Thought the exact same thing. Let him solo Q and see what the REAL experience for most apex players are. A duo is such a huge advantage because of communication. Not really a realistic look.
Being a solo in platinum is a nightmare. SO PLEASE SOLO TO MASTER KANDY!! That would an awesome video. Just to see if I’m the only one losing my sanity.
Plus I never liked Hal the way he talks to snipe down and verluhr not bcz of I’m jelouse I care less about his skill but dam I feel mad people not stand up for them self and let HaL just talk down to them and cuz them out and like damm even if you are the number 1 apex player why would you be so toxic I have a friend like that and I never play with him anymore no matter if your god himself at video game can’t stand toxic players 😂 that’s why I like Zeus stand up and made a video haha
For my experience solo with random team is 60 or 70% bad because of trying camping/running away all the way to Top 5 or 'win' that not gonna work on Plat even in Diamond instead of make a plan to engage and survive to get more point.
Use Valk. Don't ever drop hot. If master jumps you hot off rip. Dont go with them. Tell them your landing beside hot zone. Be prepared to run from bad situations.... Stay for good ones. Like if your teamate downs an enemy you gut it out. If they go down and don't do damage... You run... Its that simple. Pray theyre a support legend and ULT if u have to, to crafters Valks passive sees all enemys around crafters..... Her ult upgrade is stupid op u can see people IN BUILDINGS in ult but i go for her other upgrade on jets....... More useful....
I've only solo queued ranked in this second split, and as soon as i hit platinum (on OCE servers) i automatically run into top 200 preds basically every game, and it was very hard to get to diamond, ngl.
At 17.56 the maggie boom died to is actually the same pred who 3 stacks with hiswattson I also solo ranked whenever i play since none of my friends play apex and i mainly go against masters and diamonds in plat. I have had my fair share of preds on my team or against me to
I've been playing since season 2, but this season in particular feels much harder. All my friends have quit the game, and I'm considering it too. I really think there are fewer and fewer players left, and we're mostly just facing hardcore tryhards now.
hey kandyrew i remember watching you when i was younger and i played on switch but now im on pc and im starting to play apex again so cant wait to start watching your vids once again
Time of day and region make all the difference. That is actually explained in their match making. The pool of players ranks widens… when I play, it’s impossible to get into a plat or diamond match without several predators.
How come my lobbies no one misses a shot and I have two teams rush me and one clip me , oh and my squad gets knocked in the first 30secs in a hot drop every match
I nvr cared about trying to rank up in the past but this seasons first split was the first i tried as a solo Q. Hit diamond playing maybe half the split. Its just about surviving the slew of idiots you'll get on your team.
Afther apex banned my account for no reason i stoped playing the game keep in mind i was beta 1 player when doctor lupo and all the other streamers played before the actual release date
Every platt lobby I start up by typing "nerf akimbo" and my teammates comment on how it's killed this season and they're not fun to use but you absolutely have to
So now I'm curious, do you and boom do training sessions with subs? Monetarily ot not? Just wondering because I know I'm capable of this level of play but honestly haven't been outside silver because I don't have a solid stack to play consistently with
I can tell you one thing. If you practice your aim and tracking, you get master/pred lobbies in gold 1 and plat already. Thats how sbmm works in Apex. But the problem is that the game also throws you Cpus older than windows 95 as teamates. So by having a good aim and soloq "you" make the game harder for your self. Well, according to the game.
last time i played ranked cheaters started popping in around plat 2 (eu lobbies) i remember eu streamers and such also struggling in plat and constantly running into cheaters and dipping in and out of diamond constantly because of it, it was actually insane
I know things might be different for everyone but I just hit diamond last night and my lord plat 1 and 2 was a grind with all the diamond, master preds I had to battle. Which is why I always end my solo Q experience at diamond.
I was butt hurt at first because two guys who play this game EVERYDAY where saying plat lobbies seem pretty fair. and then he saved it all by saying this point that HAD to be made. 18:14 "not broken during the time of the experiment"
This is crazy me my friend used to play ranked but now we mainly play pubs bc when we was in silver and gold just starting ranked for this season we our first game we died to number one ash then next game we died to 3 stacking preds with all over 20k kills on one legend and we keep dying to that or lvl like 30-80 with 4k 20 bombs or just obviously hackers so once we hit plat we stopped playing ranked and just did pubs
18:34 Jokes on you. It literally takes me 4h of play as an averrage solo queue player to get *somewhat balanced* lobbies without preds, cheaters and smurfs destroying me left and right while my teammates don't know how to shoot a gun. Around the 3-4h mark the matchmaker chills out with those rounds and i can have a win and "some fun" while being so toxic, annoyed and stressed out, that i just can't keep playing anymore. Physically and mentally. (90% of the time) I love this game but i *hate* the Matchmaker, Respawn and EA. I will probably play this game till it dies but only because *the core gameplay and game design* is so much fun and well done.
the real problem with apex ranked is that there are more players in diamond than in gold. ranks mean nothing until masters or pred so its shitty to grind it expescially solo q because your random teammates will have somehow scraped their way in to plat or diamond, and the enemies youre going against will be players that actually belong in that rank
Hey rew i have a challenge idea for you! Win a game of apex with only grey shields. This means that you cannot get more than 450 evo because you would be blue shield then! I think it would be pretty interesting? Love the content man keep up the good work!👌🤝
On frankfurt servers it is broken because of low player count. For example, there are not enough players to fill plat lobby, so the game throws in preds and master to launch the match
I know a lot of people are saying it but, solo queue is much much different than this, the solo queue experience is quite literally the worst thing I think I’ve ever experienced in this game which I why I quit. If you really want to experience a lot of what people are complaining about do an attempt at a solo to masters. The only reason I say attempt is because you might want to quit after a while
Idk if it's SG servers specifically, last split, I would run into cheaters constantly, these guys were hitting more shots than most pred players I've watched and they'd be lucky if they missed a bullet...
I only solo que and if I can’t tell the difference between a ranked game and a regular match why would I play ranked, I try every season to actually give ranked a chance and I regret it every single time, I play ranked when it’s a different map rotation and I’m not feeling the current map
The people complaining are soloQing (probs in Sydney servers) Lobbies are dead, sweaty af, almost everyone is on Zen, xim or strikepack, and cheaters target soloQs by using smurf accounts to give teammate locations to teaming enemy squads and crash the victims game so they cant report the team. I've had that last example happen at least 3 times this split.
I’ve been solo queue the last couple seasons and have consistently hit diamond everytime. HOWEVER, it’s been a rough journey, I’ve seen more cheaters in Diamond than any other rank. Tons and tons of 6 mans more than hackers/cheaters(aimbot/wall hacks/configs)
The SBMM in the game currently is so bad Kandy, I'm silver and I'm getting matched up with Masters and Preds. Isn't that cause for concern??? I'm not on their level, how am i supposed to play if i have to constantly run and sweat my ass off from PREDS!!!!
Me myself I don't run into cheaters taht often, I see my team8reacting to normal stuff and call out it a cheating. but for me it looks normal. But on the other hand, it's unplayable for me as solo plat under certain time of day which is sad. We talk about 1am EU here, as plat 2 i was thrown in to pro lobbies, and coudsl figure it out just how nickname variety changed with tags and LFT in them. Also I've send screen shot to friend... and he realised thaht there is Lou on kill feed. Which sucks... like. I tought for a whiel its impossible, but now I understand where comes the screens of golds runing into preds.
nah. ranked is ccoked now. u should make this video again in the new season. where u can see what ranks are in ur lobby. i got 22 preds in my plat 2 lobby. and many many pred teams after that in many different games. either my luck is bad or the rank system is cooked rn
Its broken because the game is losing players, it doesnt have much to do with matchmaking at all. When there are less players the game cant find balanced matches its really simple honestly. Also I dont remember them changing anything in the recent future the only thing changing is the player base.
I stopped solo queue for the last 6 -7 seasons. Because its horrible. I used to be a solid diamond player, but now getting to diamond is the hardest ever. I do try it every season a for a couple of matches but the higher you get the more braindead teammates becomes for some reason. Or getting rolled by lvl 50 players with a plat 1 rank is annoying
Literally only play ranked so my teammates don’t get downed and instantly leave lmao
I'm not the only one lol
Nvr started playing ranked til this became a huge issue.
And because it’s a tiny bit more likely they’ll actually try to play as a team
Same but then they start to throw slurs at me lol
plus pubs is just as bad as ranked
even having boom as a duo is a huge advantage compared to solo, yes do a solo queue to masters pls hahah
I don't think kandy would play apex at all if he didn't have boom to play with 😂
Thought the exact same thing. Let him solo Q and see what the REAL experience for most apex players are. A duo is such a huge advantage because of communication. Not really a realistic look.
i did
in apex mobile 🗿
It’s unbearable to solo queue rank I hit diamond and just stop playing completely
Being a solo in platinum is a nightmare. SO PLEASE SOLO TO MASTER KANDY!! That would an awesome video. Just to see if I’m the only one losing my sanity.
No offence to kand but he isn't masters lvl
@@wilsy4527 that hurts my feelings a bit, because I am much worse than him😂
Solo to diamond for me the past few seasons. It’s hard lmao
not just you, solo q ranked is pain. 8/10 matches you have to carry; 1/10 you get carried; the last 1/10 you're equally matched
For real if u EU and want to run some ranked games im down
hal is no longer the CEO of apex (no hate)
VERHULST NEW CEO?
@@kandyrewyes 😂
@@kandyrew yup
Plus I never liked Hal the way he talks to snipe down and verluhr not bcz of I’m jelouse I care less about his skill but dam I feel mad people not stand up for them self and let HaL just talk down to them and cuz them out and like damm even if you are the number 1 apex player why would you be so toxic I have a friend like that and I never play with him anymore no matter if your god himself at video game can’t stand toxic players 😂 that’s why I like Zeus stand up and made a video haha
@@kandyrewBC YOU ARE ❤THE CEO!
That hour 13 is my experience of ranked and all games.... 😅 No one misses and I seem to wear some red target shirt.
All pros think they're the #1 predator until Diddy enters the lobby
Best comment
DIddy downs one person. everyone yeets themselves off map in some way
you've just got some of the most entertaining videos in the genre of video games, you both are very funny and the editing is on point
Solo here, this video is vastly different from my ranked experience in high plat. great video tho
17:55 poor boom getting pushed by Enoch 😂
You are not solo q-ing. Even pros agree that it's a nightmare.
For my experience solo with random team is 60 or 70% bad because of trying camping/running away all the way to Top 5 or 'win' that not gonna work on Plat even in Diamond instead of make a plan to engage and survive to get more point.
Use Valk. Don't ever drop hot. If master jumps you hot off rip. Dont go with them. Tell them your landing beside hot zone. Be prepared to run from bad situations.... Stay for good ones. Like if your teamate downs an enemy you gut it out. If they go down and don't do damage... You run...
Its that simple. Pray theyre a support legend and ULT if u have to, to crafters
Valks passive sees all enemys around crafters..... Her ult upgrade is stupid op u can see people IN BUILDINGS in ult but i go for her other upgrade on jets....... More useful....
I've only solo queued ranked in this second split, and as soon as i hit platinum (on OCE servers) i automatically run into top 200 preds basically every game, and it was very hard to get to diamond, ngl.
At 17.56 the maggie boom died to is actually the same pred who 3 stacks with hiswattson
I also solo ranked whenever i play since none of my friends play apex and i mainly go against masters and diamonds in plat. I have had my fair share of preds on my team or against me to
nice job out there, dont forget to place those traps
Instant like for the Loba glaze at the beginning 😂
That funk rift at 4:24 though. 🥰
the mario kart music at 6:55 put a genuine smile on my face :'^)
I've been playing since season 2, but this season in particular feels much harder. All my friends have quit the game, and I'm considering it too. I really think there are fewer and fewer players left, and we're mostly just facing hardcore tryhards now.
Buy a cronus zen. Half of masters pred lobbys are cronus users. It's not you. Its the cheating. So join them....
@@holeindanssock156 downvote
Thank you bringing into this game you are the G.O.A.T Of Apex
10:00 the first 2 charge rifle kills in history
In gold running into multiple preds, multiple games in a row. Great experiences
hey kandyrew i remember watching you when i was younger and i played on switch but now im on pc and im starting to play apex again so cant wait to start watching your vids once again
Just wanna say proud of ya it's tough up here
Time of day and region make all the difference. That is actually explained in their match making.
The pool of players ranks widens… when I play, it’s impossible to get into a plat or diamond match without several predators.
Aside from timmy and wattson 99.9% of pro players say "SoLo Q tO PrEd" then give up at diamond 😂
How come my lobbies no one misses a shot and I have two teams rush me and one clip me , oh and my squad gets knocked in the first 30secs in a hot drop every match
Kandy I really love how u played caustic.
I solo queued to Diamond this season and just watching you duo queue looks so much easier.
I nvr cared about trying to rank up in the past but this seasons first split was the first i tried as a solo Q. Hit diamond playing maybe half the split. Its just about surviving the slew of idiots you'll get on your team.
Thank you for this, loved it
i think a solo q to masters vid would be a super hard goal and most people would go insane lol
Afther apex banned my account for no reason i stoped playing the game keep in mind i was beta 1 player when doctor lupo and all the other streamers played before the actual release date
5:03 I’ve been hard stuck plat 3 for like 2 weeks 💀💀 bc my teammates don’t wanna listen to me and I don’t wanna be that teammate to leave the team
Bro. You ARE THE PRED
with solo q it also depends on the region as well, since im playing in SEA servers, it is a lot more chaotic
I'll keep a note to rank up when pros and other preds are distracted
Great video like always
I would recommend soloQ only lobbies for ranked or some compensation when get downed by 3stack
Every platt lobby I start up by typing "nerf akimbo" and my teammates comment on how it's killed this season and they're not fun to use but you absolutely have to
So now I'm curious, do you and boom do training sessions with subs? Monetarily ot not? Just wondering because I know I'm capable of this level of play but honestly haven't been outside silver because I don't have a solid stack to play consistently with
I'm silver lobbies I play against masters players...
now THAT is broken
I don’t believe that
@@jhonquack9721 believe it, once I hit gold I just gave up, but my pubs lobbies are the same
@@baileydonohoo7139 I see preds only in Diamond lobbies maybe plat it’s actually impossible for you to see a pred in silver unless you got proof
@@jhonquack9721 I may have only seen the preds in pubs, but im about 99% sure I've seen at least one in my silver lobby
I can tell you one thing. If you practice your aim and tracking, you get master/pred lobbies in gold 1 and plat already. Thats how sbmm works in Apex. But the problem is that the game also throws you Cpus older than windows 95 as teamates. So by having a good aim and soloq "you" make the game harder for your self. Well, according to the game.
Verhulst is the new CEO
when I see kandy missing all his shots in a plat lobby and I miss all my shots in bronze lobby. I don't know if I'll survive my solo q
last time i played ranked cheaters started popping in around plat 2 (eu lobbies) i remember eu streamers and such also struggling in plat and constantly running into cheaters and dipping in and out of diamond constantly because of it, it was actually insane
As an average gold player I’m constantly fighting master and preds and have seen 10-15 hackers in my 30-35 games of ranked this season
I know things might be different for everyone but I just hit diamond last night and my lord plat 1 and 2 was a grind with all the diamond, master preds I had to battle. Which is why I always end my solo Q experience at diamond.
hey, im just a reminder that dirty bomb exists
I was butt hurt at first because two guys who play this game EVERYDAY where saying plat lobbies seem pretty fair.
and then he saved it all by saying this point that HAD to be made.
18:14 "not broken during the time of the experiment"
This is crazy me my friend used to play ranked but now we mainly play pubs bc when we was in silver and gold just starting ranked for this season we our first game we died to number one ash then next game we died to 3 stacking preds with all over 20k kills on one legend and we keep dying to that or lvl like 30-80 with 4k 20 bombs or just obviously hackers so once we hit plat we stopped playing ranked and just did pubs
18:34 Jokes on you. It literally takes me 4h of play as an averrage solo queue player to get *somewhat balanced* lobbies without preds, cheaters and smurfs destroying me left and right while my teammates don't know how to shoot a gun. Around the 3-4h mark the matchmaker chills out with those rounds and i can have a win and "some fun" while being so toxic, annoyed and stressed out, that i just can't keep playing anymore. Physically and mentally. (90% of the time)
I love this game but i *hate* the Matchmaker, Respawn and EA.
I will probably play this game till it dies but only because *the core gameplay and game design* is so much fun and well done.
I think Galaxy gas was listening to ht giga chad what a goat 🤣
the real problem with apex ranked is that there are more players in diamond than in gold. ranks mean nothing until masters or pred so its shitty to grind it expescially solo q because your random teammates will have somehow scraped their way in to plat or diamond, and the enemies youre going against will be players that actually belong in that rank
I played apex for 50 hours and realized silver lobbies have predators
Hey rew i have a challenge idea for you!
Win a game of apex with only grey shields. This means that you cannot get more than 450 evo because you would be blue shield then! I think it would be pretty interesting? Love the content man keep up the good work!👌🤝
On frankfurt servers it is broken because of low player count. For example, there are not enough players to fill plat lobby, so the game throws in preds and master to launch the match
I know a lot of people are saying it but, solo queue is much much different than this, the solo queue experience is quite literally the worst thing I think I’ve ever experienced in this game which I why I quit. If you really want to experience a lot of what people are complaining about do an attempt at a solo to masters. The only reason I say attempt is because you might want to quit after a while
man this is making me miss apex
You know the diamond lobbies are rampant with good cheaters when diamond is on a whole new level compared to plat
Solo ranking is for the birds. If I don't have a group I'm not gonna bother lol
Solo to diamond is quite enough of a challenge 😰
What sens and dpi do you run
17ms an African player could dream😭
12:30 😂😂😂😂
In my experience, on Tokyo Servers I get more masters and preds in my gold and plat lobbies
9:17 PIZZA TIME 🍕
Imo you should have to fight preds once you hit diamond. If youre not fighting preds in diamond, then masters is basically free.
I think there’s a huge difference between Na servers and EU servers
Now 15 hour solo que from G4
yeah that 15hrs on ranked reload could have been Elite close to Champion.
Idk if it's SG servers specifically, last split, I would run into cheaters constantly, these guys were hitting more shots than most pred players I've watched and they'd be lucky if they missed a bullet...
remake this video in solo q. I'm losing braincells at this moment.
Not me having preds in my bronx lobby🎉
Solo ranked is so awful it made me quit Apex legends
I dont know how but youtuber lobbys are always normal when i play one match of ranked they put me with the top 2% of apex players in a lobby
I only play every other weekend, so i dont play to much during a season and i can get to plat. After plat i couldnt imagine solo queuing 😅
I only solo que and if I can’t tell the difference between a ranked game and a regular match why would I play ranked, I try every season to actually give ranked a chance and I regret it every single time, I play ranked when it’s a different map rotation and I’m not feeling the current map
I play solo Pubs, and solo Ranked.. like 80 percent of Legends.
From what I’ve seen Singapore lobbies are filled with wall hackers and aimbot
i got into a lobby with enoch while i was plat 4, i switched from dallas servers and the matches seem more fair
Do it solo queue. Then we talking
My ears picked up on aceu more lol at 6:37
The people complaining are soloQing (probs in Sydney servers)
Lobbies are dead, sweaty af, almost everyone is on Zen, xim or strikepack, and cheaters target soloQs by using smurf accounts to give teammate locations to teaming enemy squads and crash the victims game so they cant report the team. I've had that last example happen at least 3 times this split.
I just solo queued to diamond and it’s probably in my best interest to leave it there lol
I’ve been solo queue the last couple seasons and have consistently hit diamond everytime. HOWEVER, it’s been a rough journey, I’ve seen more cheaters in Diamond than any other rank. Tons and tons of 6 mans more than hackers/cheaters(aimbot/wall hacks/configs)
The SBMM in the game currently is so bad Kandy, I'm silver and I'm getting matched up with Masters and Preds. Isn't that cause for concern??? I'm not on their level, how am i supposed to play if i have to constantly run and sweat my ass off from PREDS!!!!
Bro got killed by the number 1 pred for season 21 wow
Could of proven it in 15 minutes!
I got an heirloom while watching this😮
Me myself I don't run into cheaters taht often, I see my team8reacting to normal stuff and call out it a cheating. but for me it looks normal.
But on the other hand, it's unplayable for me as solo plat under certain time of day which is sad. We talk about 1am EU here, as plat 2 i was thrown in to pro lobbies, and coudsl figure it out just how nickname variety changed with tags and LFT in them. Also I've send screen shot to friend... and he realised thaht there is Lou on kill feed. Which sucks... like. I tought for a whiel its impossible, but now I understand where comes the screens of golds runing into preds.
13:29
Literally a cronus zen. Theres absolutely no way ANYONE ever makes those shots.... Period.
How did you get in broken moon
This was last split
@@lilbeartv9039 ok
nah. ranked is ccoked now. u should make this video again in the new season. where u can see what ranks are in ur lobby. i got 22 preds in my plat 2 lobby. and many many pred teams after that in many different games. either my luck is bad or the rank system is cooked rn
10:58 slipknot reference??
The poor matchmaking is the worst, made me quit the game entirely
If you really wanna see what rank is like play it solo try to communicate with your team and see how that goes for 15 hours 😅
Its broken because the game is losing players, it doesnt have much to do with matchmaking at all. When there are less players the game cant find balanced matches its really simple honestly. Also I dont remember them changing anything in the recent future the only thing changing is the player base.
eeyore is a donkey me lord
I stopped solo queue for the last 6 -7 seasons. Because its horrible. I used to be a solid diamond player, but now getting to diamond is the hardest ever. I do try it every season a for a couple of matches but the higher you get the more braindead teammates becomes for some reason. Or getting rolled by lvl 50 players with a plat 1 rank is annoying
4head about to level up to 6