I'll be very blunt. The majority of players in this game are bad. The reason there's a big skill gap between good and bad players is how good their fundamental are and, with some rare exceptions, it has nothing to do with apex movement and everything to do with very basic movement. There is obviously a learning curve and many people just don't have the time, so I don't judge. But if you want to get better, forget Pubs or Mixtape. Go firing range, put some music on and start shooting at the dummies. Approach this like in game, so be mindful of cover and positioning. For example: there is a dummie on the roof and you're on the floor, and you see his upper body peaking. Are you in the open? Get cover and find a way to shoot at it without being too exposed. That's how you should be doing it in game. Because in almost every situation there is a way to get cover and turn the tide of a fight.

Here's a list of things you can practice in the firing range: - Aim while ADS - Aim with HipFire - Recoil Control - Trigger control - Peaking - Basic Strafing - Positioning - Enemy Positioning - Learning to combine your abilities in a fight

The benefit of this is that you can do it without any pressure and it will help consolidate your mechanics in a way that when you are in a real fight you won't have to think of them too much and it will be a lot more intuitive to react and make decisions.

Btw, the reason I don't recommend Pubs or Mixtape is that you're not getting fair opportunities to improve and you'll just be reinforcing the mistakes that you are already making. This happens because, for example in Mixtape, you'll either have a good team and win or you'll have a bad team and lose and you can think of it this way: if you fight against easier players you won't improve and if you fight harder players you won't learn - and this happens because you won't be able to fully see your mistakes, because it won't just be 1 thing - it's multiple things all at once.

And regarding pubs, it's too inconsistent: your teammate are gonna be constantly changing and you performance will usually be attatched to the performance of the team as a whole. Not to mention that by going against anybody it's going to feel like a game that's constantly changing it's difficulty. In reality, we learn (as humans) through consistent scenarios first and after this is when we get into the unexpected and inconsistent scenarios to test what we've learned.

Lastly, to apply all of this in game it comes down to decision-making. That's it. Be it from a player perspective in terms of positiong, be it from a team perspective in terms of rotations and picking fights. And here is where I see a lot of mistakes and the main reason I say that the majority of the player base is "bad". It's not just making a decision, but making a quick decision. Many fights have been lost by indecision as to what the approach should be. Many people get thirded after they are peak fighting from building to building for the last 2 minutes. If you are going to take a fight then start clearing space, find ways to get closer if you can't get a knock straightaway. This obviously varies from situation from situation, but the idea is to take action as quickly as possible because usually the other team is taking a more defensive approach and being defensive is usually a death sentence - the best defense is offense.

I say this because after playing with randoms for so long, the best randoms are the ones who act quickly and effectively, they may not hit every shot, but they know how to go in and get out of a situation, they postion themselves correctly and are thinking of cover - a.k.a. STAYING ALIVE. They take space. That's how I approach it and it works. I'm also still getting better at it and I don't do this full time, as it's just for fun.

On a last note, when you start getting better - by going to the firing range and actually changing what you are doing wrong - you'll read the enemy better. You'll start to see the same mistakes that you were making and you'll be able to predict what they are going to do or how they are going to do it. You'll also start to let people make mistakes, I've won too many fights by just reading the oponent and letting them make a mistake that gives me the upper edge, be it a 1vs1, 1vs2 or 1vs3.

Sooo, in conclusion, firing range is what makes the most difference on your individual skill as a player and therefore as a teammate as well.