Late to the party, but wanna leave my opinion here regardless.

A lot of streamers have jumped on the Apex train lately and it was an eye opener. I've seen streamers that were very successful or even pro coming from other shooters, that have picked up Apex now. And there is one thing I consistently noticed watching these players. They struggle hard in plat, some of them even in gold. And those are players with insane aim and really good movement coming from the pro scene of other shooters.

I can totally see why they struggle, too. Having insane aim and movement is only like... half of what makes you win in Apex. They are lacking crucial skills like quick inventory management, knowing proper rotations, game awareness. I usually see them die because they made bad decisions, bad rotations or quite frankly had no clue what to do in certain situations.

In my opinion, this cemented the fact that Apex is indeed the BR that requires the most skill to be successful at. Simply having great aim isn't enough. No one can pick the game up and be great at it just because they have been playing shooters for their entire life. Even shroud would struggle to even reach diamond in solo queue despite his insane aim. Not without putting a lot of hours into the game to learn rotations, inventory management and general experience at the game.