I know what you are implying, but people are allowed to like a team
It rises and falls based on how I play, and I don’t play different on those alt accounts. I did have an account that I played on so I could play with my buddies wife, who was silver/bronze. I simply just picked DPS I wasn’t good at playing at, and ended up gold.
If what you were saying was true, there wouldn’t be a smurf problem.
Their “team” is the dafont crew and copycats. Don’t play dumb. They use it because the SHD were the worst team in the entire league. They are making a statement about the ELO range that they smurf in.
Furthermore, I am almost certain that you and all of the other players in these threads are the perpetrators. You have far too much interest in the matters of gold ranked players. And as soon as anyone raises questions, you all appear in threads with the same mantra of “you are where you belong” - you have no clue where people belong, it’s a hidden internal number. SR is tied to your team’s performance. Not always your personal performance. How many games do you lose with good stats? Probably quite a few.
I’m not playing dumb. Someone may legitamately enjoy the team. They may be rooting for the underdogs, or just enjoy the dragons. People are allowed to enjoy things ya know.
Yeah but you’re trolling. It’s all that you do. So no, I think you’re full of it based on previous interactions.
“I know what you are implying” - And how would you know that if you weren’t complicit or at least aware that it is happening?
No! SHD means your a smurf! This is the absolute truth! (btw I play in pugs and SHD is the dps role icon so if Ive played dps last time Ill have SHD as my icon, making me smurf)
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It doesn’t MEAN anything. It’s just frequently used by organized griefers on a regular basis, so thus a symbol of their agenda. Kinda like the Germans did with the swastika, they corrupted it.
Understanding your assumption, and knowing that some people may genuinely like a team are two completely different teams.
Post a vod and have it reviewed. I’m betting a GM player will call a TON of things out. I’ve had a lot of vods reviewed, closed to 8 hours of vods reviewed. In my very best game, where I felt like I had complete control, I STILL had mistakes called out.
Every season, people get better, making climbing that much harder. Every season, you have to improve faster and better than those around. Every season there are less people playing, meaning, it’s that much harder to climb. People are not hard stuck in an SR, they simply are not improving fast enough.
When I play gold, the game just feels easy. You get those steam roll games. I usually giggle the entire time. But it rarely feels competitive.
I think you’re just caught and backpedaling little one.
Even pros make mistakes. So its not a huge surprise you have made mistakes even you think you did really good.
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Show me how I am back peddling? And please do not call me names. I have not done that to you.
When you lose games you should have won, your MMR goes up and your SR goes down. This means the following games will have harder opponents, and your teammates will be weaker.
This exists in every ladder. it’s the whole purpose of smurfing. To grief other players so they cannot climb. And then the griefers gaslight them by saying that if they improve, they will climb.
This is the MO, and they organize on Discord servers to queue in together, or at the same time. And then they grief targets.
You will find that I wasn’t replying to you.
Yep, there is a lot to learn and lots of situations to improve on. Some items I kind of new, other items I had no idea about. I really like having them reviewed, it’s been a big help.
Bronze is boring, also I don’t really know anyone who smurfs-climbs-deranks they just make other smurfs.
But then my friend was telling me literally an hour ago how she plays with a guy who is Masters but he hates it so stays in gold.
So maybe some people do it, seems boring and like a lot of effort lol.
Wait that cycle is prbly more common on pc where you have to pay for accounts lol
The other issue is that DPS players have been alienated by the goats meta, and they want to pop off. So they join LFG and throw down to where they can play what they want without public shaming for not sticking to the meta.
It’s a perfect storm of crap. The smurfing issue is ladder wide. All of these plat and diamond players in my game are getting abused by master and GM smurfs in diamond, so they turn bitter and abuse the players below them out of spite.
My bad, sorry about that then.
For me to lower my SR 200 (which is what I needed to play with my bronze friend), I quit one game before it started to avoid affecting people wanting to win, then I only played heroes I wanted to learn so I wasn’t soft/hard throwing the game, but instead, testing my skill on those heroes (where i belong probably in silver on). I lost the 200 SR and then played on my main. I got her up to a certain point but her skill in the upper SR was not good enough to handle those players, and I wasn’t skilled enough to carry her. After I stopped playing with her, her SR went back to where she was. He husband thought she was hard stuck in bronze due to her teammates. Sorry, but she belongs in Bronze.
Her husband is a gold player who often hits mid plat. I watch him play and he really is a plat player, but, he makes these HUGE game changing mistakes and takes a loss when he could of won. “We’re not killing them quick enough, I’m switching off MT and going DPS”. Then there is no MT, the enemy team hard pushes us, we lose. Or he plays Rein and just randomly charges into the entire time, line of sights the healer, and instant dies when we are like 2 seconds away from over time.
He just simply makes random mistakes that cost him wins. He gets to mid plat when he stops doing that, drops to gold the more he does it.
Yeah I’ve been seeing more brutal smurfs than usual in gold. They send me nice messages sometimes about my Tracer play even if they destroy me on Widow ;_ ;
I’m not back peddling, read what I have said. Someone having SHD doesn’t mean they are throwing/trolling smurfing.
Something you have stated to believe. And to make a remark on your edit
I’m sick of the forums being flooded with “I belong higher” “The matchmaker is rigged!”
People such as yourself, who make self assesments on your skill and assume that you belong higher. You are silver boarder 1 start, almost 2. You have played many, many more games than needed to smooth out any bumps that may suggest others are holding you back.
Every time someone like you posts for a vod review, they make the same mistakes stereotypical of people in their elo. It has been debunked numerous times, and I honestly don’t know why I waste my time on here anymore. It’s filled with people like you who would rather be handed elo rather than earn it.