There are two ranked modes: Ranked Leagues for Battle Royale and Ranked Arenas for 
Arenas.
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Ranked Leagues[]
Ranked Leagues Information Screen
Ranked Leagues is a game mode introduced in 
Season 2. 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 
Season 4, 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 starts from match is being connected, all the way up to the entire team being eliminated. Even after a player is 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. If one or both teammates go AFK, or seen partially disconnect (that is to say, their name banner still shows in HUD), leaving is considered as abandoning and results in a penalty. If the player does not have a full team (either due to teammates disconnect/abandoning or failure to fill by matchmaking), player must wait until they are in the dropship before they can leave.
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[]
Screen displayed when a player hits three used forgiveness abandons.
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.[note 1])
- 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.
| Tier | RP Needed | Entry Cost | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Bronze IV, III, II, I
|
0 | 300 | 600 | 900 | Free |
 Silver IV, III, II, I
|
1200 | 1600 | 2000 | 2400 | −12 RP |
 Gold IV, III, II, I
|
2800 | 3300 | 3800 | 4300 | −24 RP |
 Platinum IV, III, II, I
|
4800 | 5400 | 6000 | 6600 | −36 RP |
 Diamond IV, III, II, I
|
7200 | 7900 | 8600 | 9300 | −48 RP |
 Master
|
10,000 | −60 RP | |||
 Apex Predator
|
Top 750 players | ||||
Progression[]
RP is given to players after each match currently based on two factors: Placement and 
Kills / 
Assists. Each kill/assist is typically worth 10 RP, though placement and the tier delta of the victim can greatly affect this.
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 
Surveillance Drone.
| Placement | 14th+ | 13th | 12th | 11th | 10th | 9th | 8th | 7th | 6th | 5th | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 1st |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RP given | 0 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 60 | 100 | ||||||
| Bonus RP per K/A | 0 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 15 | |||||||||
Killing (or getting an assist on) a player of a higher tier rewards more RP. Inversely, killing (or getting an assist on) a player of a lower tier rewards less RP. Master and Apex Predator are treated as the same tier.
| Tier delta | K/A RP |
|---|---|
| −3 | 3 |
| −2 | 5 |
| −1 | 8 |
| 0 | 10 |
| +1 | 12 |
| +2 | 15 |
| +3 | 20 |
The maximum amount of RP gained from kills/assists is 175.
Ranked Seasons[]
Note: since the introduction of Ranked Splits in Season 4, 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.
| Season | Duration | Map | Rewards |
|---|---|---|---|
 Season 2 |
July 02, 2019 - October 01, 2019 |
 Kings Canyon |
|
 Season 3 |
October 01, 2019 - February 04, 2020 |
 World's Edge |
|
 Season 4 |
February 04, 2020 - March 24, 2020 |
 World's Edge |
|
| March 24, 2020 - May 12, 2020 |
Kings Canyon | ||
 Season 5 |
May 12, 2020 - June 30, 2020 |
 Kings Canyon |
|
| June 30, 2020 - August 18, 2020 |
World's Edge | ||
 Season 6 |
August 18, 2020 - September 29, 2020 |
 World's Edge |
|
| September 29, 2020 - November 04, 2020 |
Kings Canyon | ||
 Season 7 |
November 04, 2020 - December 15, 2020 |
 Olympus |
|
| December 15, 2020 - February 02, 2021 |
World's Edge | ||
 Season 8 |
February 02, 2021 - March 23, 2021 |
 Kings Canyon |
|
| March 23, 2021 - May 04, 2021 |
Olympus | ||
 Season 9 |
May 04, 2021 - June 15, 2021 |
World's Edge |
|
| June 15, 2021 - August 03, 2021 |
 Olympus | ||
 Season 10 |
August 03, 2021 - September 28, 2021 |
 World's Edge |
|
| September 28, 2021 - November 02, 2021 |
Kings Canyon | ||
 Season 11 |
November 02, 2021 - December 21, 2021 |
 Storm Point |
|
| December 21, 2021 - February 08, 2022 |
World's Edge |
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 Season 4 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.
| Season |  Bronze
|
 Silver
|
 Gold
|
 Platinum
|
 Diamond
|
 Master /  Apex Predator
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 5.2% | 40.0% | 35.7% | 16.8% | 2.1% | 0.2% |
| 3 | 3.9% | 29.1% | 35.3% | 23.6% | 7.1% | 1.0% |
| 4 | 17.54% | 27.2% | 33.72% | 18.82% | 2.51% | 0.21% |
| 5 | 16.22% | 22.83% | 32.31% | 23.96% | 4.37% | 0.31% |
| 6 | 17.76% | 26.23% | 36.25% | 17.75% | 1.89% | 0.12% |
| 7 | 16.35% | 23.86% | 32.09% | 23.13% | 4.37% | 0.2% |
| 8 | 17.87% | 17.86% | 31.84% | 26.16% | 5.86% | 0.4% |
Trivia[]
- Ranked series used to be numbered starting from 1. Since Ranked Leagues was introduced in
Season 2, 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 Season 6.
Gallery[]
Season 2 Ranked Overview 
Season 3 Ranked Overview 
Season 4 Ranked Overview Season 7 Ranked Overview Season 8 Ranked Overview Season 11 Ranked Overview
Ranked Arenas[]
Ranked Arenas is a game mode introduced in 
Season 10.
Mechanics[]
Ranked matches play the same as the normal Arenas with the only difference being the matchmaking and the awarding of Arenas Points (AP) after every match.
In Ranked Arenas, there are two separate measures of a player's skill: a visible rank/AP and an invisible MMR (matchmaking rating) score. MMR is based on performance. So for example, if a Sliver player consistently performs like a Platinum player, that Silver player will have Platinum-level MMR and will be matched with other players of similar MMR. If so, that player will earn more AP upon wins and lose less AP upon losses so that their visible rank catches up to their MMR, though the MMR will drop if the player loses.
10 placement matches are played in order to determine a player's initial rank and MMR. Each season or mid-season split is paired with a soft MMR reset, and the player would have to do placements again. (10 for seasons and 5 for splits.)
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.
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 Arenas, these are the penalties:
- A minimum of 10 minutes lockout from ALL modes, including Firing Range and Training.
- Automatic loss.
Loss Forgiveness[]
Screen displayed when a player hits three used forgiveness abandons.
Loss Forgiveness is when a player would lose AP in a match and all AP loss becomes zero.
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.[note 2])
- 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.
Unlike the Ranked Leagues, players can rank down tiers in Ranked Arenas.
| Tier | AP Needed | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronze IV, III, II, I
|
1 | 400 | 800 | 1200 |
| Silver IV, III, II, I
|
1600 | 2000 | 2400 | 2800 |
| Gold IV, III, II, I
|
3200 | 3600 | 4000 | 4400 |
| Platinum IV, III, II, I
|
4800 | 5200 | 5600 | 6000 |
| Diamond IV, III, II, I
|
6400 | 6800 | 7200 | 7600 |
| Master
|
8000 | |||
| Apex Predator
|
Top 750 players | |||
Progression[]
Players gain AP if they win and lose AP if they lose. Unlike the Ranked Leagues, kills/assists do not count for AP.
History[]
| Patch notes |
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Notes[]
- ↑ There is an exception to this: If player A joins the server, and player B joins player A's team, but before B finishes loading in player A disconnects. If player C then joins player B's team, from the server's perspective players B and C have had a full squad, thus player A leaving doesn't necessarily give them loss forgiveness, especially if A was a party mate of B.
- ↑ There is an exception to this: If player A joins the server, and player B joins player A's team, but before B finishes loading in player A disconnects. If player C then joins player B's team, from the server's perspective players B and C have had a full squad, thus player A leaving doesn't necessarily give them loss forgiveness, especially if A was a party mate of B.
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