Smurfs are a problem but I’m encountering very frequently players with 49.5% winrate over their 500 matches in the season, out of which 200 happens to be their main hero at 53% winrate, and they use the hero perfectly.
Normally you should expect it’s just micro. Due to my improved confidence the last few weeks, I recall a good bunch of matches looking really scary, and/or starting badly, but persistence has overwhelmed the enemies. Sure, I have some similar losses as well, some outright throws.
Expecting someone to be smurf is also a coping mechanism. A way to deny that someone your rank can play so well mechanically.
Well it’s easy actually to spot Smurfs, its usually low level accounts with 65%+ winrate and high KDA of 5+, because average players have a KDA around 2-4 with. That’s at least what I have experienced between bronze - gold.
You also see most smurfs in general chat also only want to play with other smurfs in SL or in QM.
But on EU general chat they get flamed on and called bad and boosted and they should play alone and dont need help.
Or cant win games againts players in thier own league and need players better then themself to join his team and help him rank up higher then his own skill.
I mean I’ll admit I try to report the obvious smurfs but that’s not jut “better” that’s obviously at least a high plat in a silver rank, watching someone be a literal perfect alarak. And yet the game at the end somehow thinks my team was favoured in the MMR and lose the above 200 for that stomp as a result.
So you’re abusing the system for your own sake? Actually I would like, if you get banned for that, because you abuse the feature, because there is no valid reason to report smurfs for good reasons. You are part of the problem why this community is called “soft” or “toxic” with your behaviour to abuse this already horrible report system.
I remember lucifer said that statistically “hero damage” from lower players isn’t much lower than from high players, he concluded that lower players can know their heroes well. That means this Alarak player can just be dedicated to this hero and be good with him, but it doesn’t mean he is a smurf.
If we had a bigger playerbase this could be possible, but not in the current spot. But why would you increase the requirements for QM? It doesn’t make sense.
Ye i agree with this. Other games does it aswell like in Smite that i have played too.
They want you to have at least 30 champions mastered before ranked opens up
QM you can just say you need to be at least account lvl 10 to join so newbies cant just walk in into a qm without having any clue about how the game works. Or a second solution.
Force new accounts to complete the ingame turorial and 3 AI games before QM opens up.
I can understand restriction for ranked, but why would you do that for a mode called “QUICKMATCH”? It doesn’t make sense to me, I don’t expect quality games in QM…
It already forces you to play the tutorial level, you can’t do more, if you want a healthy game, except you create pve content with story, where you teach mechaniques as well.
I am mad about trolls, afks or feeders in ranked, but I don’t care about them in QM. This mode is inbalanced by it’s design, where you get unfair comps, it isn’t supposed to be balanced.
Usually the minority of games has “headless chickens”, most of the time I rage about weird comps like 4-5 assas with no frontline against bruisers like the match I posted in salt mines.
Edit: Frog, what happend to your Brightwing avatar?! Copying Minky?!
In theory damage output would be higher overall in lower ranks because focus fire is harder to get there, this also means that the tanks can take more damage and the healers can heal more because AOE healers in particular are going to get a lot done
Like it or not there are some mechanical elements of some of the more difficult heroes that mid silvers will not get and stay in silver for longer then 10 games Alarak being the prime example.
