I get super annoyed with smurfs. Really sucks in metal ranks. I’m not talking someone has a good game, I’m talking they have more than double the number 2 elims, winning 1v3 regularly, and just never missing…people miss in metal.
Will continue to report, and will continue to get the confirmation message upon login. Stop smurfing, it’s dumb.
I’ve had numerous games with over 100 combined k/a games with little to no deaths this season and I’m strugglebussing trying to stay out of gold, despite being an outstanding factor in almost every match.
The problem is the placement/ranking system not placing people where they need to be because there is no performance measurement in their elaborate SR calculations. It’s all based on the win/loss condition. “You were favored this game because people on the other team have lost more than you recently because people before them won more than lost because people before them lost more than won” when it’s ultimately just random because the overwhelming majority of matches are simply outside your control.
I’ve actually just taken to locking heroes I’m not even good with lately and there’s been no change in my win/loss spread. I win games on Tracer with 10% accuracy and 0 sticks. I win games on Genji with no killing blows or sword elims. Meanwhile I lose games on things I’m decent on playing better by magnitudes. It’s just wild.
I’m not talking you played well. I’m talking Hanzo has 38 elims, headshotting like crazy, can’t get out of spawn, and the next best is 12 elims.
If the Hanzo is eliminating people walking in straight lines out of the same spawn door every time … Of course others will have far less elims.
Can’t eliminate what’s already been eliminated.
Yeah, I’ve been in that situation more times than I can count. I get called a smurf. I’m not lol.
I report smurfs everyday… I honestly enjoy it. Stop smurfing and you won’t get banned simple as that. I will continue to report every smurf left and right (even those on my team). Go back to your place.
You do realize smurfing isnt a bannable offense right? On top of that everyone got dropped 1-3 ranks with the reset. They squished the ladder so most everyone is around gold. Masters is currently top 500 and that just trickles down. So really your just reporting legit players better then you on their way back up
1 report = +3 smurfs, keep it up! This will definitely fix your skill issue that allows smurfs to exist in the first palce.
Stop hardstucking and you won’t get smurfed on, trust me 
The game is FREE to play
U really think reporting a Smurf will do something?!
Blizzard made the game free so people would make Smurf accounts so their numbers would go back up.
Blizzard won’t do anything about smurfs, they gave everyone green light to make a couple
It’s futile. There are 1000s of comp ready accounts for sale. If one gets banned they’ll just buy a new one or log into another account they already have. I recently heard a popular streamer say they have like 8000 hours across 15 accounts. Just try to find enjoyment in the game other ways. Comp has been a joke for years.
What report choices do you choose when reporting Smurfing? Just curious.
I remember a game I once played, a friend (top 500) and me on Tracer, (plat 5), everyone on the enemy team said I was the smurf, was ‘cracked’ and carried, people have literally no idea what they are talking about
Cheating>boosting/deranking
Report all you want. Nothing is going to change unless blizzard takes a firm stance on the issue. People have been complaining about this for the last 6 years. If they haven’t addressed it by now, they aren’t going to.
It’s to the point again where there’s at LEAST one in almost every game. Those “new” accounts taking on your entire team solo.
Imagine a dev ever wanting their game to good fair, or good, or fun. Imagine wanting your game to NOT have cheaters literally running it.
Not these “devs”… they’ve got skins to sell and blogs to write about how awesome sauce they are are “listening to feedback”.
the system is deranking everyone a bit, and also people’s SR’s are inaccurate because of the reset.
Consequently it’s a $%# show until they get everyone’s SR\MMR correct which probably takes 50-100 games.
Rank resets are kinda dumb to begin with bc this is what you get.
Then you should be just as annoyed with alts. There is a lot of math that suggests bringing an alt into the ladder is just as disruptive (if not more so, depending on where it is placed) then intentionally losing (taken as one of the criteria of reportable smurfing).
I’d rather fight 10 different smurfs in a thick rank than grind through 10 cloned accounts (alts) that gatekeep a thin rank. Parking (banking) SR where it doesn’t belong is what every single alt does.
Anyone playing on account that is lower than their main is a smurf. Miss me with that off character BS because you and I know as soon as they need to carry they will swap. It’s nearly every match. Blizzard isn’t going to do anything about it. There are threads about this same thing since 2018. Not a peep for 6 years. Why would they start now? Play another game if you care about your sanity.
I consider it as upto and equal so:
sr(alt) <= sr(main)but someone like pyah could have 17 mains all within 1sr of eachother at the 3000sr border. his peak is 3001 so they/them clones it for days during a boost session with the 5bros so thankfully it’s f2p.
get the discord tell and spin up a match → ez gatekeep entry into diamond for stacks and ladder climbing accounts.
once multiple accounts per hardware u alrdy have players:account ratio tracking issues which immediately throws off the skillcurves.
Agreed. There are times in a match where the my team or the other will have really strong players, they are not necessarily ‘smurfs’ , they simply are not being advanced up the ranks based on their skills. If this 50% W/L is forced, then these players will evidentially have team match ups designed for them to lose regardless of their skill.
Because of the lack of actual match/player data being available, we will never really ever see why these skilled players keep showing up in low to mid metal matches…
Someone once mentioned that if they allowed these skilled or potential smurfs to rank faster, that would encourage the whole “smurf” industry of rank leveling players for profit.
however, I believe Blizzard is able to see all the stats involved with ‘smurfs’ grouping up and leveling other players, the question is “Do they want to?” … “do they really care?”
I guess he chooses abusive chat. a classic for false reporting.