How To Reach Diamond & Masters Rank! (Apex Season 20)

How to reach the highest ranks in Apex Legends Season 20 - Diamond, Masters and Apex Predator! Apex Ranked Tips
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[@julianvenegas9750]

I solo q'ed to masters.. honestly my biggest tip is just match whatever play style the randoms on your team do. If they want to play aggressive or play zones just do it, it's 100% better to all 3 be on the same page then you wanting to force them to do what you want. My changing my play-style to my teammates honestly has made the biggest difference in gaining RP consistently.

[@Mon_55]

The hardest part for me is when my teammates have no idea what they're doing xD I'll just crotch behind something and wait for them to figure it out. But I also agree with this. Butting heads with your randoms will only cause more frustration. For me personally, I love a mixture of both aggro randoms and randoms that know when to play a bit slower/safer. It makes earning rp so much better. I would hope my randoms have the same intention and want to earn rp, and not sell their rp doing something reckless.

[@WavvyboiKhris]

Yeah good to know I normally play conduit for heals I play solo q a lot rn I’m hard stuck diamond 4😭

[@-_-4936]

Most important tip, stats don't matter. I met so many players with 4k dmg and 20k badge, but they playing worse than new players

[@Hawthorne2]

I have two twenty bombs and some days I feel like taking the badges off because I'm playing like shit. I also stopped playing 4 hrs a day and only play maybe 5 hours a week these days

[@marcelweasley3207]

Feel ya. See so many Master Badges but also a big Lack off skill or damage haha

[@daanishtaaseen2507]

IKR I play so less nowadays n my 20 bomb which got like seasons ago puts so much pressure on me lol

[@-_-4936]

@@daanishtaaseen2507 understandable if you missed shots or smth similar, but sometimes they just walking like bots, even without running

[@daanishtaaseen2507]

@@-_-4936 haha then these guys never really achieved that badge by themselves lol

[@sotheartist9434]

Solo queuing in Plat is so hard this season. I have found easily the worst players at that rank for some reason. Their IQ’s are below the floor. So many try to avoid fights, don’t prioritize getting evo, don’t push 3v3’s off knocks , run right in between separate teams fighting, prioritize shooting at teams farther away while we have a team right on us, ignore teammate pings, and I could keep going on and on. I would suggest premade teams once you hit Plat unless you’re able to win 1v3’s confidently and escape the third party that will almost be guaranteed if you take too long.

[@simonisdanilo3950]

Loll I always solo queue I guess I’m gonna be mad at some point

[@lucasburdenofficial]

too real I can't get out of plat 4 because everyone is just so bad and the 3 stack I play with are inconsistent on when they want to hop on so it's either just me or me and my duo with a random 3rd and they are always so terrible, and I don't get it, they made it to plat and they just can't hold their own

[@KianHardwick_]

Agreed. I flew to plat 2 and now almost gold again. Everyone has such egos and don’t work as a team and are awful

[@King.Julien]

I dont even get plats at this point or they have the game sense of a rookie

[@ArturDZGN]

I've quit solo qeueing with randoms in Ranked. Pre-made squad only. Good comms make one hell of a difference and the confidence in the people you're playing with. I usually get like 2 decent randoms in 10 matches. it's insane.

[@Mozesond]

That endgame wraith portal play was so dope I had to rewind because I totally missed what you actually said

[@Bryzelo]

One thing that has helped me as I watch these better players on yt is that they do things quicker. Fight quicker, Loot quicker, and move on quicker. Sometimes I notice I take way too long fighting or looting and then another team will come

[@Taaxmaan]

if your solo queue always be anchor. get used to having blue mags and a 2x, whenever you finish fights if you have 4 bats, ammo, mags and sights, do not loot until you’ve looked around or your randoms are done

[@foolishness9449]

@@Taaxmaansmart man

[@Dorto123]

if your solo queue always be anchor. get used to having blue mags and a 2x, whenever you finish fights if you have 4 bats, ammo, mags and sights, do not loot until you’ve looked around or your randoms are done

[@marthoTT]

@@Dorto123smart man

[@clap2973]

This is my first time really dipping my toes into ranked and I gotta say it can be a bit of a rough climb. But I hit Gold 4 today. Nearly at 3 already.

[@clap2973]

Update:made it to plat 4. This is where the real game begins

[@Xsaveyawn]

Bro I’m stuck solo queuing and I can never make it out of Gold. I just move back & forth between gold 1-3.

[@jesseredeker4516]

As a solo que person mirage is good because most people will get confused, you can craft banners and its easier to just escape

[@akumafuhen2092]

I got goofed on by afew yesterday in ranked. Mirage and Fuse are my most hated legends atm lol

[@abdu7095]

I used to be caustic and mirage main, mirage Q can be used for defensive and agressive at the same time... But in this season, use Fuse is a blast too... especially if you are pushing a fighting teams

[@akumafuhen2092]

@abdu7095 yeah imo to me Fuse is the biggest pain in the ass this season. But I also haven't played for a year so haven't kept up with the patch notes. So I assuming he got some buffs? Or his abilities upgrades are really good.

[@Emvymcla]

Loba is nasty as a solo q

[@updownleftright883]

It would be easier to escape if the guy i was fighting didnt snipe me even though i was fully behind the wall

[@Parmar21.]

As someone who's solo queuing currently in Plat. (Obviously sometimes you or ur teamates won't be doing the best) but the difference in consistency is absolutely crazy.

[@lucasburdenofficial]

that's what I'm saying

[@lc1429]

I solo queue too and have team mates that dont want to stick together even in plat

[@LoganTerheggen]

I really appreciate your last statement in this video about how at the end of the day the point is to have fun. I've been playing a long time and pretty consistently a gold level player and I'm fine with that. I love hopping on with my buddy and just seeing where we get. I don't feel the need to try to get to the highest level. Just have some fun and hopefully have some good games. Your tips have been always helpful!

[@der_Alptraum]

how do you have fun if your team mates keep letting you down and enemies massacre you over and over again ._.

[@LoganTerheggen]

​@@der_Alptraumthat's fair! I more so meant it's not the end all be all if I don't make masters rank and that stuff. Obviously what you described can suck haha

[@Deckadez]

Loving the content. Please keep the good stuff coming out 🤘🏿

[@Mon_55]

So glad you made this! I just find it pretty interesting that when I made it to plat 4, most players continued to think they were playing in gold lobbies still lol I even admit that I took the liberty of disconnecting from the jumpmaster to land at a building a bit away from my team and paid the price lol A team saw this and they all landed on me and I immediately went "well this isn't gonna fly here" lol The things you thought you could get away with in the lower lobbies without losing much rp will not be the same in the higher ranks. If you keep making the same mistake, those negative 60's and negative 80's start to add up really fast.

[@Gutangla]

My plat 1 lobbies do not look like this lol.. 3 stack preds & pros everywhere

[@spino-_-raptor9728]

Same or 6 manners

[@Zymi_edits]

3:41 I love this part because I tell my teammates this every game but every time I get put with stubborn people that play rank like last season and then by the time it’s 3rd ring the team has no kills

[@Mellow0721]

Always awesome tips from the Apex Plug! In terms with dealing with the cheaters mentally like you were talking about after uploading our duo to pred, we noticed what helped us is having the perspective of "he can't do it to all 3 of us at once" instead of "fuck this game he's cheating" unless you're given the "Destroyer2009 Special" lol. Communicating teamshots is a great way to counter some of the "chosen ones" you encounter, but teamshotting is very undervalued in the lower ranks especially when you're normally all solos. Still though, the fact that we need increased strategy generation to counter cheaters as a pre requisite to have healthy sessions (sessions where you're climbing) is a little silly. Great Video!

[@Mellow0721]

3 actual Silver-Rookie players can only plan/process so many different strats let alone course correct if the plan gets kaboomed by Strikepack Mack.

[@lukeharris7870]

I 100% agree here MT... I mean I remember back in the old days when apex was heavily reliant on heals and shields. However, now with Rev and Conduit It feels like Apex has changed in an entirely different way. It's crazy when you have been playing this game since it came out and you have experienced it morph into what it is today... I do think that at the very least we should get a new legend that can counter these "specially shielded" legends...

[@arctictropic1147]

Buff Ballistic so his tac can disable on-player shields

[@SkillBeatz]

For me and my buddy it’s just time. The days we play we typically net a ton of RP and get good amount of kills and high placings, but we won’t be able to put in enough time to reach diamond or masters within a split

[@IReignYT]

I couldn't believe I when I saw this. Thanks so much.

[@ZombieBacon13]

You could be like my teammate who was "pred" last season going Valk and glitching under the map till top 2. In this season especially I told him how it would literally be easier to play the game normally. But we all know he wasn't good enough to do that.

[@albiegarner5859]

Great videos Mango, keep it up

[@rbrudder]

I’ve got 1300 hours in this game since season 10 and just started grinding rank for the first time in season 20. Rookie to Plat took me about 12 hours of game play by solo queuing. A good team is paramount. If you queue with two people who have mics, you’ll make big leaps through the system.

[@wasassinFPS]

Awesome video

[@Sicboyz-ku2wr]

I really feel like I could hit diamond with a pre-made team. But I'm doomed to eternal soloing

[@shadowmm1365]

Same I get hard stuck in gold most of the time

[@johnlee7622]

I have that nemY skin 🔥 always get complements on it, has three bullets shooting out a smoke trail as a charm, possibly my favorite skin in the game

[@XGhostRiderX]

Nice guide 🎉

[@rendy5092]

Nice vid!

[@zenith_mac]

great vid

[@ivanbreckner8159]

Cheating your way to a rank is soooo lame. I think it really says something about how sad their life is.

[@MangosInTrees]

it really is

[@krimeincorporatedod4895]

Not just that, with sooo many of them it ruins the game for everyone

[@NickWishesHeWasCool]

Loba is a savior for solo queue this season - tac is better than ever, letting you escape those fights where your teammates immediately die and leave you in a 3v1 - ultimate makes sure you're kitted but also that your teammates are too, getting the best value out of them - being able to craft banners is the difference between negative rp games and breaking even or going slightly positive

[@CaptainCoffeeFox]

As the season goes on it’s easier and easier to rank up. Best advice if you’re not the best player is to land with 1 team, hopefully win and then play for end game placement afterwards

[@dragus-it4732]

True, I am pretty noob like silver 2 atm, but I find ranked easier than pubs. Low rank lobbies are way more funny and easier, remove MMr was a bad decision in my opinion

[@Moreno6000]

I think it's my teammates but also me sometimes. My teammate play very inconsistent and never run away to craft banners even though we have support(i am the support) and because of this i become unsure if i am actually doing the right thing(which i am) but i jhst feel so unsure in the moment and than i fuck everything up

[@Brian-ib8sh]

I main caustic and my brother mains gibby and we do good in duos and I feel like these 2 have a lotof synergy for rank

[@elhiezenberg8393]

That wraith win was nice

[@TAKUMISEGI]

1:35 clip. Your decision making and composure 🫡

[@evildax6815]

I made it to masters solo without coms the season without the ranked split. Just play off your teammates and stick with them. My biggest tip is you need atleast one guy on the team that can take on the whole team by himself. Just team shoot with him and keep him alive

[@work4whatyouwant477]

This is my first time committed to solo queue to Masters. I’m P2 right now, but the most truth to this video is the fact that solo queue IS NOT FUN. It’s actually self torture, but I’m committed to reach the goal. I’ve always and only ever played Apex with IRLs who are way worse than me, so we never could really grind ranked. Apex is a team game, and solo queue takes the fun out of the team experience. Sure I have a few fun games where things are clicking and we roll the lobby, but 90% of the time we’re just on different pages and I’m pissed off because somebody (or me) threw the game.

[@bw8935]

Great video with top content, again. Love the team and solo angles on gameplay tips. Very interesting thank you : )

[@zephyrz9294]

im gold 1 rn solo q kinda struggling...really wanna hit diamond this season tho :)

[@HiramMulero]

Love your videos and tips.

[@mrperfect6371]

What is your settings I just don’t know what to do

[@liketobe2743]

This are the tips most of the players wont get because they think they just need to be better and out gun and out move their opponent and if their teammates would be just as good as them they would climb to master in a day :D

[@Eycei]

i mean i was terrible the first 1-2 years i played the game then i had a break came back about 1 1/2 years ago and ive improved so much so if you find that you are losing a lot just take a break for a couple months iwas at 330 average damage with a 1.3 kd now im at a 6 kd with 1180 average damage taking a break really fixes frustration with the game

[@Sannitaurus]

Also LMGs! They work great against Conduit/Revenant

[@AnthonySanchez-bp3fi]

Yea if ur in gold 💀

[@Sannitaurus]

@@AnthonySanchez-bp3fi plat 4 but hey, it works 💀

[@AnthonySanchez-bp3fi]

@@Sannitaurus against bots anything works

[@mystic_fandog3905]

I solo q alot but its been hard recently most people i get want to 50 50 first drop hot drop get like 5 kills die 😂

[@fraudedbean4969]

I main Wattson so is she still good to use in ranked or should I look elsewhere?

[@MangosInTrees]

If you're teammates play other legends that help her playstyle then yeah, but if you're solo queueing it might be tough in the higher lobbies

[@The_Glorious_Shogun_of_Inazuma]

Which servers do you play on? My servers look way harder than yours and I’m stuck in gold. I’m not even that bad but the enemies are just sweaty try hards that hit headshots every single time

[@konstasalminen1516]

how come in my gold lobbies there is still bunch of three stacks of diamond and masters players? I don't mean that their rank is necessarily that high but they have masters badges and +10k kills like what are you doing in my noob Gold III lobby??

[@aaronj.5414]

I got killed by 3 different cheaters earlier but it was kinda funny to spectate them because you can tell they are garbage without their exploits.

[@LiptonikPL]

cheaters in EU lobbies make it impossible for me and me friend to climb in diamond... I've encountered many wallhackers and aimbotters, or even boosters with Crypto on enemy team who only scans to gain assists, while his rookie IV cheater teammates wipe out lobby

[@MangosInTrees]

so cringe, I hate it

[@der_Alptraum]

Ranked gets so aggresive on Gold yet i keep getting team mates who get knocked down like flies. I don't know what to do.

[@arex5946]

I don’t think it’s your teammates bro 😂😂 If your dying on gold and blame your teammates then you for sure are one of those 😂😂

[@ray-zs9df]

Diamond is a bit harder now since you lose 80 rp so that forces people to not fight i mean i got three kills and three assists top 9 and still -75 then died season 19 was goos them promo trials was good

[@Djuane]

Probably a dumb question but will someone get the Pred badge if they only finish Pred for one of the splits and not both?

[@htonio-ly8cn]

Yup just the badge will not be reactive, itll just be and ordinary badge

[@marthoTT]

Guessing you didn’t play before Season 17

[@lolomelon528]

i cant watch this after smoking, i focus on tha clips 🔥

[@Sannitaurus]

As someone who always soloQing, take care of yourself is the big thing

[@jacobhammond6783]

Vantage is pretty awesome at solo q been having a lot of fun just started using her this season loba is my main normally lifeline is my second but think I might switch only downside is the crafting banners but vintage is funner than loba and lifeline imo

[@RubyXIII]

revenant finally getting picked 😭🙏🏿 it’s

[@TheWeeklySlopYT]

Glad to see crypto is still least picked legend to play. Nothing has changed in 3 years man nothing has changed

[@XxREXKW0ND0xX31]

I’m solo plat 1. I can’t anymore. Potatoes on potatoes on my team.

[@Ale_Redondo]

Honest question: there are cheaters on console lobbys? I dont know how to identify one in game.. i get beamed really fast sometimes, but well, that happens 😅

[@leaf8396]

Ranked has stopped feeling fair as a solo queue. I dont think Ive ever lost to a conduit or revenant where they didnt win because they had 100 more health than me. Its beyond frustrating.

[@Ed-fh2wh]

It’s a three man squad battle Royale. The whole point is to play as a team and win. 😂

[@abdu7095]

Communicating in higher ranked is a must. Mande: "I'll pass" Timmy: "Me too" Faide: "Wait me too. Seriously?"

[@MangosInTrees]

They talk sometimes. But no one watching this is Timmy, Faide or Mande, and even if they were, watch when they lose, communication can only help!

[@NoxyCZ]

I just can't go past rookie since I allways get team: lvl 65, 20, 74. Meanwhile everyone else in the loby is five fuckin' houndred.

[@ciccnick]

Sometimes low level randoms perform better than some 20 bomb pred trail players. So take those 20 bomb badges with a grain of salt

[@shadowmm1365]

Yeah yesterday I solo qued in ranked and got to really low level teammates they saw my stats and and elected me team leader my shots and advice was on point and we actually won the game with multiple plats diamonds and and masters I'm silver btw😂

[@blackheart1798]

6manners be crazy

[@Ale_Redondo]

Im totally stuck on solo Q plat 2.. plat 3 was way easier.. as far as i can see, in plat 2 u begin to q against diamonds and masters... The only way i can barelly survive is playing a legend with high escape chance, like loba, because fights go wrong 90% of the time

[@KimJay43]

Cheaters can cheat on console as well by having 0 recoil and faster rate of fire. I hear "extra" speedy G7’s and hemlocks, along with others, all the time and have even spectated/recorded them.

[@iSpinsy]

for console players, the cheaters found a way to get into console lobbies so there is some really hard cheats in plat and above. also, the lag switching is insane and ofc there's the usual zen users. I've lost so much rp to cheaters

[@kingky9600]

0:00 Music?

[@KingDonXVI]

I for some reason always get the most ignorant, disrespectful and racist teammates ever.

[@colbyc2273]

Hey don’t talk about me like that!

[@ikechukwuochonma4722]

The worst is getting out of plat 4, those plat 4 players are so bad is crazy. Those are the guys that spend the whole season grinding out of gold or got carried out of gold then they’re now stuck in plat. They make the game more harder than people that actually wanna rank up. I finally realized why apex added that you most get a win to enter a next tier rank in s18. Hardstuck gold 1 -plat 4 players are the worst this season. 90% of them aren’t meant to be in plat lobbies. Gold is just too easy this season that’s probably why

[@bobtheorigin]

If you play on console, you have a rising amount of strike pack users. A strike pack ia considered cheating... So no matter what platform you are on and what input you are using, the higher you rank, the higher the cheater per match rate.

[@SeanyBoyyyyyyyy]

It's impossible for rats to get points and I love that this season. I was forced to rat because both of my teammates disconnected at start of match, as a diamond player I managed to rat to 2nd place with 0kp...+15 points when I got back to lobby 😂 swear to god.

[@Djuane]

I love it. Im tired of Noobs getting to Masters by simply surviving by hiding. They dont deserve the badge

[@minnz3212]

I’ve been solo queuing, been playing conduit quite a bit recently. Just hit Diamond, if anyone is plat/diamond looking to squad up let me know… let’s hit masters!

[@tavinburgess7782]

drop your user. i’m tired of solo Q

[@custardtart7245]

I'm done with solo queuing so I'm down to play if you want

[@ImStunninqgaming]

I'm d3 rn and it took me 90 games...It's not hard you just have to be better... I dropped 2 20s in pubs this season, a 3kd in ranked, and if i was to offer any tip it would be not to feed any ideas in your head of delusion. Most of my friends list is masters S12-S19 and they tbh aren't real masters... (They are hard stuck P4 and D4) This season is a true test, and yes there are a lot of cheaters but there were in S5 also. If you make masters/pred this season hats off to you, if you didn't, congrats that's you REAL rank and should advertise as such from now on in discord and on TT 😈

[@Ed-fh2wh]

Big facts this season is gonna humble a lot of people, and put them exactly where they deserve to be at 😂

[@shmoodiee]

i have 600 games played in ranked this season and im diamond 4... IM GONNA LOSE IT!!

[@matthewfulton2931]

Mods and stacking

[@Emvymcla]

Loba is so nasty as a solo q

[@setokaiba5312]

Meh im always with "the hot drop craft me banners" team mates.......

[@PureFPS-1]

I’d communicate but I’m not over the age of 20 and people would prob just shit talk the whole time

[@oscarholloway4443]

ello mate

[@titus4166]

I’m a solo player. So I pug a lot. 99% of my games are with randoms. Any time I try to find a team they don’t play long enough. So, I’ll never be diamond or master. But I have fun either way. The problem rn is cheaters. If this continues apex will lose players.

[@august5k]

wattt

[@PeterMurrayj]

8:34 I'll give you advice. It's pretty simple and it's why I have an Xbox... Play Apex on a console

[@Stav6]

It’s actually soul crushing rn you can literally clear the 7th party and then the 8th will be there swiftly followed by the 9th and 10th it’s ridiculous feel like I’m fighting ads on Helldivers except there I’m having fun.

[@robertmarshall5982]

Without team mates it's a RIP

[@Sannitaurus]

Still stuck at plat 4 here lmao

[@MangosInTrees]

It’s rough out here 😅

[@An-it5sw]

Quit my job and i could reach masters, maybe 😂

[@mayaspeace8952]

Anybody down to run I’m plat 3 going for masters/ pred again

[@riccardoromanelli289]

Diamond lobbies right now are a shitshow… and we don’t even know when the first split is gonna end… does anybody knows?

[@Myhijra]

Mid way through the season it say when I look in the lobby in the game mode but 29 day or something

[@zenith_mac]

its not a influx the majority of cheaters iv come across are on accounts that are over L 500 ++ and most my team mates know where every one is and must be walling its over half I think

[@kevstern.5108]

i never meet people that talks in solo que

[@stoneboss0085]

I don't get how I go from a casual plat to hard stuck gold

[@Djuane]

Because season 20 is like season 13. You cant climb ranks anymore by simply surviving to the top 5 with no kills or assist. Especially in higher ranked lobbies where you lose more

[@stoneboss0085]

@@Djuane there's still 13 squads by storm 4

[@shadow-editzz]

Does anyone want to try and get to diamond with me?

[@iiTzVOID7520]

If u want add vOidd1 we have room for a third im pushing for diamond too

[@pony0110]

Leave conduit alone! Lol she was already nerrfed so hard

[@bigred7312]

I have no choice to solo quee i have ZERO people to play with always

[@imxcdre2640]

Anyone tryna run ranked??

[@user-eu6fx3uy3l]

Playing with randoms is absolutely miserable

[@itsAMP_GT]

Step 1 Be good

[@bbeckwith30gamer]

I feel I’m dying to cheaters every game

[@judasblewit]

Its hard because its not fun. At that point whats the point.

[@joshualuttrell7269]

PC players have to worry about cheaters, and can't opt-out of playing against controller players. wtf

[@sdy.deathcall9608]

Dude's crying about Conduit tac being something that no one else can do and he forgets Wraith been in game since season 0. Wraith is only legend that can totally go invincible. Only legend that can avoid ring damage. Lifeline tac no longer works out of ring, however phasing with Wraith is fine. Only legend that can do such

[@MangosInTrees]

dude those things are not even comparable lol. Wraith can easily be followed up on. If I'm actively one clipping someone conduit can literally save that player by pressing one button.

[@X-VI-MMIII]

@@MangosInTrees fr conduit tax is almost like a shield swap it’s pretty fast.

[@Ed-fh2wh]

@@MangosInTrees fax all the wraiths that I have took out most of the time is by following their trail. That only works on bot players. 😂