Avoid as enemy?

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Just a quick question. Having the system avoid as teammate is good for avoiding thrower but how about having the choice to avoid as enemy for smurf? Thoughts?

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Nah, because then people would use it just to avoid tough opponents, which is silly.

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Not gonna happen …

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You will avoid all good players

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Sure I will just avoid good players but it would be limited just like avoiding teammates. Plus, in elo rank right now is filling with booster/smurf stack, it’s really hard to ‘get good’ like this.

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It’s only temporary and is happening just because of Humble Bundle. Soon all those guys should be back in Diamond and above.

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While they are climbing back up you are just going to get a losing streak and lose all hard earn sr?

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In theory, there’s an equal chance of them being on your team as them being your opponent. So at least in theory your winning percentages shouldn’t be affected in the long run unless they are running a six stack.

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Smurfs simply aren’t an issue. Improving is improving. You can’t expect to reach the true rank of the smurfs you fight if you can’t learn to fight on their level. And having an alternate account in a lower rank is not a crime. The game will adjust your rank as you play unless you intentionally throw which will just get you reported.

Smurfs never have been, and never will be a problem. Unless your goal isn’t to improve, in which case, why are you playing competitive? and if you’re seriously complaining about smurfs in quick play/arcade… … … … seriously?

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I just report some guys. “Either aimhack or smurf”
I get some replies they are banned too

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No I don’t expect to fight on their level

Well that’s where you’re wrong kiddo

Can’t improve if you can’t play the bloody game

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Except you can and 1 person out of 12 being better than you is a ridiculous reason to assume you can’t lol

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You mean all of 3 good players? You can’t avoid them all you know.

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Sounds like something a smurf would say. There are many high skilled streamers out there with accounts in low SR brackets that steamroll for the lulz to get bits from their viewers.

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Ive started doing my placements in the last week for this exact reason. At the start of every season (on console especially) all these ‘maindoomlol’ ‘narutoshimada’ ‘anabananacabanaramaliscious’ accounts start popping up, either end up carrying me or damsel in distressing me.

When I’m on PC i just keep an eye out for ‘(smurf4)free weekend’ and humble monthly type stuff. To see when its safe.

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They had this previously, the problem was that on higher elo’s some players had really long queues because they were good.

The devs used a top widowmaker as an example, that dude couldn’t find matches, they realized it was because everyone was avoiding him because he was a good widow player, we all know how unfun it is to play against god widows.

If you want to find the post, it was on that big post explaining how the matchmaking works.

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Deadly. At top 500 if everyone avoided two other people it would literally be impossible to get a team wouldn’t it? Two avoided team mates and opponents. do that with all 500 and that would work as well as a dead torb on attack. (could work but prob not going to.)

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Avoid player as enemy was in very early versions of overwatch but it made queue times really silly.

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No, you still get teams, but they would be ridiculously unbalanced. Technically, “avoid as teammate” already ruins balance because sometimes a high rank Symmetra gets avoided by all the other top ranked players so you see a lot of extremely tilted games where you have lole three top 500 players on one team; and only like two GM and a few masters on the other.

So that’s where you have unbalanced SR ranges where the difference is more than 250 SR and it’s a total stomp for the Symmetra player because they can’t be matched anywhere else until they lose so much their MMR lowers substantially.

This is currently a tactic used to “farm” wins. You avoid people in your SR range who main heroes that your mains are strong against.

That’s why you see good one tricks lile Fuey 500 go on giant lose steaks; the other players are rigging the system.

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Dam. That sucks. They really need to fix that for masters and above.