>>81552620
Cold approaches don't work unless you're 8/10 (like with tinder) and whatnot. You have to clear a high attractiveness bar for women to entertain a cold approach.
Knowing them through everyday life, however, lowers this bar significantly. If you can prove you're not a creep, that bar drops to like a 6/10 for most women if you're a smooth talker, sometimes even lower if you have a good body or really interesting hobbies and interests (which have the added benefit of just making you happier in of themselves).
4/10s and below are genuinely kind of screwed however, and forced to pick scraps among ran through ugly women who have realized they must settle for their looksmatch.