I got online today and the very first comp match I played was against a smurf Pharah main who literally dominated the entire match. My team and i literally could do nothing to kill her more than once per round and when someone asked “what’s your SR on your main at Pharah?” They responded “4101”…
I was absolutely speechless.
As soon as that surprised Patrick expression on my face wore off, I chewed the guy out hard by saying things along the lines of how he is ruining the experience of every person he goes up against and how he is part of the reason this community and this game is so broken.
Yes, I wrote in all caps.
Also, he said, and I quote, “sorry man I’m playing here so I can play comp with my girlfriend”
To which i continued scholding him by saying “so instead of sticking with your main account and just playing quickplay or whatever like a level headed human being that doesn’t exploit the matchmaker, you decide to make things rough for everyone else just so you can play comp with your girlfriend?”
He then had the audacity to say “hey man how about instead of blaming others for you not climbing how about you look at yourself for once”
I was beyond baffled and pissed.
Basically, he is saying “don’t blame the fact that I’m abusing the matchmaker just for my own convinience to play one game mode with my girlfriend at the expense of everyone else’s precious time they take out of their day to try and have fun.”
I pretty much remotely have no respect for people who think this is okay. I also think all of you people who abuse the matchmaker are a bunch of cowards who deserve to have your computers straight up burn in a fire because you people have no consideration for others who want to just play fair matches without dealing with getting bodied relentlessly after they just got off a hard day of work and/or want to try and immerse themselves in a fun experience instead of dealing with the issues we all have going on in our lives.
He is not wrong though. The people complaining about smurfs need to just focus on improving themselves. I am on console. I have to deal with aim assist mouse and keyboard along with with people making smurfs for free and the frequency goes up whenever I am back in diamond.
Do they usually win games? Sure. But do they dominate ME? No. Simple as that and you will have more fun if you focus on numero uno.
I definitely wouldn’t get too angry over one game, but what you said is a problem. However, unless that player is throwing then he will eventually go back up in the 4000s. Otherwise this would be a blatant example of boosting/ throwing.
If you had a young child who played little league baseball and during one of his/her games, you found out that they are going up against another little league team that had a member of the Yankees playing with them, would you say this exact same thing that I placed in the quote box above or would you call out the Yankees player?
I’m willing to bet you would call out the Yankees player and not put the blame on your child and his/her team as if it was their own fault they lost.
Not really. I would be like, “hey, you should be excited that a Yankees player bothered to play with your little league team, sport. If you want to be as good as he is, one day, you need to keep practicing.”
Not that I would say the same about a smurf as who cares about someone’s rank. That is not even close to on par with playing against a professional. If I played against Dafran, I would be happy despite getting slaughtered.
I am just saying that you can learn from “better” players and the skill gap in this game is not as wide as people believe it is on ladder.
I feel like there is no easy solution here with how the matchmaker works. Assuming she is significantly worse than him, eventually they will settle into a SR range where they belong as a duo, which id assume is lower than gm, but above what his girlfriend would be at solo. Until they get to that point, of course it sucks to go against them.
But many people consider comp the only real game mode to play. I know my experience playing with my plat and diamond friends in qp is a disaster, to the point where we havent played qp together for close to a year. Instead of it taking the average of our 3 mmrs, and having games of high diamonds and some masters, it seems to just bring them into my mmr, with mainly gm players. Its a terrible experience for my friends, and it sucks for me too cuz I am almost always on the weaker team.
So yea it sucks they are not at the SR they belong at as a duo yet, but I dont really know what can be done for players of vastly different skill levels who want to play together, unlike some other games where mmr doesnt exist in casual modes, here it does, and seems quite strict.
Bro. Seriously. Stop lying to yourself. I am willing to bet even MORE money that you don’t buy any of what you just said. A Yankees player has absolutely no place in a serious match against people who are of far less skill than him/her much like a GM/T500 has no place in a match against bronze - diamond players.
If you were playing against Dafran on your main account (let’s assume it’s a platinum account) and he bodied you, you would absolutely take no pleasure in that scenario. If you reached GM for the very first time and you got bodied by him, then I could see how that would be beneficial but as a platinum player, seriously. Be real here dude.
You can get 10x better by watching them play on their streams and examining your own play via coaches and what not. You don’t need a matchmaking abuser (smurf) to teach you those things let alone one that ruins the experience for you and your team.
We have the term “group within 500/1000 Skill Rating” for a reason ya know.
I do not believe it would be a serious match, mate. Like… Wut? It would be more of an exhibition.
Nah. I would be into it. Sometimes I like to be destroyed because it motivates me to improve. The only reason I am learning McCree instead of just using better heroes is because someone messed me up while playing him. It does not happen often, but when it does, it inspires me.
I am not going to waste time watching a streamer. I would rather have them hand devilvered to me in-game and the satisfaction of going positive against them.
The issue isnt climbing the issue is that 25 mins got wasted thanks to a smurf who is selfish and only cares about himself abused the match maker and letw be honest smurfs are alot i can testify to that
If a 4k player is duoing with his girlfriend and her skill level is actual silver/gold just for example, then he probably won’t get much farther than diamond/low master.