the moment, most don't grind ranked and are bronze. Every fight we would get into, I would down someone they would come running up and get melted by remaining 2 enemies.

People say the ping does not matter, but it's a huge difference for me.