Platoon
Two or three players queuing together and placed on the same team, coordinating by voice rather than by map ping.
Also known as platooning, toon, squad.
A platoon enters the queue as a unit. The matchmaker mirrors it on the other side where it can, but the advantage is not the composition, it is that three players who are talking to each other arrive at the same place at the same time.
It is the single largest lever on win rate. A strong three-player platoon can decide a flank in the first two minutes, which is why a platooned win rate and a solo win rate are read as different numbers.
Related terms
Win rateThe share of battles a player has won, the one statistic that measures outcomes rather than personal output.MatchmakingThe system that builds the two teams of a random battle, balancing them by battle tier, vehicle class and platoons rather than by player skill.Random BattlesThe main queue: fifteen against fifteen, teams assembled by the matchmaker, on a rotating pool of maps.