This is a weird suggestion BUT WE NEED THIS IN COMP. Friends just group up with their low level friends to “have fun in comp” and thats fine, but most of the low levels players dont have good gamesense and just for those friends to have fun, the rest of the team is left to carry the low levels. Yes they can be good sometimes but most dont communicate or understand basic callouts, some low levels just go ahead and play heroes they have 0 play time in comp.
This is extremely frustrating and you should add a feature where once you reach gold or plat, it should give you an option to disable being teamed up with players below prestige.
He said below. So murfs are not a big problem then anymore. I would support that… lost 3 games last day because of level 30 account that dont even know the location of healthpacks as tracer…
nope. most low level players are now smurfs. i would believe that very few new players are actually new anymore.
besides, just becuase someone is a lower level doesnt mean they have no game sense or are bad players. i know people who made plat at level 25 … i also know people that have platinum borders that are in low gold …
I think a lot of the new players are actually new. If you look at a game like League of Legends with a very undeniable player base, you’ll find newbies all the time on there.
this is a dumb idea, this is a genji smurf but I’m a masters tier player you gonna say I should be blocked by almost everyone in masters? level doesn’t affect skill. you are either good at the game or you aren’t. your teammates are not holding you back. Let me refer you to the 40-40-20 rule
40% of games you will win no matter what as long as you aren’t intentionally throwing
40% of games you will lose no matter what
20% of games are on your shoulders.
20%.
that means you only need to perform at the top of your game 20% of the time, that is not a lot. if you aren’t climbing, its because you aren’t as good as you think.
@OP this is more due to matchmaker being crap than lowbies being an issue.
What should happen:
Inexperienced players should be matched with other inexperienced players
Solo Q and Group Q should be separate (like how it is in HotS).
Per my second point, the matchmaker does a poor job of figuring out fair matchups since SR is individualized. If you’re, say, SR 2800 and you bring in your 2300 buddy, the matchmaker has to figure out how to make a fair match with that. There’s the chance that group could be matched against an enemy averaging 2900 because it’s “close enough” even though the 2300 guy would get rekt. AND because groups of all sizes (including solo Q) get mixed and matched with 0 logic, the other 4 players get screwed over.
its not? jeff has literally come out and said it isn’t a problem because in a few games the game will adjust who you play with to get you in the right elo.
I played 3 levels on this account and was instantly put in with high diamond and masters players. the game is doing its job fine.
Nope, it makes blizzard money if you buy alt accounts. They just take pride that the matchmaker will make you climb so fast that you end up in high ranks pretty fast. OPs suggestion would make that impossible and keep smurfs in low ranks until they hit lvl 100.
I get placed with hundreds all the time, most of them the same skill level as me and you can still earn xp for losing so don’t get shy my friend, fight through it!