Smurfs are in every competitive games, there are many more smurfs in the other games like valorant, csgo or league of legends.
And people who play these games complain a lot less, they just accepted it, and why in overwatch you guys can’t and you complain so much about these smurfs that clearly are not a problem to rank up
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I do not care about them in ranked because either they move up fast, or it is just one and I can smack them up myself.
I dislike, in QP, where they 3-6 stack and my team seem to be literal new players. Not much I can do but linger near spawn and pick off the cocky ones.
Luckily there are very few smurf groups that get off on winning against bronze QP players. So it is rare, but definitely annoying.
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Just because they’re in other games doesn’t mean it’s not a problem. People have a right to complain if there are players going out of their way to ruin matches for everyone else. At the end of the day people play games for fun and putting up with smurfs is the opposite of that.
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Why would you guys complain about smurfs ruining at every single elo? I suppose you have never played in master/grandmaster and seen smurfs throwing games trolling.
ye but people complain a lot more in overwatch than in other games, i justdon’t know why.
Unfortunately for you i’m gm
The right question to ask would rather be why - at least according to you - people in other games simply accept that some idiots feel the need to spoil their fun and waste their time.
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Because when it is clearly shown how bad is a player that got smurfed, the anger he feels do not allow him to think sober. Instead of thinking “How bad I am and how to improve” he will ask the smurf “How bad you are so you cant play on your main” lol - F logic.
Because they ruin the matchmaking integrity by exploiting the system, in Ranked games and even QP to some extent I’m suppose to be playing against players my skill level Smurfs simply being in my game where they are far abover evryone else ruins that matches balance as it’s no longer 2 teams of similar skill facing off as it should be.
The counter arguments that people have for smurfs are usually one of 3 things
1 Well smurfs aren’t a problem because the MMR system will eventually put them back to their rightful rank.
the problem with that argument is that they’re still ruin several matches till they get their and once they do… they can just make another smurf account
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Well getting beaten by a smurf can be a valuable lesson that can be learned from
No it’s not as the only thing i learned was that there are people far batter at the game than me, I already know that, and as for observing how good players play, there are videos for that -
they aren’t doing it for malicious reasons they doing to learn a new character or whatever.
you don’t need another account for that you can practice in QP, not ranked they’re both 222 and you can’t say that u shouldn’t practice in QP because those people don’t try when you yourself aren’t by intentionally not playing the characters you’re good at actively handicapping yourself
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valorant has literally banned streamer’s accounts for smurfing
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Smurfs are exaggerated. I don’t believe they’re as common as people think.
I believe most accused of smurfing are just people that are good at the game, but they rarely play, so they end up in a rank where they shouldn’t be but they don’t play enough to be ranked higher.
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I mean, a match with a smurf in it is always gonna be worse than a match without one.
And when you had to wait 10+ minutes for such a match, you’re gonna be more sour about it than in valorant or whatver.
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I don’t think so, i play mostly qp on console with crossplay and I’m not kidding when i say that %100 of my matches had at least one smurf in them and the frequency they’ve been talked about online in all things Overwatch shows that I’m not the only one seeing them everywhere and it’s not hard to see why there’s so many, for console players making a smurf account is free
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Quick play has loose matchmaking so you can find matches fast. Shouldn’t be a surprise when there’s people dominating.
Even if smurfs are a popular topic, that doesn’t mean people are correct. Popularity does not equal accuracy. Especially when this reason exists:
Because I’m free to dislike smurfs in ranked.
Is it really smurfing if it’s in QP? The matchmaker is so non existent there that they could probably hop onto their GM main and still end up in the same game lol
well dominant players sure, except that these dominant players are almost always smurfs, how do i know they’re smurfs, well they have a throw away name that didn’t jave much thought put into, is auto-generated, or is a joke name, and despite being low level know things about the game that no knew player can or would know about, on top of the fact that they’re aren’t going to be any new players to OW at this point.
and while the popularity of something doesn’t mean it’s true, it does mean that there’s something there to look into and when you do you see that people are right when they say that smurfing is bad
well yeah cuz it’s a smurf account and QP also has some MMR system in place so you won’t get stomped or be stomped even in QP
I dislike them not because of in game activities, it’s the mentality.
So desperate for attention they will happily take negative and don’t realize if they just didn’t act like this, they might get 1 friend.
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That’s my point. The MMR in QP is really jank. Stomps like like bronzes vs diamonds happen a lot even without any smurf accounts involved in the match. Their presence doesn’t make a difference in the grand scheme of things.
If its comp then yeah it’s a problem though.
Because it is like Stephen Curry joining a game of pick-up basketball game. And the worst part is that you don’t know who Stephen is until he completely wreck your team.
That’s what it feels like to have a Smurf in any game, and people are really tired of them. I can understand why many people acts out that way, but as for myself, I am so used to it with Dota 2 that as of this point I don’t even care anymore.
I joined, see a smurf, try my best and either take the lost then leave or BEAT THEIR BUTTS IN AND LAUGH MUAHAHAHAHAHAA>
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