For example just got smashed 2 games in a row by someone boosting a low silver account
The player profile
Started season 8 -low silver
Season 9 - never placed
Season 10 - never played
Season 11-14 - never above 2100
(This time no more than 1 hour on widow with terrible stats)
Season 15? - current rank 2408 with 2 hours on widow
Win % - 90%
Accuracy - 85%
End game cards for both games where he got over 80% scoped accuracy
Now either this person is cheating or boosting so we confront the person and he admits its not his account and hes boosting it and doesn’t care if it ruins games for other we need to “get good”
How can this sudden change in skill not set off flags? Especially when they played no where close to that skill lvl in 5 seasons??
80% scoped accurcy is very fishy, what about the scoped crit accurcy? I know GM widow smurfing in low gold usually can get a 50-60% accurcy with 30-35% crits. 80%+ accurcy in mutiple games is very likely a aimbot.
It is a business I heard if you reach 4300 you are contacted by a company. You either work by what you do or you get paid daily.
I think if they clever: they pay them if there is not job. To ruin low games. Before you did not see so many thrower and booster, also boosted player and you can’t say which one of those 3 it is worse to have against or with you. They will ruin the game if they go as either way.
Since those company appeared we got ranking harder. I am sure they pay them to create caos by throwing or wiping everyone. And their main job boosting a bronze to gold and if he is a dreamer even plat or diamond. I stopped Diamond I have not skill to deal with Booster and smurf, but I believe the worst problem In Diamond was boosted players.
Boosting happens but sometimes people have different accounts for different purposes.
I’m mid to high masters at a few hero’s and plat on others. I have a plat account I play those hero’s occasionally to improve and have been known to play my mains and just own people if they give me a reason to. I’m trying to learn new hero’s and someone verbally abuses me on the enemy team. Guess what, you’re about to lose this game tough guy.
Just the other day on Route 66 I’m playing rein and getting bullied and not supported by my team. 2 elims 6 deaths. Enemy player tells me I should uninstall. I swap to tracer and leave my team without a main tank and proceed to get 82 elims and 27k damage.
Did you see the problem smurf can cause ?
Did anyone else notice how your Ego is when fighting 1000SR below your elo?
Imagine that guy who was extremely toxic was Samito or Dafran smurfing too? Would you like it ?
You basically got a fair match. Bad teammates as you super good to be plat…
But how would be your Ego if you can’t kill that someone who was toxic ?
Maybe your Rein is silver and you soft throwing , if that guy would not be toxic against you: you simply don’t mind as you can pass Plat as tracer ?
You deceive MMR by throwing with silver chars on plat and when wants to win play M chars and none except you get fair matches. That bad teammates could be in a more even game, but the mmr doesn’t know if you going throwing or going smurf…
It’s one game and maybe they’ll learn their lesson about being toxic. If I played M characters more than once in a blue moon, that account wouldn’t stay in plat.
And, as a masters player, I play against OWL players all the time in morning queues. They’re way, way above my level but due to a small player base it’s what I have to deal with so I have no sympathy for a toxic player getting stomped by me when I have to play against that due to demographics.
That problem i also can create with only one account. I can make my team loose just by selecting a hero i am not good at.
Or for example: i am good with ana , but i like to be a dps main. I also want to be in at least diamond. So i rank up with ana and when i hit diamond i select dps.(self boosting)
Since we dont have hero based SR it is more fair to have an account for each hero (at least if you dont swap).
And playing only 1 account will mess up your mmr. So blizzard doesn’t even want you to play 1 account.
Also players who can penalize bad team play is what this game in lower brackets and QP needs.
Since blizzard doesn’t teach low/new players the game, this is a very good way to teach. Since if that team would play better together and have a good counter setup, that tracer would have a very hard job, especially since his team wasn’t supporting him. Even if his skill was a lot higher as the rest, he would not have been able to carry like that.