Apex Legends Season 13 Ranked Changes Guide: What's New And How To Avoid Demotion

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Apex Legends Season 13 is live, adding new playable legend Newcastle, the Downed Beast point-of-interest to Storm Point, and plenty of balancing adjustments (all of which are listed in the Season 13 patch notes). The new season also makes some interesting adjustments to the Ranked system.

Starting in Season 13, how you earn Ranked Points (RP) has changed, and you are no longer safe from demotion once you've reached a new medal tier--in the past, reaching Gold meant you couldn't ever drop back down to Silver, but that's no longer always the case. Below, we cover everything you need to know about what's changed with Ranked and how to avoid being demoted.

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Season 13 introduces a new medal tier: Rookie. This new tier will sit below Bronze, acting as the introductory level for new players who are playing Ranked for the first time.

That means the new path in Ranked is: Rookie → Bronze → Silver → Gold → Platinum → Diamond → Master/Predator.

This does mean that the Bronze tier now has an entry cost, presenting a risk to queue into a Ranked match as soon as you're in what was Apex Legends' previously lowest tier. And on that note, entry costs have changed as well.

For those not in the know, queueing into Ranked will cost you a set amount of RP per match, the very points you need to earn in order to rise in Ranked. This means that to earn RP, you have to gain enough during a match to offset the amount you're spending just to queue in.

Previously, every medal tier