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5 years ago

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Why am I not improving in apex

Hey I'm just wondering why I'm not improving in apex in the way that I want to. I have been playing apex since season 6 and I have always wanted to do my best and improve in everything like in gun re...

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hayhor
5 years ago
@InkBlaze02 From what you have said you have spent a lot of time learning how to kill people. That is really only half the game. The other half is understanding how to get out of fights and rotate/play the circle.

Solid_EXC

5 years ago

I think the more important thing is the positioning of the fights

Sometimes you can do that and some fights dont give you a chance.

But if you whant to try, try get cover from the others 2 enemies and fight with only one at a time.

Its better play Rankeds than BR to do that.

And dont pick from the same side twice.

Get angles

Greets

KelRiever
5 years ago
I know people don't like when I say this, but not only am I a proponent of playing alone, I believe if you play alone you will become a better player.
Even if you play with a team, after playing alone, you'll be a better anchor for your team. Though likely your team mates will get you killed much faster.
- hayhor
  Hero
  5 years ago
  @KelRiever I actually agree with you a bit. I started playing more alone if my randoms just do whatever and I feel like I improved and help my friend more now.
- e1b2b41da38ee689
  Seasoned Ace
  5 years ago
  @KelRiever in my experience such an approach might improve/will improve player's mechanical skills, yet they are not a very good teammates as they usually can only play in a format "you all follow me/do what I say". I personally see this trait a lot in Master level players - they are very good at shooting, positioning in the fight but usually have very limited comms and frustrate teammates including myself by making us guess/mindread what they are doing. Yet if a person is already good at support style this is definitely a viable tactics to work on.
  
  @InkBlaze02 you need to watch them all as all aspects of the game are important - guns, mechanics, positioning in the fights, rotations, movement, etc.
  
  Also, you mentioned kill/death ratio of 1.0 - it is actually in my opinion a very good stat, high benchmark for gold/plat players, especially in ranked. Think about it - if you have k/d = 1.0 or higher it means that you win at least 50% of your 1v1, including cases where you face 1v2 and 1v3 yet manage to kill at least one enemy even if you go down afterward. And I want to add that given how Apex assigns kills = last player to shoot an enemy before he/she is knocked down, k/d ratio is very vague skill stat as e.g. who is a better player one that does 149 damage yet gets knocked down or one that does 1 damage and knocks down already pretty much dead enemy...e.g. I have reached d4 level now and I play more like a support player - I don't care about stats and KP/RP that much, I like to have a good game and win. Also, I hate killing knocked down players while his/her teammates are still alive and shooting at my team = sometimes I miss out on the kills because of that. And my K/D has not been higher than 0.6.
  
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