In nearly 30% of my games i have atleast one smurf, lately most of the time they group up as two or are with a really low ranked mercy pocket.
It’s outragous that Blizzard said that this is not bannable. It needs to be bannable. A level 30 Hanzo that is always on fire and gets play of the game isn’t in the rank he should be and the adjustment are too slow.
Changes i want to see:
- Make Smurfing a reportable sabotage with the clear mentioning in game that it is
- Make the placement matches go up to 3500.
- Reduce decay to be max only one full rank, means 500 SR.
- Introduce Hero based SR.
What would you change?
My ideas are based about public knowledge, cause most belive it’s isn’t bannable to smurf and so they smurf to have fun.
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This would just lead to a lot of people that have good aim, but don’t play the game a lot being falsely banned for having a good game. And yes even if it was only if they admitted it in chat, but the report system doesn’t work like that, if enough people sent in these reports on 1 player, they would be auto banned.
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i also would remove the ability of a silver playing with a plat , a stack of two can’t go in with 1 rank differnce. Cause the Plat always carries the gold game, its ridicouls taht every single game this ahppens the plat is always hard carrying the whole team. THAT should be forbidden, the difference between mit gold and mid plat is too different that a silver player isn’t going to throw it hard enough to make the plat equal.
Smurf can help you with a lot of thing like game sense it’s annoying sometimes but if you learn from them you will get better
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They will never remove this because every smurf is a dude thats just paid blizzard twice for the same game which im sure they are very much in favour of
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Players completely outclassed and dominated aren’t “learning” anything. It’s like making a 7th grader play 1 on 1 with LeBron James or something and if he was intent on humiliating the kid.
Smurfs smurf mostly for yuks, to goof off or yes, to be cruel and get their rocks off doing it. Intentionally downranking or exploiting multiple accounts to crush noobs drives more people away than makes them determined to improve. There are lots of other games to play if this one is going to be miserable.
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basically we all need to accept this game is not suited to competitive play and try to pressure blizzard into coming clean and making it casual to appease the audience
Omg. Im so tired of the smurfs make you play better arguement. I think im just gonna get my account boosted. Should be no problems there, right? Sure ill be playing at a rank im not suppose to. Sure ill be hindering the gameplay and experience of others but so what. Its ok for smurfs to do it, why not the other way around? Maybe those people should just learn to carry better.
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haha, i love this reply, it makes so much sense but, nonono being boosted is a bannable offense ( atleast buying boost service ). yes smurfing is a problem, every game i played since this week was almost or a full lobby of low lvl ( 25-150 ) in mid diamond, dropped almost out of it.
I know its bannable and i would never do it just wanted to make a point. A d ive stoped playing as well until its solved but like several people have said they arent gonna solve it so we will be waiting a while
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jup, this game is unplayable. friend ( GM player ) tried to help me get to my main sr ( was 3.4k 2 weeks ago and dropped to 3012 now ), he just gave up because its a smurf infested place, with throwers in almost every match…apex legends, here we go
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Ive been stuck on blackout for a minute lol
I don’t get it when people say getting stomped doesn’t help. I got out of being hardstuck silver in CS by getting a new account and somehow getting placed in LE games. (I know, I’m just as confused as you). I was getting my butt kicked all the way back down to silver, but I was getting a lot better. Once I went back on my main account I got out of silver very quickly. That’s just my experience at least 
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People can learn from getting “beat” yes, but really not very much by getting pummeled in a manner where they don’t even know what’s happening. You don’t teach someone how to swim by dropping them off in the middle of the Pacific.
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Just get Gargamel, he’s good at hunting smurfs
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What would fix it kinda for higher ranks: change decay as described above.
i’ve had a lot of practice
Did you just created a account to post here? 
I’ve duo queued some qp with a GM, so played vs. Quite a few diamonds. Even played some 3.2k comp in off season.
I learned a lot as I was the worst player there surrounded by 11 better players.
But if I’m in a gold game and I know how to handle the smurf enemy dps, doesn’t help me if my team not on comms to back me up, or even having enough common sense to stay “behind” the Rein shield if I switch to him.
Smurfs are just bullies that can’t hack it at their own Sr.
A diamond friend of mine has a bronze smurf he uses to “destress by smashing bronze (female dogs)”