If you're trying to figure out how to get easy lobbies in Warzone, you're probably looking for what the community calls bot lobbies: public matches where the average opponent is noticeably less experienced than you're used to.

These aren't necessarily matches filled with actual AI. “Bot lobby” is Warzone slang for a softer lobby where players tend to have weaker movement, slower reactions, worse rotations, or less optimized loadouts.

There is no guaranteed bot-lobby method, but your playlist, party, playtime, recent performance, and available matchmaking pool can all affect the lobbies you find.

How to get easier lobbies in Warzone: 6 fast ways

The best legitimate methods to try are:

1. Play during off-peak hours
2. Queue with less experienced friends
3. Play standard modes instead of Ranked
4. Try different Battle Royale and Resurgence playlists
5. Experiment with No Fill
6. Avoid sacrificing a good connection just to chase supposedly easier regions

Play Warzone during off-peak hours

Try playing during early mornings or quieter weekdays.

When fewer people are online in your region, Warzone has a smaller pool available to build a lobby. This can sometimes create a wider mixture of skill levels and result in easier matches.

It's not guaranteed.

A smaller population can also mean longer queues, higher ping, or more difficult opponents. Activision says connection and time-to-match are major matchmaking priorities, so Warzone still has to balance lobby quality against finding you a playable match.

Play with less experienced friends

If you've played Warzone for years, you've probably noticed that matches can feel different depending on your squad.

Queuing with genuinely less experienced friends can change the matchmaking environment compared with running a full squad of strong players.

However, don't assume Warzone simply calculates your squad's average K/D. Activision hasn't published a formula confirming that.

This is also different from creating a low-skill account specifically to manipulate matchmaking.

Avoid Ranked Play

If you want easier Warzone lobbies, stick to public Battle Royale or Resurgence rather than Ranked.

Ranked is built around competitive progression, so it makes little sense to search there for a relaxed session.

Normal playlists can still be extremely competitive, but they're the better starting point when your priority is simply finding less intense matches.

Switch between Battle Royale and Resurgence

Don't spend an entire session forcing the same playlist when every lobby feels sweaty.

Try switching between Battle Royale, Resurgence, and available LTMs.

Each playlist has a different active population, which changes the pool Warzone can use to create your match.

Resurgence can also feel easier even when the opponents aren't significantly worse because redeployments give you more chances to recover from a bad fight.

Does No Fill give you easier Warzone lobbies?

No Fill is sometimes recommended as a way to find easier Warzone lobbies, but it isn't confirmed.

The theory is that entering a team playlist without teammates puts you at a disadvantage and may affect the lobby Warzone gives you. 

Activision hasn't confirmed that No Fill deliberately lowers opponent skill.

It's worth experimenting with, but remember that even a softer Quads lobby can be difficult when you're fighting teams alone.

Does losing give you easier Warzone lobbies?

Recent performance matters, but don't intentionally throw matches.

Activision says its skill measurement considers overall performance including kills, deaths, wins, losses, mode selection, and recent matches, and that this measurement continually updates as you play.

That helps explain why lobby difficulty can seem to change throughout a session.

However, deliberately dying or performing badly to get weaker opponents is reverse boosting. Just play normally and let your actual performance determine your matchmaking.

Do new Warzone accounts get easier lobbies?

New accounts have very little performance history, which is why fresh accounts are commonly associated with easier Warzone lobbies.

Creating a new account as one potential bot-lobby method, although it also warns about using fresh accounts to manipulate matchmaking.

For a genuine new player, easier early matches make sense while the game establishes their performance.

For an experienced player, creating accounts specifically to face beginners is smurfing rather than a reliable long-term strategy.

Do VPNs give you easier Warzone lobbies?

A VPN does not guarantee bot lobbies.

VPN methods generally try to put you into a different regional matchmaking pool. The problem is that changing your routing can also increase latency.

That's particularly important in Warzone because Activision describes connection as the most heavily weighted matchmaking factor.

I'd take a good 20-30 ms lobby over chasing a supposed bot lobby with noticeably worse latency. Easier opponents don't help much if you're losing gunfights to your connection.

Does turning off crossplay give you easier lobbies?

Turning off crossplay changes the available player pool rather than directly making your opponents worse.

On PlayStation, for example, you can disable Crossplay from the Account & Network settings. Doing so reduces the number of available players and can increase matchmaking times.

It may make your matches feel different, but crossplay off isn't a bot-lobby setting.

What about 2 boxing in Warzone?

2 boxing is a matchmaking exploit used to deliberately get easier Warzone lobbies.

It involves using a second low-skill account to search for weaker matches and getting the main account into that lobby.

That's very different from naturally getting a bot lobby.

If you see extremely high-kill Warzone gameplay where the opponents seem unusually weak, matchmaking manipulation is one possible explanation, but you can't determine that from the gameplay alone.