Ranked Leagues

Ranked Leagues is a game mode introduced in. It differs from the normal Play Apex game mode in that players are matched with other players of the same or adjacent tier.

The Ranked Leagues seasons coincide with the main seasons. At the end of a season, players receive a reward based on their rank.

Mechanics
Ranked matches play the same as the normal Play Apex with the only difference being the matchmaking and the awarding of Ranked Points (RP) after every match. In Ranked, players are matched with players of the same or similar tier with placement, kills, and assists giving away RP which is used to measure progress to the next tier. A set amount of RP is also deducted for each tier after Bronze.

Starting in, Ranked Seasons are divided into "splits". Tiers reset after each split and the player's final ranked rewards are determined by the highest rank reached on either split.

Abandon and Penalties
Prematurely leaving matches results in an abandon penalty. This includes any time from character select all the way up to the player being eliminated. Even after being eliminated, players will still receive penalties if they leave while their banners are still available to be picked up. If their banners do get picked up, players must wait 2 minutes and 30 seconds before they can leave without penalties.

Disconnecting due to server issues or client end will also result in penalties if the player fails to reconnect within 2 minutes. Even if the player does not have a full team (either due to teammates disconnect/leave or failure to fill by matchmaking) or if one or both teammates go AFK, abandoning results in a penalty. Players will be warned via the menus if their leaving may trigger abandon penalties; if the warning does not show up, players are free to leave, subject to the server's calculation.

In Ranked Leagues, these are the penalties:
 * A minimum of 10 minutes lockout from ALL modes, including Firing Range and Training.
 * Forfeiture of any RP earned, and a double subtraction of the entry cost. For example, an abandon in Silver will yield −24 RP, while doing so in Gold will yield −48 RP.

Loss Forgiveness
Loss Forgiveness is when a player would lose RP in a match and all RP loss becomes zero. For example, a player places last in a Diamond match with two kills. Normally this results in −28 RP, but with loss forgiveness, this becomes 0.

Loss Forgiveness is granted in the following scenarios:
 * A match-made teammate abandons the game. (This does NOT apply if the player is partied with the leaver; in that case, all members of the party get penalized.)
 * The player gets to the start of the drop sequence and does not have a full squad. (Leaving before that results in an abandon penalty. )
 * The player gets an unexpected quit, once per 24 hours. If the player exceeds this three times during a season, the player loses all forgiveness for the remainder of that season and all further unexpected quits will incur penalties.

Tiers
Players are divided into seven tiers, each with four divisions, except Master and Apex Predator where players are ranked globally via their current RP. The rankings are based on platform.

Players cannot rank down tiers, but they can rank down the divisions within those tiers. The exception is Apex Predator, since Apex Predator is defined as the top 750 players.

Progression
RP is given to players after each match currently based on two factors: Placement and Kills /  Assists. The maximum number of kills/assists that can count for RP is 6.

Assists occur if the player damaged an enemy within 10 seconds of that enemy getting downed by someone else, and that enemy is eliminated. Crypto can also get assists by scanning enemies with his.

RP gain/loss per Tier
Bronze= Silver= Gold= Platinum= Diamond= Master/Apex Predator= ⬤ - The player has lost RP. ⬤ - The player is at risk of a net zero or negative RP gain next game. ⬤ - The player is guaranteed to have a net positive RP gain next game.

Ranked Seasons
Note: since the introduction of Ranked Splits in, it's possible to receive an animated Badge instead of a static one if the same Tier is reached in both splits of each Ranked Season.

Ranked placement results
The following are the distributions for each season among all players who have played more than 5 hours of Ranked. The data from onward is only for Split 2, and may not be an accurate representation of Split 1. Apex Predator is included in Master, though before the introduction of the Master tier in Season 4, it was just Apex Predator.

Trivia

 * Ranked series used to be numbered starting from 1. Since Ranked Leagues was introduced in, this meant that each ranked series would be 1 number lower than the season number, causing some minor confusion. It was changed so that the numbers match the seasons starting with.