Apex Scraps Solo-Only Ranked for Diamond and Up After the Test Made Lobbies Worse

Respawn published its Ranked matchmaking test results on September 30. Locking Diamond, Master, and Predator players into solo queue broke up premade stacks, but it spread top players across more squads, so Diamond players saw them in more matches, and Ranked play fell among high-tier duos and trios. A second test limiting premades to one tier apart barely changed anything. Neither change ships permanently, and Respawn says bigger Ranked changes land in Seasons 31 and 32.