Among the many changes coming in Apex Legends Season 2 is a brand new ranked play system, a long-demanded feature for the popular battle royale game. The new ranked mode features a multi-tiered ranking system with different rewards for each tier. Just ahead of Season 2's launch, Respawn detailed how ranked play will work in Season 2, including how players can advance to new tiers and what players can expect to find as they progress to higher levels of play.

Ranked progression in Apex Legends will work in a similar way to many other games that have ranked modes. There are six total rank tiers in the Ranked League: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, and Apex Predator. Each tier (except Apex Predator) is divided up into four divisions, where Division IV is the lowest and Division I is the highest in that tier.

All players start Season 2 at Bronze IV, the lowest possible rank, and work their way up by securing kills and surviving the longest. Ranked Points (RP) is a currency that players will use to queue into ranked matches for any tier higher than Bronze. Silver will cost 1 RP, and the cost increases by 1 RP for each tier up, capping out at 5 RP for an Apex Predator match.

RP is also used to determine rank. Players earn 1 RP per kill per match, up to a cap of 5 RP for kills. Players will also earn RP based on placement. Placing in the Top 10 awards 2 RP, Top 5 is 4 RP, Top 3 nets 7 RP, and a win will earn 12 RP. These do not stack, so the maximum RP players can earn per match is 17 (5 kills and a win). When queuing with friends after downloading the massive Apex Legends Season 2 update, players will be queued based on the highest rank of the squad, for better or for worse.

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Thankfully, players cannot be demoted from a rank once they break into it. So if a player is struggling in Diamond III, they will remain in Diamond III no matter how many losses they accrue. This can be helpful, as players may have a hard time adjusting to the updated Apex Legends map coming in Season 2. Players will earn rewards based on their highest tier achieved, so hopefully, players have what it takes to reach Apex Predator for those exclusive rewards.

Apex Legends is available now for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

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