This is how I felt but then I started to just say to myself "you can only get better if you play people better than you." The first few weeks of the season have been awful to be honest but I can literally feel myself getting better in decision making and aim overall
You are better than you realize. When I coach players almost everyone is on a good path forward. Its just the matchmaking can make you not notice your gains. Its where the fun can genuinely get ruined. But I hope its reassuring that everyone is having this issue.
@@dylangarcia0407 I play exclusively with a guy who’s way better than me so I’m sure that doesn’t help my SBMM. I drag the team down for sure, but we win sometimes and we’re still having a blast!
I knew this was coming and how Season 18 would be quite a shift overall. I am NOT going to say I told the community. I urged using prior season as a training arc. But now we are in Season 18, and things are more difficult. We discussed cheaters in a prior video. But with a any harder system, people will do whatever they can to win. There is positives within this season and I remain optimistic of the future of Apex Legends overall though!
bro thank you. I took 2 seasons off after playing every single day and grinding. When I got back, I felt like a brand new player. Its been rough and I'm still learning but thank you for the confidence boost.
Thanks dude, my mates keep on piling on me, saying that I was too tactical for wanting to make rotations out of a fight and getting to zone, thanks chum
@@3ildcardthat’s the part. Idk why randoms feel the need to try to win the most unlogical fights.. like is dying a badge of honor to them? I have to get used to just playing my life more cause I do try to Rez or respawn if I can but most times it’s not worth it
Thanks dude, I've felt like a bum after not being able to perform as well as before. It is significantly harder to get kills, everyone moves faster and the enemies are getting better and it feels like the SBMM is punishing me because I was performing well in the past, thanks for this video dude, I can feel a bit better about myself and keep on grinding to be a better player
The only thing I absolutely hate about this season, is the amount of disconnected servers on mixtape… I don’t know if the servers are just crap, or if they’re being DDOS’ed … it happens about 3-4 matches every hour or so…
Jesus is the only way to heaven Being a good person won’t get you there. “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 ESV Repent from your sin(disobedience to God) and turn to God and follow Him so that you will be saved “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9 ESV “No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.” Luke 13:3 ESV..
Tip on mantle jumping that I've found made me way more consistent is to hold both W and your interact key and when you start to mantle the edge, quickly switch your finger from W to S or crouch and then scroll wheel down
Dazs, thank you so much for making this video!! I come to Apex from playing competitve Fortnite for 3 years and I know how important prioritizing zone is. I have to keep yelling at my teammates on Apex to move to zone with me but it’s so hard to keep an Octane and now a newly Rev to not push multiple teams only to get 4th partied. You have spoken my words and feelings on Apex Legends right now and you have a new humble subscriber!
While most of what you're saying may be true, most of us just want a fun game to get on a frag out for a couple hours a night, not be put through the meat grinder. And apex is proving less and less to be that game. Even mixtape has been incredibly sweaty this season and that should be the mode to just go and turn your brain off.
online shooter's aren't for bedtime, there's a nice game called stray, jumpin about as a cat, that's made for turning your brain off, ....apex isn't lol, I get what your sayin though
@_SUPERN0VA_ Do you even understand what competitive games/battle royal games mean and why most of the casuals enjoy playing it even in their little free times? Do you think a br/shooter game is like watching a movie to chill? Why do you even play the game if you dont have the competitiveness/skill learning thirst in you? You could have chosen some other story games. Not talking about fps players who play the game for a career or money, talking about casual players who have that competitive fire in their mindset. These casuals dont have much time to play the game but would train hard the little time they get, to continuously improve and feel the accomplishment of learning things in their boundary. It reflects their real life skill learning curve to be better and competent in their goals. Me, for example, a casual player with full time job who play the game for few hours in weekends, try my best to be as good as possible within time limit, because it has something to learn and "one more thing to be good at", along with real life stuffs. When I need to chill at night, I watch a movie with my partner. But fps games are certainly not what you think of. Nevertheless, calling people fatsos for whatever, very poorly reflects your competency in real life as well. Have a good day.
@@serendiggiity6506 if you're playing a ranked game and you're ranked silver, you shouldn't be playing people ranked Pred. That literally defeats the purpose for ranks
i v much disagree with this statement. so many ppl soloq, and their rank is just sabotaged by lower skilled players, where if they had similar skilled/ more strategic teammates they could be plat or diamond but because they keep getting those teammates who choose to land on half the lobby, they can’t climb in such a harsh system but somehow still get 4 kills and 1k damage solo at a hot drop before dying in 12th place and then going negative
i think its perspective i feel like you can get really good at apex if u just focus on movement and Ur aim comes along with it movement also allows you to think of what you want to do in an engagement that's how i use movement i use it as a guide for my fights and seeing multiple entries and disengagements in my fights that's why i win so many fights because i think a lot about my area and my cover and how i can get to places faster then my opponent and how fast can i throw them off for my team
You dont know how much ive been stressing GO TO ZONE on my random teammates. HOLY. Just playing the first few hours when this season came out made me quickly realize that the meta this season is to go to zone. Its so important im glad youre emphasizing it
Went on apex after watching this video and performed really well, just got a 9 kill game, and felt like my confidence was way more boosted than it normally is.
The only thing I've found to beat the masters/preds, as a high plat/low diamond player, is to always find yourself being the bread of the sandwich. You never want to be the meat in the sandwich. By being the bread I mean hugging the ring, staying close together, rotating early while staying out of the center of the next ring, (and possibly the most important part) keeping a low profile until the whole team is ready to act. It's hard to keep track of everything at all times but it's also extremely rewarding when your team listens to your pings and gets the dubb. Really makes you feel like a IGL
My personal expectation that helps me enjoy the game more is "Im probably goijg to die in the first engagement" so when it happens i dont get mad, but if it doesn't, then im pleasantly surprised and everything afyer that is gravy
I started playing this on the switch, and I was never the best apex player, but as a level 3 on a switch, I was getting games against preds 😅 maybe try again next season
Im constantly trying to rethink and re analyze games i lose while i wait for my queue to pop, and all ive actually learned from trying to do this is that i have no clue what im doing, or what im supposed to be doing, and the only conclusion i can ever come to is "well i obviously shouldnt have missed 3 full clips while theyre 15m from me" and "i probably could have had a better position?" but even thinking i could have had better positioning, i never really understand how or why a "better position" is better. Ive started fights thinking i was gonna roll because i had much better positioning, and then after 15 seconds im getting dropped on my all three of the enemies at the same exact millisecond, and i cant even escape to a new position because im playing a touhou bullet hell 💀 except all the bullets are spawning 5 pixels away from my hitbox. even if my braincells try to properly fire and tell me to go for a walljump for cool man get away tactics, as soon as i go for the slide a bullet hits me and i dead slide and im just crouching at my enemies, perfectly leveled for them to grab me by the back of the head and absoLUTELY SKULL RAIL ME. I get on the game because i enjoy getting better at movement, because its so fun to be good at, but then the moment i actually get into the game i realize i literally CANNOT compete, and i get off the game feeling so feint and empty inside, so upset with myself, and genuinely wanting to unalive myself, like, its so bad. like omg, its actually so bad
Remember it’s just a game man. I’m working on my movement too, one thing that’s definitely taken my game to the next level for me is ALCs idk if u use them but the default setting makes aiming way harder to me then I realized. This may also take some time to get it personally perfect but it’s worth it. Use mixtape to your advantage❤
Yeah, its just a game, a really fun game, that due to my personal skill in comparison to everyone else, im NOT ALLOWED to have fun playing :( gg go next, gg go next, gg go next, gg go next, gg go next, gg go next. I just want to have fun 😭 but even in for fun game modes everybody plays the shit like their actual life and careers depends on it
So many people just suck but have gotten dia/master a few times when they simply don‘t belong there! This season will put them in place again, and I love it!
I hope so, I don’t see people complaining about how easy ranked is anymore and now everyone is complaining about match making 😂😂😂 but i do want to see if these regular good players can still reach diamond masters
i'm of the opinion that videos like this are the reason i still make steady improvements in Apex, Thanks Dazs. Also whats the origin of your name "Dazs"? Its not one i've seen before
I went from holding a 4kd for a whole season, to having ~2.2kd with the new casual SBMM. Very jarring the way that pubs have changed. It's way worse when playing with friends as well.
I had a random running around with 0 shield, upon pinging multiple shield (stronger than his empty grey) he still didn’t pick any of them up. He was also level 300 so not a noob and this was in a diamond lobby, some people ARE bad.
Vod reviewing is what made my duo and me start recording the whole match instead of just the highlights. Being able to see our thoughts process (or lack there of) made us be a little better in our synergy tbh.
This season has been crazy unbalanced. S17 I could casually play pubs with randoms. Would wipe a squad or two, get killed and win about 1/10 games and occasionally run into really skilled / sweaty teams. Since the start of S18 8/10 teams I run into have almost perfect aim, and are playing as if they are training for professional competitive tournaments. Also my shield feel like they are made from paper. Same goes for TDM/GR/CTRL matches. People are just destroying me at range and my own weapons feel like they do 1/2 the damage compared to the previous season. I’m not one to give up, but until this gets fixed I decided to take a break from Apex. I’m not surprised the player count is at an all-time low atm.
season 18 is easier for alt accounts. my lvl 950 account this season has a kd or 0.6 and avg dmg of 310, my lvl 96 account this season has a kd of 1.5 with avg dmg of 505. (l only play solo q, last season on this lvl 96 account, kd was 0.8 with avg dmg 430 ) i didn't magically get better over night, it is my teammates this season magically are hella better, as you can see my kd this season on my alt account doubled then that of last season)..the only reason i can think of why this is so ...is that respawn is prioritizing newer accounts that don't have a lot of skins ....so ppl only buy stuff if they think they are good at the game , i.e this is a monetization move. they are trying to monetize off the new players from the last 3 seasons ...older account that has all the skins ....will not spend as much as newer accounts that does not have many skins .... just my thoughts
nah i tried to make a new account too and by level 3 i was already in full master/preds lobby lvl 600-800. the mm is worse on my new account than on my 2.7kda lvl 700. it just show how bad and stupid respawn devs are.
First 50 games of the season I had a 2.3kd, ~600avg damage, 12% win rate. Similar for my ranked placements and got silver 2. Around 75 games games in I got hit by a wall of insane players and it's been like that ever since in both pubs and ranked. Got down to a 1.6kd 5%wr 480 avg and took a break for a week. Separately, I think the second half of this season's stats are my worst ever, and I felt I was playing my best ever for the start. I think I fucked up and found myself in a bucket I don't truly belong in
Same. I was flying through ranked solo que and once i hit gold 2 i keep going in and out of gold 2 and 3. I’ll have one game with competent teammates and then 5 games where I’m sure my teammates only objective is to sue the very first chance they get.
Season 17 I had my best season ever my highest KD and just all around I was having so much fun. This season is the exact opposite, way too many 3 stackers in pubs which is what I mainly play. It is reassuring that everyone is having this issue though.
My kd went up after I turned off vsync in video settings and lost input lag it was holding me back so much and I didn't realize it. Also i started using movement more in fights 💪💪
What sucks is l quit for a year just to come back to the sweatiest lobbies I’ve ever played in that wasn’t past diamond 3, it’s hard getting back in the groove when pubs and ranked having to try as hard as l can not only fighting other teams but fighting with my own teammates wanting to make careless decisions that throw the game yelling at the team because we weren’t there to die with them, it’s always been bad with randoms but it’s even worse now because everybody thinks they have 200 iq game sense
My main frustration is that the "lobbies being balanced on your entire teams MMR rather than the highest player in the squad" update seems to have vaniushed off the face of the Earth. I've peaked at Diamond (Ignoring S17 ) and don't mind getting put in lobbys with Masters and the occasional Pred when my teammates are also around that MMR. But when I'm queing with my IRL friends who are Plat players (on a good day) I still get the same lobbies with 20bomb 4k triple masters teams. And now those lobbies extend to ranked even when we're still in bronze/silver. The fact you can face off against players that you wouldnt be able to queue up with is just laughable really.
Great vid Dazs, makes me feel understood since I switched from controller to MNK about a week ago and it was a struggle the first 3 days. A week in, my KD is pumping up (roller was 1.5, tanked to 1.26 when I switched, currently at 1.54) and I feel like I enjoy the game more. Also, can you make a video to learn how to mantle jump and maybe go more in-depth on Tap Strafing lol.
I just don’t get how they can make out that sbmm works, I don’t mind saying that in bad but I do enjoy this game. Highest I’ve ever got in ranked is plat 1, my kd is below 1 but ranked and pubs are full off preds or 20 bombers that I honestly don’t even have a chance ever.
I can’t lie, 75% of my games, I can apply these tips to. But as for the other 25%, I can’t seem to stop dropping on loot pills, or tarps on the ground that carry everything but a weapon, whereas my opponents get weapons and murder me instantly. I can’t over exaggerate this
When I think I'm improving, suddenly I got put with a teammate that don't know how to play, while all enemy team has player that can do neo strafing or even difficult movement
The harder it gets ,the more cheaters will come. This season is so different from the last one in the matter of difficulty. but the good side is that we are improving very fast now .
All I know is this is the first season since I started in season 2 where my KD is below a 1.00.... it's been hovering around 1.25-1.6 every season since season 3, peaking at a perfect 3 for season 15. But it's been downhill ever since. It feels like I just dont have it anymore and I'm routinely getting my butt kicked match after match. I have 1 single win so far this season and a trash KD. Feels like I'm going backwards the last few seasons and I'm not sure what else I can do without sinking time I no longer have into the game.
I would also like to add people please remember support legends can craft banners!! and if we are in your team you can too! don’t leave cos i leave a 1 v 3 (that you rushed into and got downed in )to go to a close crafter!! if the crafter is miles away i get it. let’s reset and take down the lobby!!
Tight matchmaking in pubs is literally the only thing I have an issue with. Ranked should always feel like a super competitive activity. Like playing in a sports league. But pubs should be like going to a public park and playing pickup games with random people. I’m sorry but I think people shouldn’t be expected to demonstrate the same amount of intensity at the park as to when they are playing in an actual tournament.
Dude I’ll have great games with a good squad and then get into matches back to back with people not doing anything still…. I had a game today where I had a couple kills with 1k damage and both my teammates had 180 and 140 damage like where is my “new” SBMM????
I dropped the game two weeks ago because of SBMM, played since first week. I guess they still did not address it. I don't have problem with winning, i just don't want to play ALGS.
...except when you lag. That's 100% you. 😂 Dazs! Thanks yo your advice and community ( and no small part me being a badass) I'm now hot dropping, gathering Intel, positioning and squad wiping more often than not. We have not always seen eye to eye but you are an apex legend in your own right. Wish you the best! ❤
Appreciate you tons, I still have miles to improve upon as a creator & gamer. But will always put my best foot forward to help others. Also, when have we not seen eye to eye? :O I was looking over our old comments, everything seemed really positive when we comment back and forth.
Ye ranked is deff harder about 570 games and still only diamond 2 i feel like that is the new skill cut off for soloq because a lot of peeps srtuggle with that part literally ranked up and down 5x already and just cant get trough atm (maybe just nedd to squad up tough lol)
ive been tryna get down matnle jumps and its so tough man I got every other movement tech down besides chaining more than 3 lurches do u have any tips?
This season is just annoying. I keep being put against 3 stacks(solo q and when im with a team) these people play way more than i do and theres no way i can win. Most of the time i know i could had won in a 1v1 but in a 1v2 or 1v3 i cant. Its just sad and not fun, thats why i wont play rank this season its not fun playing borderline algs
Seriously, I've seen people complain the matchmaking is unfair because their k/d went from 3.0 to 1.5 and that's just objectively false. If you're matched with players of similar skill levels, your k/d should be floating around 1.0. If you're getting 3 kills for every death that means you've been playing against people who are much less skilled
Try being 61 and playing this game. I play with dudes that are way better than me and man I get gunned down quicker than hell most of the time and I can't even tell where from half of the time, but there are times when I solo that I feel like a pred so it's definitely the SBMM causing the issues for everyone. I wish there was a seniors league of this, I could surprise some people!
I quit in split 1 season 15 because I got 0 damage games in seer meta. Idk if I want to get back into the game but I miss the gameplay and characters. I don’t think I’ll ever hit masters and that was my best shot, sooo idk maybe I’ll just stick to CS where my improvement is a bit more tangible for me personally. Just trying to figure it out you know?
Best ive ever played ranked, been working on my game and stuff, and just not getting rewarded. You are fighting people within your rank but in the rank you are. So if you diamond you are fighting diamonds in bronze, silver gold insteead of whippi g bronze silver and gold and then fighting real diamons in diamond.
The sbmm system wouldnt be so annoying in both pubs and ranked if it was accurate. I know I'm bad at the game, so why does the game think I'm some professional player and put me against masters and preds? I have a KD below 1 in every season that I've played and yet the games matchmaking thinks I'm good enough to go against sir timothy and mr aceu
Not just you, really good players, pros even are seeing lower KD and less high elimination games. Content is also harder. Seen it first hand with SoaR creators and other pros from big Orgs.
So what is up with MMR in ranked? I play solo most of the time so I don't play ranked much but in rookie ranked matches the games seem harder than when I play pubs and most of the people in my pub lobbies are in the higher ranks like I have preds in my lobbies and diamond, masters, etc. If someone plays ranked and they are in rookie rank and too good for that rank then they should win games and move up to a higher rank, not play against really hard players that are also rookie rank somehow( I have wondered if they lie about peoples ranks but it cud just be smurfs and the fact they let people have multiple accounts, like i know someone who has 3 or 4 accounts). I have tried to get into ranked a few times but its just too frustrating by myself cuz that games are harder than pubs somehow and my team mates wont even pick good legends for ranked so I have just decided to play duos recently cuz even if my team mates isnt great just having him their to do anything should make the game funner to play cuz I can actually get kills and im using more legends now cuz I dont have to worry about trying to 1v3 teams every match anymore
Idk I uset to love solo queuing ranked, now it's not worth my time lol so now I'm forced to play pubs.. which is never really fun. It can be even more sweaty than ranked and 70% of the time your teammates leave once their knocked. Plus playing against pre mades in any mode, you'll just lose if their coordinated or if they ape you. I want a solo queue only playlist, matching and pairing teams with solo queue only players. Or atleast make duos this way. Sbmm and pre stacks in pubs makes the game horrible and unplayable as a solo queue player.
Lol this is like my best season ever. my kd jumped from 2.8 to 4.3 normally my kd jumps are like 0.3-0.5 im interested in how that changes now because i think the new sbmm is a major reason for it
im 20k kills on loba aiming for 25k i have 1,334 this season i was killing 50-150 a day but today for an hour i couldnt even kill 2 people i got off and went t sleep its getting hard
hey daz! great video as always, but how do you get into a solo lobby to practice without r5 reloaded? I noticed the skin and heirloom while you were the only one in the server
If I’m going to be in the same mmr as pro 3 stacks then maybe my placements shouldn’t have put me in silver. So now I’m in gold playing against pred 3 stacks every game. This season is really getting on my nerves.
SBMM is a good idea but bad execution. On one hand,sometimes it makes you enjoy a casual match no matter being eliminated before 10 squads are left or you were left alone by your teammates but on the other hand,it has more of a predatory background: either or both EA and RSPN use SBMM to give you the hope to have a good match but then add a chance of having a high rank player running all over the map on a casual Control match as if it was the ALGS finals. You don't suck nor are a good player. Losing and wining is part of a game but having a Masters/4K and/or 20 bomb or movement enthusiast player as champion or against you is a true reason to start giving up the game. To sum it up: SBMM is a good concept but RSPN is using Ranked matches as a disguise because no devs (on the entire videogame industry,not just RSPN) know how to apply SBMM and use it correctly but for now... i wouldn't call a fun challenge facing a Masters as a low rank player in a casual match of either BR or any game mode in Apex
Hi dasz, i changed to OW2 & Fortnite, after nearly 3 yrs n 17.5k games 😢 apex lost me, n all those "top" player s always complaining about the game and kinda gatekeepin turned me off as well as how difficult it seems😢
Was Apex ever good for casual game players? I only started playing in season 15 (and I don't grind away for hours a day on this game) but the return on investment seems low. Very low.
Ranking up is so hard now for me. By no means I'm an Apex god. I'm an average gold player. And that too because I play once in a while maybe couple times in a year, i start playing the game for a few weeks, grind ranked until i hit mid gold and then stop playing (i play solo like 95% of time). But this season I have been playing ranked ever since the new season dropped and I have barely reached bronze one it took me almost 3 weeks to get to bronze 1? That's so fucking weird and annoying and infuriating aswell. I never get enough rp to rank up. Winning the whole match is not even rewarding. Maybe something about rank has changed but idk how or what. I get it, skmm is in more focus but what else has changed in ranked last couple seasons? I have to win like 6 matches to get to next ranked, and winning is already harder with random teammates. It wasn't this hard or atleast climbing the ranks was this much hard or slower before.
Dude if you played ranked season 15/16 it is definitely not as hard as that season but it is harder than last season but yeah winning you barley ever get 200+points which sucks. One thing to note, you don’t get positive until top 8 and it’s a minus 50/30 points otherwise 50 point entry fee
@@3ildcardagreed. I stopped solo q season 14 when I finally wanted to get serious and reach diamond. I genuinely did not feel like being pissed off at incompetent strangers. Maybe solo q is a flex for some of y’all but it’s not healthy for me at all😂😂😂 EFF that💀
Imagine how painful it’s been for me and the other people that honestly, genuinely, definitely suck.
This is how I felt but then I started to just say to myself "you can only get better if you play people better than you." The first few weeks of the season have been awful to be honest but I can literally feel myself getting better in decision making and aim overall
You are better than you realize. When I coach players almost everyone is on a good path forward.
Its just the matchmaking can make you not notice your gains. Its where the fun can genuinely get ruined. But I hope its reassuring that everyone is having this issue.
@@Dazs It definitely is reassuring Dazs. I’ve learned a ton from watching your videos. I’m still having fun so I’ll stick around!
@@dylangarcia0407 I play exclusively with a guy who’s way better than me so I’m sure that doesn’t help my SBMM. I drag the team down for sure, but we win sometimes and we’re still having a blast!
@@Kavilion exactly if theres one thing you get from not winning a lot, its that winning feels so much better than usual😂
Patience and knowing when to push makes a huge difference in this game
I knew this was coming and how Season 18 would be quite a shift overall. I am NOT going to say I told the community. I urged using prior season as a training arc. But now we are in Season 18, and things are more difficult. We discussed cheaters in a prior video. But with a any harder system, people will do whatever they can to win.
There is positives within this season and I remain optimistic of the future of Apex Legends overall though!
bro thank you. I took 2 seasons off after playing every single day and grinding. When I got back, I felt like a brand new player. Its been rough and I'm still learning but thank you for the confidence boost.
Thanks dude, my mates keep on piling on me, saying that I was too tactical for wanting to make rotations out of a fight and getting to zone, thanks chum
@@3ildcardthat’s the part. Idk why randoms feel the need to try to win the most unlogical fights.. like is dying a badge of honor to them? I have to get used to just playing my life more cause I do try to Rez or respawn if I can but most times it’s not worth it
Thanks dude, I've felt like a bum after not being able to perform as well as before. It is significantly harder to get kills, everyone moves faster and the enemies are getting better and it feels like the SBMM is punishing me because I was performing well in the past, thanks for this video dude, I can feel a bit better about myself and keep on grinding to be a better player
The only thing I absolutely hate about this season, is the amount of disconnected servers on mixtape… I don’t know if the servers are just crap, or if they’re being DDOS’ed … it happens about 3-4 matches every hour or so…
SBMM in pubs is also a lot harder this season and it's probably making people feel like they suck too.
nah last season alot of good players stopped playing bc of ranked ratting, now they're back so pubs average skill level is higher
I think if ur questioning ur skill ur probably bad
Oh I know I'm bad😂
@@Six-bw3irthat’s not fair,cuz I don’t think I’m bad and I’m struggling in bronze 1
Jesus is the only way to heaven
Being a good person won’t get you there.
“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6 ESV
Repent from your sin(disobedience to God) and turn to God and follow Him so that you will be saved
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
1 John 1:9 ESV
“No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”
Luke 13:3 ESV..
Tip on mantle jumping that I've found made me way more consistent is to hold both W and your interact key and when you start to mantle the edge, quickly switch your finger from W to S or crouch and then scroll wheel down
Dazs, thank you so much for making this video!! I come to Apex from playing competitve Fortnite for 3 years and I know how important prioritizing zone is. I have to keep yelling at my teammates on Apex to move to zone with me but it’s so hard to keep an Octane and now a newly Rev to not push multiple teams only to get 4th partied. You have spoken my words and feelings on Apex Legends right now and you have a new humble subscriber!
While most of what you're saying may be true, most of us just want a fun game to get on a frag out for a couple hours a night, not be put through the meat grinder. And apex is proving less and less to be that game. Even mixtape has been incredibly sweaty this season and that should be the mode to just go and turn your brain off.
online shooter's aren't for bedtime, there's a nice game called stray, jumpin about as a cat, that's made for turning your brain off, ....apex isn't lol, I get what your sayin though
Fr the guy thinks we are all fatsos who play videogames all day like it is a duty
@_SUPERN0VA_ Do you even understand what competitive games/battle royal games mean and why most of the casuals enjoy playing it even in their little free times? Do you think a br/shooter game is like watching a movie to chill? Why do you even play the game if you dont have the competitiveness/skill learning thirst in you? You could have chosen some other story games. Not talking about fps players who play the game for a career or money, talking about casual players who have that competitive fire in their mindset. These casuals dont have much time to play the game but would train hard the little time they get, to continuously improve and feel the accomplishment of learning things in their boundary. It reflects their real life skill learning curve to be better and competent in their goals. Me, for example, a casual player with full time job who play the game for few hours in weekends, try my best to be as good as possible within time limit, because it has something to learn and "one more thing to be good at", along with real life stuffs. When I need to chill at night, I watch a movie with my partner. But fps games are certainly not what you think of. Nevertheless, calling people fatsos for whatever, very poorly reflects your competency in real life as well. Have a good day.
Sbmm shouldn't even be in ranked. Your rank should be the indicator smh
People would find a way to play the system. That's why most games with ranked use an mmr for matchmaking.
okay but almost every game with a ranked mode uses MMR for matchmaking and apex is just late........
@@rodrigos7070 smurfs will Smurf. The ranked system before should've just had longer q times so plats weren't playing Pred and masters.
@@serendiggiity6506 if you're playing a ranked game and you're ranked silver, you shouldn't be playing people ranked Pred. That literally defeats the purpose for ranks
i v much disagree with this statement. so many ppl soloq, and their rank is just sabotaged by lower skilled players, where if they had similar skilled/ more strategic teammates they could be plat or diamond but because they keep getting those teammates who choose to land on half the lobby, they can’t climb in such a harsh system but somehow still get 4 kills and 1k damage solo at a hot drop before dying in 12th place and then going negative
i think its perspective i feel like you can get really good at apex if u just focus on movement and Ur aim comes along with it movement also allows you to think of what you want to do in an engagement that's how i use movement i use it as a guide for my fights and seeing multiple entries and disengagements in my fights that's why i win so many fights because i think a lot about my area and my cover and how i can get to places faster then my opponent and how fast can i throw them off for my team
You dont know how much ive been stressing GO TO ZONE on my random teammates. HOLY. Just playing the first few hours when this season came out made me quickly realize that the meta this season is to go to zone. Its so important im glad youre emphasizing it
But what is a zone? People say zone damage, ring damage, storm, go to the zone, go the ring, etc
Went on apex after watching this video and performed really well, just got a 9 kill game, and felt like my confidence was way more boosted than it normally is.
The only thing I've found to beat the masters/preds, as a high plat/low diamond player, is to always find yourself being the bread of the sandwich. You never want to be the meat in the sandwich. By being the bread I mean hugging the ring, staying close together, rotating early while staying out of the center of the next ring, (and possibly the most important part) keeping a low profile until the whole team is ready to act. It's hard to keep track of everything at all times but it's also extremely rewarding when your team listens to your pings and gets the dubb. Really makes you feel like a IGL
My personal expectation that helps me enjoy the game more is "Im probably goijg to die in the first engagement" so when it happens i dont get mad, but if it doesn't, then im pleasantly surprised and everything afyer that is gravy
I started playing this on the switch, and I was never the best apex player, but as a level 3 on a switch, I was getting games against preds 😅 maybe try again next season
Im constantly trying to rethink and re analyze games i lose while i wait for my queue to pop, and all ive actually learned from trying to do this is that i have no clue what im doing, or what im supposed to be doing, and the only conclusion i can ever come to is "well i obviously shouldnt have missed 3 full clips while theyre 15m from me" and "i probably could have had a better position?" but even thinking i could have had better positioning, i never really understand how or why a "better position" is better. Ive started fights thinking i was gonna roll because i had much better positioning, and then after 15 seconds im getting dropped on my all three of the enemies at the same exact millisecond, and i cant even escape to a new position because im playing a touhou bullet hell 💀 except all the bullets are spawning 5 pixels away from my hitbox. even if my braincells try to properly fire and tell me to go for a walljump for cool man get away tactics, as soon as i go for the slide a bullet hits me and i dead slide and im just crouching at my enemies, perfectly leveled for them to grab me by the back of the head and absoLUTELY SKULL RAIL ME. I get on the game because i enjoy getting better at movement, because its so fun to be good at, but then the moment i actually get into the game i realize i literally CANNOT compete, and i get off the game feeling so feint and empty inside, so upset with myself, and genuinely wanting to unalive myself, like, its so bad. like omg, its actually so bad
Remember it’s just a game man. I’m working on my movement too, one thing that’s definitely taken my game to the next level for me is ALCs idk if u use them but the default setting makes aiming way harder to me then I realized. This may also take some time to get it personally perfect but it’s worth it. Use mixtape to your advantage❤
Yeah, its just a game, a really fun game, that due to my personal skill in comparison to everyone else, im NOT ALLOWED to have fun playing :(
gg go next, gg go next, gg go next, gg go next, gg go next, gg go next. I just want to have fun 😭 but even in for fun game modes everybody plays the shit like their actual life and careers depends on it
Lets admit it SBMM was always a lil broken, but ever since they added the new ranked system and MMR thats when things changed for SBMM
Thank you Dazs for just putting out videos watching you has inspired me to be a better player and trying to start my content creation journey!
So many people just suck but have gotten dia/master a few times when they simply don‘t belong there! This season will put them in place again, and I love it!
I hope so, I don’t see people complaining about how easy ranked is anymore and now everyone is complaining about match making 😂😂😂 but i do want to see if these regular good players can still reach diamond masters
or no one will play it and 90% won't play ranked like atm.
95% of the community under gold because no one play the game lmao
Wow gdamn @ 1:50. Good stuff Dazs you destroyed that team!!! Love seeing your gameplay.
i'm of the opinion that videos like this are the reason i still make steady improvements in Apex, Thanks Dazs. Also whats the origin of your name "Dazs"? Its not one i've seen before
I went from holding a 4kd for a whole season, to having ~2.2kd with the new casual SBMM. Very jarring the way that pubs have changed. It's way worse when playing with friends as well.
Same.. last season 3.5 and now only 2.4
I feel it too
I had a random running around with 0 shield, upon pinging multiple shield (stronger than his empty grey) he still didn’t pick any of them up. He was also level 300 so not a noob and this was in a diamond lobby, some people ARE bad.
Horrid
The beginning clip was some of your best shots I've seen. Holy beams
Vod reviewing is what made my duo and me start recording the whole match instead of just the highlights. Being able to see our thoughts process (or lack there of) made us be a little better in our synergy tbh.
as soloq, i take for 2-3 days off, even a week. then when i’m back, i want to have fun learning something new
Positive vibes are few, great channel brother.
This season has been crazy unbalanced. S17 I could casually play pubs with randoms. Would wipe a squad or two, get killed and win about 1/10 games and occasionally run into really skilled / sweaty teams.
Since the start of S18 8/10 teams I run into have almost perfect aim, and are playing as if they are training for professional competitive tournaments. Also my shield feel like they are made from paper.
Same goes for TDM/GR/CTRL matches. People are just destroying me at range and my own weapons feel like they do 1/2 the damage compared to the previous season.
I’m not one to give up, but until this gets fixed I decided to take a break from Apex. I’m not surprised the player count is at an all-time low atm.
season 18 is easier for alt accounts. my lvl 950 account this season has a kd or 0.6 and avg dmg of 310, my lvl 96 account this season has a kd of 1.5 with avg dmg of 505. (l only play solo q, last season on this lvl 96 account, kd was 0.8 with avg dmg 430 ) i didn't magically get better over night, it is my teammates this season magically are hella better, as you can see my kd this season on my alt account doubled then that of last season)..the only reason i can think of why this is so ...is that respawn is prioritizing newer accounts that don't have a lot of skins ....so ppl only buy stuff if they think they are good at the game , i.e this is a monetization move. they are trying to monetize off the new players from the last 3 seasons ...older account that has all the skins ....will not spend as much as newer accounts that does not have many skins .... just my thoughts
nah i tried to make a new account too and by level 3 i was already in full master/preds lobby lvl 600-800.
the mm is worse on my new account than on my 2.7kda lvl 700.
it just show how bad and stupid respawn devs are.
I love your videos and your tips have made me be much more analytical during fights and come out on top more often, keep it up!
First 50 games of the season I had a 2.3kd, ~600avg damage, 12% win rate. Similar for my ranked placements and got silver 2. Around 75 games games in I got hit by a wall of insane players and it's been like that ever since in both pubs and ranked. Got down to a 1.6kd 5%wr 480 avg and took a break for a week. Separately, I think the second half of this season's stats are my worst ever, and I felt I was playing my best ever for the start. I think I fucked up and found myself in a bucket I don't truly belong in
Same. I was flying through ranked solo que and once i hit gold 2 i keep going in and out of gold 2 and 3. I’ll have one game with competent teammates and then 5 games where I’m sure my teammates only objective is to sue the very first chance they get.
nah bro I actually got worse, just getting older...
Season 17 I had my best season ever my highest KD and just all around I was having so much fun. This season is the exact opposite, way too many 3 stackers in pubs which is what I mainly play. It is reassuring that everyone is having this issue though.
My kd went up after I turned off vsync in video settings and lost input lag it was holding me back so much and I didn't realize it. Also i started using movement more in fights 💪💪
What sucks is l quit for a year just to come back to the sweatiest lobbies I’ve ever played in that wasn’t past diamond 3, it’s hard getting back in the groove when pubs and ranked having to try as hard as l can not only fighting other teams but fighting with my own teammates wanting to make careless decisions that throw the game yelling at the team because we weren’t there to die with them, it’s always been bad with randoms but it’s even worse now because everybody thinks they have 200 iq game sense
My main frustration is that the "lobbies being balanced on your entire teams MMR rather than the highest player in the squad" update seems to have vaniushed off the face of the Earth. I've peaked at Diamond (Ignoring S17 ) and don't mind getting put in lobbys with Masters and the occasional Pred when my teammates are also around that MMR. But when I'm queing with my IRL friends who are Plat players (on a good day) I still get the same lobbies with 20bomb 4k triple masters teams. And now those lobbies extend to ranked even when we're still in bronze/silver.
The fact you can face off against players that you wouldnt be able to queue up with is just laughable really.
This video just made me realize how unrealistic my expectations were and that its probably the reason why i get so mad at the game (beside rollers)
Great vid Dazs, makes me feel understood since I switched from controller to MNK about a week ago and it was a struggle the first 3 days. A week in, my KD is pumping up (roller was 1.5, tanked to 1.26 when I switched, currently at 1.54) and I feel like I enjoy the game more. Also, can you make a video to learn how to mantle jump and maybe go more in-depth on Tap Strafing lol.
Even though it all sounds obvious, I for one find this to be at minimum a great refresher. Plus nobody likes to believe that they suck. Nobody.
plzz we would like a video about the mantle jump. YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE HERE WHO EXPLAINS THINGS THIS CLEAR AND SIMPLE.
I don't want to keep going higher and higher when I do good. Sweating my ass off every single game sucks. I just want to relax.
Facts u just have to keep that mindset in pubs and remember at least there is nothing to lose
I just don’t get how they can make out that sbmm works, I don’t mind saying that in bad but I do enjoy this game. Highest I’ve ever got in ranked is plat 1, my kd is below 1 but ranked and pubs are full off preds or 20 bombers that I honestly don’t even have a chance ever.
I can’t lie, 75% of my games, I can apply these tips to. But as for the other 25%, I can’t seem to stop dropping on loot pills, or tarps on the ground that carry everything but a weapon, whereas my opponents get weapons and murder me instantly. I can’t over exaggerate this
When I think I'm improving, suddenly I got put with a teammate that don't know how to play, while all enemy team has player that can do neo strafing or even difficult movement
Waterworld Nintendo theme song hit different. Good content.
A lot of people left the game you can tell because you play with the same person almost all the time plus there’s an increased amount of cheaters
man it's crazy , every day it's the same ppl in the same lobbies everytime i see the kill feed i'm like fuck it's them
@@hatenuke1 yep
with great gameplays comes greater challenge
-uncle daz
but not gonna lie thats a really good quote
man, this season i was so close to getting my K/D even... and now i'm 100 away again. this season just sucks so much.
Dude you're so right this is low key the hardest game to master
@@3ildcard you might be right 🤣 maybe is time to give up lol
@@demoflowthat what makes it fun to me tho. How hard it is makes me want to conquer it more
The harder it gets ,the more cheaters will come.
This season is so different from the last one in the matter of difficulty. but the good side is that we are improving very fast now .
All I know is this is the first season since I started in season 2 where my KD is below a 1.00.... it's been hovering around 1.25-1.6 every season since season 3, peaking at a perfect 3 for season 15. But it's been downhill ever since. It feels like I just dont have it anymore and I'm routinely getting my butt kicked match after match. I have 1 single win so far this season and a trash KD. Feels like I'm going backwards the last few seasons and I'm not sure what else I can do without sinking time I no longer have into the game.
About movement technique in video pls do tutorial. Thanks for your videos, it's always pleasure to watch you :)
Thanks for the humble content ❤️
i was averaging at least 2 wins a day and 2.7 kd before this 2 Seasons. But now i can go weeks on end without a single win
So many of my squads this season in pubs just keep pushing in ring
I would also like to add people please remember support legends can craft banners!! and if we are in your team you can too! don’t leave cos i leave a 1 v 3 (that you rushed into and got downed in )to go to a close crafter!! if the crafter is miles away i get it. let’s reset and take down the lobby!!
As someone who's largest issue is probably his mindset, thanks for this.
Tight matchmaking in pubs is literally the only thing I have an issue with. Ranked should always feel like a super competitive activity. Like playing in a sports league. But pubs should be like going to a public park and playing pickup games with random people. I’m sorry but I think people shouldn’t be expected to demonstrate the same amount of intensity at the park as to when they are playing in an actual tournament.
Dude I’ll have great games with a good squad and then get into matches back to back with people not doing anything still…. I had a game today where I had a couple kills with 1k damage and both my teammates had 180 and 140 damage like where is my “new” SBMM????
Just got this video recommended after I gloriously threw multiple ranked games
As usual man, thanks!
I dropped the game two weeks ago because of SBMM, played since first week. I guess they still did not address it. I don't have problem with winning, i just don't want to play ALGS.
...except when you lag. That's 100% you. 😂
Dazs! Thanks yo your advice and community ( and no small part me being a badass) I'm now hot dropping, gathering Intel, positioning and squad wiping more often than not.
We have not always seen eye to eye but you are an apex legend in your own right. Wish you the best! ❤
Appreciate you tons, I still have miles to improve upon as a creator & gamer. But will always put my best foot forward to help others.
Also, when have we not seen eye to eye? :O I was looking over our old comments, everything seemed really positive when we comment back and forth.
Ye ranked is deff harder about 570 games and still only diamond 2 i feel like that is the new skill cut off for soloq because a lot of peeps srtuggle with that part literally ranked up and down 5x already and just cant get trough atm (maybe just nedd to squad up tough lol)
ive been tryna get down matnle jumps and its so tough man I got every other movement tech down besides chaining more than 3 lurches
do u have any tips?
This season is just annoying. I keep being put against 3 stacks(solo q and when im with a team) these people play way more than i do and theres no way i can win. Most of the time i know i could had won in a 1v1 but in a 1v2 or 1v3 i cant. Its just sad and not fun, thats why i wont play rank this season its not fun playing borderline algs
Seriously, I've seen people complain the matchmaking is unfair because their k/d went from 3.0 to 1.5 and that's just objectively false. If you're matched with players of similar skill levels, your k/d should be floating around 1.0. If you're getting 3 kills for every death that means you've been playing against people who are much less skilled
Mantle jump vid please 🙌🔥🙌
Try being 61 and playing this game. I play with dudes that are way better than me and man I get gunned down quicker than hell most of the time and I can't even tell where from half of the time, but there are times when I solo that I feel like a pred so it's definitely the SBMM causing the issues for everyone. I wish there was a seniors league of this, I could surprise some people!
I quit in split 1 season 15 because I got 0 damage games in seer meta. Idk if I want to get back into the game but I miss the gameplay and characters. I don’t think I’ll ever hit masters and that was my best shot, sooo idk maybe I’ll just stick to CS where my improvement is a bit more tangible for me personally. Just trying to figure it out you know?
Best ive ever played ranked, been working on my game and stuff, and just not getting rewarded. You are fighting people within your rank but in the rank you are. So if you diamond you are fighting diamonds in bronze, silver gold insteead of whippi g bronze silver and gold and then fighting real diamons in diamond.
Very nice video. Thank you!
Make IT. MAKE THAT MANTLE JUMP VID!
Good to know we aint atrugglin alone 😢
The sbmm system wouldnt be so annoying in both pubs and ranked if it was accurate. I know I'm bad at the game, so why does the game think I'm some professional player and put me against masters and preds? I have a KD below 1 in every season that I've played and yet the games matchmaking thinks I'm good enough to go against sir timothy and mr aceu
Thanks to your tips and movement guide videos .i am now top 200 pred awesome videos bro
There are a lot of people who genuinely do suck bro. But thanks for the tips.
Well spoken bruv.
mantle jump tutorial please!
I honestly thought it was just me lol
Not just you, really good players, pros even are seeing lower KD and less high elimination games. Content is also harder. Seen it first hand with SoaR creators and other pros from big Orgs.
So what is up with MMR in ranked? I play solo most of the time so I don't play ranked much but in rookie ranked matches the games seem harder than when I play pubs and most of the people in my pub lobbies are in the higher ranks like I have preds in my lobbies and diamond, masters, etc. If someone plays ranked and they are in rookie rank and too good for that rank then they should win games and move up to a higher rank, not play against really hard players that are also rookie rank somehow( I have wondered if they lie about peoples ranks but it cud just be smurfs and the fact they let people have multiple accounts, like i know someone who has 3 or 4 accounts). I have tried to get into ranked a few times but its just too frustrating by myself cuz that games are harder than pubs somehow and my team mates wont even pick good legends for ranked so I have just decided to play duos recently cuz even if my team mates isnt great just having him their to do anything should make the game funner to play cuz I can actually get kills and im using more legends now cuz I dont have to worry about trying to 1v3 teams every match anymore
How do I place fences further? I feel like my range isn't as large as you or players like Lamic
Idk I uset to love solo queuing ranked, now it's not worth my time lol so now I'm forced to play pubs.. which is never really fun. It can be even more sweaty than ranked and 70% of the time your teammates leave once their knocked. Plus playing against pre mades in any mode, you'll just lose if their coordinated or if they ape you. I want a solo queue only playlist, matching and pairing teams with solo queue only players. Or atleast make duos this way. Sbmm and pre stacks in pubs makes the game horrible and unplayable as a solo queue player.
so hard to know if i'm improving or not with this broken matchmaking
Ty Dazs 💙💙💯
Lol this is like my best season ever. my kd jumped from 2.8 to 4.3
normally my kd jumps are like 0.3-0.5
im interested in how that changes now because i think the new sbmm is a major reason for it
you're probably in the top 5% worst player if you get easy lobbies
im 20k kills on loba aiming for 25k i have 1,334 this season i was killing 50-150 a day but today for an hour i couldnt even kill 2 people i got off and went t sleep its getting hard
This season is harder but I’ve actually got better faster than normal.
hey daz! great video as always, but how do you get into a solo lobby to practice without r5 reloaded? I noticed the skin and heirloom while you were the only one in the server
If I’m going to be in the same mmr as pro 3 stacks then maybe my placements shouldn’t have put me in silver. So now I’m in gold playing against pred 3 stacks every game. This season is really getting on my nerves.
Love this type of vid
Ive consistently been making it to atleast 4th playing zone
Oh also avoid the long rail hallway/tunnel thing on broken moon 😂😂 guaranteed you're going to get 3rd 4th and 5thd
Love your videos Dazs
SBMM is a good idea but bad execution.
On one hand,sometimes it makes you enjoy a casual match no matter being eliminated before 10 squads are left or you were left alone by your teammates but on the other hand,it has more of a predatory background: either or both EA and RSPN use SBMM to give you the hope to have a good match but then add a chance of having a high rank player running all over the map on a casual Control match as if it was the ALGS finals.
You don't suck nor are a good player. Losing and wining is part of a game but having a Masters/4K and/or 20 bomb or movement enthusiast player as champion or against you is a true reason to start giving up the game.
To sum it up: SBMM is a good concept but RSPN is using Ranked matches as a disguise because no devs (on the entire videogame industry,not just RSPN) know how to apply SBMM and use it correctly but for now... i wouldn't call a fun challenge facing a Masters as a low rank player in a casual match of either BR or any game mode in Apex
Weak mind. I’m the type to chase preds
Hi dasz, i changed to OW2 & Fortnite, after nearly 3 yrs n 17.5k games 😢 apex lost me, n all those "top" player s always complaining about the game and kinda gatekeepin turned me off as well as how difficult it seems😢
You will be missed
Smart butt 😜
Was Apex ever good for casual game players? I only started playing in season 15 (and I don't grind away for hours a day on this game) but the return on investment seems low. Very low.
Ranking up is so hard now for me. By no means I'm an Apex god. I'm an average gold player. And that too because I play once in a while maybe couple times in a year, i start playing the game for a few weeks, grind ranked until i hit mid gold and then stop playing (i play solo like 95% of time). But this season I have been playing ranked ever since the new season dropped and I have barely reached bronze one it took me almost 3 weeks to get to bronze 1? That's so fucking weird and annoying and infuriating aswell. I never get enough rp to rank up. Winning the whole match is not even rewarding. Maybe something about rank has changed but idk how or what. I get it, skmm is in more focus but what else has changed in ranked last couple seasons? I have to win like 6 matches to get to next ranked, and winning is already harder with random teammates. It wasn't this hard or atleast climbing the ranks was this much hard or slower before.
Dude if you played ranked season 15/16 it is definitely not as hard as that season but it is harder than last season but yeah winning you barley ever get 200+points which sucks.
One thing to note, you don’t get positive until top 8 and it’s a minus 50/30 points otherwise
50 point entry fee
@@3ildcardagreed. I stopped solo q season 14 when I finally wanted to get serious and reach diamond. I genuinely did not feel like being pissed off at incompetent strangers.
Maybe solo q is a flex for some of y’all but it’s not healthy for me at all😂😂😂 EFF that💀