Apex Legends Ranked System: All Ranks, RP and Splits (Season 31)

Apex Legends has 8 ranks: Rookie, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Master and Apex Predator. Rookie through Diamond have four divisions each (IV to I), Master has none, and Apex Predator is the top 750 Master players on each platform. You pay an RP entry cost each match and earn RP back from placement, kills and assists.

Apex Legends ranked is changing. Season 31, Cipher, launched on November 3, 2026, and is in its first ranked split. It adds Legend bans in Diamond and higher matches and changes entry costs in mixed-skill lobbies. The full ranked overhaul, with new ranks like Iron, Emerald and Grandmaster, is planned for Season 32 in early 2027. This guide explains how ranked works right now and what is coming.

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Apex Legends Ranked Mode At A Glance

The Apex ranked mode is a competitive mode where similarly ranked players compete against each other to win and rank up. Players are matched to approximately the same skill level based on their current rank in order to ensure fairer and more competitive matches. To access ranked, you need to reach account level 20. Respawn removed the Road to Ranked challenges in Season 31.

In Apex Legends, the ranked system is tied to seasons and at the end of the season, players receive ranked rewards. Each season is divided into two ranked splits of about six to seven weeks. At the start of split two, your rank gets a soft reset. For example, Diamond II and I drop to Platinum II, and Master and above drop to Platinum I. The progress of each account is determined by rank points (RP), and to start a ranked match, you must deposit a certain amount of RP, which will depend on your current rank. New ranked players are placed by a hidden skill value from their Unranked Trios matches, so they start in Rookie or higher. If you played ranked last season, your starting rank comes from your hidden ranked skill value. At the start of Split 2, ranks get a soft reset to a set point based on your rank.

About The Latest Updates and Changes

The current season, Season 31, Cipher, launched on November 3, 2026, the day Season 30 (Marked) ended. Split 1 is live now, and Respawn has not announced when Split 2 starts. Per-rank entry costs did not change, but Season 31 adds the ranked changes below. Outside ranked, Crypto was reworked, and pubs and ranked rotate Storm Point, E-District Night and Broken Moon.

Respawn’s Ranked Roadmap (October 20, 2026) and the Cipher patch notes (November 2, 2026) set out the Season 31 changes. Matches with Diamond or higher players have a Legend ban phase: each player requests one ban, and two Legends are banned at random, weighted by the requests. Each lobby also gets a Lobby Tier, the median of all Squad Tiers: squads two or more tiers below it play a Challenger match and pay 30% less RP to enter, and squads two or more tiers above it play a Goliath match and pay 50% more. Players at risk of demotion get three Demotion Shields: one is used each time a match would demote you, and the protection ends when the shields run out or you earn enough RP to be safe. In Season 32 (early 2027), Iron replaces Rookie, a new Emerald rank sits between Platinum and Diamond, Masters gets four divisions, and Grandmaster becomes the top rank.

Squad Tier is based on your squad’s average RP, and in a premade squad every member counts as having the group’s highest RP. If a teammate never connects, your Squad Tier drops by one tier. If fewer than four different Legends are requested in the ban phase, the pool is filled from last week’s most-played Legends. In the match, a new Ranked tab in your inventory shows the scoring rules and your RP goals, and the kill feed shows the RP you earn.

Ranked Ladders: weekly Ranked Ladders run Tuesday to Sunday during Split 1: November 10 to 15, November 17 to 22, November 24 to 29, December 1 to 6 and December 8 to 13, 2026. Play five ranked matches in a week to get a Ladder Score, which is built from your best RP results. Respawn says Weekly Ladders end in Season 32.

One long-standing rule affects matchmaking for premade squads: players who queue together for a ranked match must be within two ranks of each other. This is intended to prevent rank boosting, where a higher-ranked player takes a lower-ranked friend into a game, thereby helping them rank up. Limiting the spread of ranks in an Apex match will make the games more fair, giving both teams the same chance of winning.

All Apex Legends Ranks In Order

The Apex ranking system has 8 ranks. Rookie through Diamond each have four divisions, from IV (lowest) to I (highest). Master has no divisions, and Apex Predator is the top 750 Master players on each platform. You must clear each division to move up.

What Is RP In Apex Legends?

Ranked Points are points that a player receives for winning and spends for participating in a ranked game. RP characterizes a player’s progress in rank.

RP Distribution During Matches

RP is awarded to players after each match and depends on their performance. The amount of RP received depends on the place taken at the end of the match, as well as on kills and assists. You can learn more about the Apex ranked distribution below.

Respawn adjusts these values from season to season and does not publish a current table, so treat the numbers as a guide. Season 31 in-game screens show slightly different values, for example 100 RP for 2nd place and 22 RP per kill or assist for 1st. What is confirmed: the higher you place, the more each kill is worth; after eight kills, each kill, assist and participation is worth half; and killing a higher-ranked player gives a bonus of 15% to 50%.

How To Earn More RP?

In order to get more RP, you obviously need to play well and take high places in the match results – to be at least in the top 5. Kills and assists will additionally bring RP, and it will also be a bonus if you eliminate a player of a higher rank than you in the match. If you are among the top 5 players in several matches in a row, you get a streak bonus that grows by 10 RP with each extra top-five finish, up to 40 RP.

RP Entry Fees

When playing ranked games, a certain amount of RP is withdrawn for each match, which depends on your current rank in Apex. Since Season 31, it also depends on the lobby: squads two or more tiers below the Lobby Tier pay 30% less, and squads two or more tiers above it pay 50% more. To help you understand better, I have compiled the table below: