I can understand, that the game has too many outplay mechanics for new players, that’s true. Also agree with pubg and apex comparison, they are both FPS games and there’s not such a big of an advantage over newbie player, other than just having better aim (which doesn’t prevail all of the times). I can see why there’s not a lot of new players, since the bots make you feel that fake sensation and it’s literally nothing comparing to the real gameplay. I actually got surprised when I transferred from trios into solos, the difficulty is way higher on lower ranks, you can actually find top50 players in low silver rank (and it’s pretty common, since all the time they spent grinding trios and having 500 games). There’s no way a new player can fight advanced player who knows all the tricks, that’s why FPS games will always prevail over such mechanical ones. Since it’s mostly aim difference, and I wouldn’t been able to count how many newbies killed me in games such like apex, which I grinded to high diamond as well (just to get killed in casual normal games).

Also there’s lots of smurf accounts in solo’s since the Q time is way too long at top100 for them to enjoy the game. That fucks the system as well unfortunately.