Apex Legends ban wave wipes out Predator players abusing Ranked exploit
An Apex Legends ban wave has hit cheaters abusing exploits to climb the Ranked ladder in battle royale and Arenas, including a total of 71 Predator players.
In any game with a Ranked system, there’s more than likely going to be players that cheat to gain an advantage over the competition, and Apex Legends is certainly no different.
Whether it’s third-party software, exploits, or DDoSing entire servers, Respawn is constantly battling to keep matches balanced and fair for the community.
Although Apex uses the Easy-anti cheat system to automatically detect players using hacks, it normally requires someone to manually ban players abusing exploits.
Well, that’s exactly what’s happened recently, with a ban wave hitting hackers and exploiters that included a huge amount of Predator players.
Ban wave wipes out Apex Legends Ranked exploiters
Taking to Twitter on February 2, Security Analyst at RespawnConor ‘Hideouts’ Fordannounced that a ban wave had suspended players abusing a kill farming glitch and “purged” the leaderboards of suspended cheaters in Arenas.
While a lot of these players were around the average ranks, a total of71 suspensionswere handed out to Predator players on console.
44 Xbox Predatorsand27 PS4 Predatorswere removed from the leaderboards due to Ranked exploits.
“Ranked leaderboards are cleaned of players who were suspended for kill farming & lobby glitch… Other arenas leaderboards have been purged of the suspended exploiters (44 xbox preds, 27 ps4 preds)”.
Ranked leaderboards are cleaned of players who were suspended for kill farming & lobby glitchArenas ranked pc leaderboards have been purged of all permanently banned cheaters.Other arenas leaderboards have been purged of the suspended exploiters (44 xbox preds, 27 ps4 preds)
— Conor Ford / Hideouts (@RSPN_Hideouts)August 12, 2025
This is thesecond ban wave Respawn has announcedin the last two weeks, suggesting they’re stepping up their efforts to clear out Ranked of cheaters and exploiters.
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While Respawn’s battle against cheaters will likely never end in Apex, it’s great to them purging the leaderboards of cheaters and making Ranked more balanced, especially at higher tiers.
