I know banning won’t happen, but I have some hope that an account will be marked as a Smurf, then matched with other smurfs. It’s a vain hope, but a hope nonetheless
Never did before but now I started to report them aswell, blizz won’t wake up? Then get this.
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I have been reporting every smurf for months now.
I know that the devs don’t give a damn, but it’s the thought that counts.
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Why is this better? Because they “skip” two tiers? People in gold or plat are as helpless as bronzees against smurf stacks.
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You should ignore the troll comments that say “you’re reporting someone for being better than you?” By definition a smurf is better than you because a smurf is someone purposely playing in a skill group they don’t belong in that is far below their own skill level.
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I wanna say what I’ve said a thousand times here: Stop reporting them because eventually when you report enough accounts that get their actions revoked you’ll end up getting suspended yourself over mass false reporting
But at this point the game is such a bronze border fiesta that I kinda secretly wish that players would do it even more aggressively so the game would become unplayable if you performed well with these accounts because you’d get banned by the time you reach lvl 20. Then again everyone would just throw harder, get even worse MMRs and then do even more damage to the competitive scene than before
But I dunno. It’s kinda hard to fix an issue that is mostly caused simply because nobody plays the game anymore really unless they’re a hardcore dedicated veteran player, and it’s exactly those players who keep creating these accounts, meaning that while their amounts haven’t necessarily changed in a considerable way, their proportion is relatively a lot higher than it ever has been
You’re right, they don’t belong in that SR, but they have to work their way up through the ranks to get to where they need to be.
When I started my alt account, I only played 5 games before I was facing off against gold/silver border players with hundreds of hours (I only play QP). It takes time for the match maker to find where you belong.
Seeing a particularly skilled player of a lower rank in your games is not proof that they’re smurfing. Might they reach their intended rank and then create a new alt? Maybe… but you’re never going to know that unless you’re following that player around like a stalker. You’re wasting your time and energy on a boogeyman lol.
Unless you see them actively throwing the game, they’re not smurfing. It’s as simple as that. Any complaints beyond that are just excessive.
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There wasn’t one single ban because of mass reporting.
This is such a weird complaint to me with how luck based mystery heroes tends to be anyways.
Knowledge vs players with less knowledge is still an edge and also its also weird when smurfs say they do it to learn a certain hero but then they just goof around in arcade.
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A level 25 doomfist or Genji that’s just wiping the team every fight is my first thought
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Probably just a diamond player on an alt account right after placements. Nothing to worry about.
It is if your are in Bronze
It’s not overkill. Keep it up. It’s takes more than one of us reporting them for something to happen! 
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If you read who I replied to…
He was saying “They’re a plague in Bronze.” - he is 100% talking about the kind who throw down to wreck the newbies, and yes, they are 100% reportable.
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Probably a 12 year olds dream to be honest haha.
Then I doubt they are more than gold on their mains. Which means, they will make dumb mistakes that can easily be punished.
I just want to play some close matches, win or lose.
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Oh man… I feel bad now. I think I played against you yesterday on numbani. I was the sigma… and you left… Bruh I just want fresh stats because all my main accounts stats are not updated, I don’t even want to stomp or whatever.
Idk if you want to now after that, but maybe we can play sometime?
If people want “this insane big smurf issue” to get traktion, stop crying about those absolutely unbeatable smurf, and record those awful throwers unable to hit anything…
If those aren’t the same ammount of cries about throwers then smurfs are non existing…
I always hear people complain about absolutely perfectly executed plays but never do they whine that theyr mates are throwing…
Throwing is a big offense
Winning basically never
Its also easier to understand people whining about the enemy team throwing compared to: this cree killed me 7 times now
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