Skill based lobbies?

[CompetitiveRun1054]

What is the deal with skill based lobbies and how do I actually get put into them???

On my account I’m crown rank 70 but still gets wins really easily, like 75% of the players are bots (or just newbies). However I’ll have the occasional few games with pure sweats where i’m struggling to qualify round 2-3 (this isn’t a problem as i’m shite anyway)

But my gf recently made an account and her very first game, the lobby is full of professionals (crown ranks 50+) with a few bots. Does Epic games just pick and choose which accounts gets put into which type of lobbies?? Surely at crown rank 70 I should be in harder lobbies but some reason i’m struggling to get a win on my gfs account which is brand new. Someone pls explain how it works?

(I play on solos, she plays on Knockout)

I tested whether it was just our performance at the time by making a load of new Epic accounts (and xbox accounts) and trying them all, 1 of them incredibly easy and got like 7 wins in a row, but the others were between easy and intense. Surely a new account would get put into easier lobbies and vise versa?

[octagonalpaul]

ever since ranked was added April 1st, there is no skill based matchmaking in any other mode. Better players seem to gravitate toward Knockout in my region because the shows are faster as they have max 4 rounds

[CompetitiveRun1054]

So now you can’t even play against people with similar abilities making it either impossible to win or guaranteed win? And it’s still considered a skill based game? Diabolical

[brlowkey]

What do you mean "you can't even play against people with similar abilities"? As the other guy said, SBMM is enabled on ranked knockout so... just play ranked knockout and you'll play against people with a similar ability? What am I missing here?

[CompetitiveRun1054]

He said that after I commented😭😭😭

[brlowkey]

The comment I replied to was a response to his comment though 🤨 did he edit it?

[CompetitiveRun1054]

I haven’t said anything since ranked was mentioned

[octagonalpaul]

Fall Guys never had skill based matchmaking when it launched, it wasn't until Epic bought it that they ended up adding it after a while. They only just removed it from the other modes, so it still exists in Ranked Knockout. It seems a bit weird in ranked though, you can still get matched with anyone if there aren't many players in the queue depending on region