realistically even in those “unranked to GM” videos the players usually reach their own rank within half a day, which honestly isn’t that bad. i imagine a more stringent determinant for MMR would just end up placing lower ranked players who manage to have a few good games into much higher ranks where their win/loss ratio would suffer
at the end of the day i think they solve it to the best of their ability, and trying to make things like this bannable can lead to new players who just happen to be good getting banned for no reason
Smurfs are not always on the enemy team. You get your fair share of smurfs to help you win games, tbh you should try to see it as a learning experience, look at where they position themselves, if they are in comms try replicating their callouts in later games, etc.
Smurfs will always be in the game, you can’t get rid of them, so get used to it, and take advantage of it.
you realize how little a percentage of smurfs are gm players… most are bad players who make a new account to get placed higher or just diamond players who think they can s*** on plat and below players but actually just end up tilted most of the time. actual smurfs arent a thing until you hit mid diamond which i doubt most of the whiners here have ever hit.
Edit: if your complaining about an account thats below diamond is a smurf your just dead wrong and probably bad.
I know this may sound strange, but some people are playing games to have fun. They have like an hour daily to play Overwatch after a job and they dont look for a challenge or to climb a ladder in comp but just to relax, have fun in qp. And smurfs is why this isnt possible. And this isnt fair because we all paid equal amount of money and we all have equal right to enjoy a game we bought, but again, we cant. Thats the problem. Now we just have to came up with a solution
I dont know from where did you get this statistic about % of smurfs in ow. There is still a lot of fair players in Overwatch and smurfs leaving this game would be one of the best thing that ever happened to it so I’m really hoping for it.