Re: Smurfs in Ranked

Well Respawn has said that if players want to smurf for "the grind" .... than that is ok, no matter how many of their opponents are destroyed along their path to make "the grind."

Do I agree with it? - No!

I don't see why it is ok to stomp lower level players even if it is just for "the grind." 

They can start playing ranked at level 10 I believe, why not make it level 20 or 25, then you can play ranked. There's been a ton of 3 stack smurfs in ranked lately. I unfortunately don't have the time to play the game much more than 10 hrs a week, but when I do get the chance to jump on, I'm getting ape'd by three level 19s with 4k 20kill badges.

A significantly higher minimum level to get into ranked queues really is the quickest, simplest solution that should see some immediate results. By creating a minimum amount of unranked games required to get an account into ranked queues, smurfing becomes more of a hassle. It's in just about every game ever, and I'm having a hard time trying to come up with a reason why Apex Legends doesn't have this, outside of intentionally letting players smurf easier.

Alot of ppl just made 3 accounts and switch them every split till the ranked rewards are waywayway less entertaining than farming noobs. 

how i know ? 

@Midnight9746People already have level 100 + rank smurfs.. the game is 3 years old!
This could have been a good solution in the first year or 2 of Apex but not now it is too late.

This would negatively affect the new players experience and nobody else... brand new smurfs are used only to try and get a damage badge and 20 kill badge, people don't create brand new smurfs to rank they already have a few.
What we need now is a rank rework that puts you directly against similarly skilled opponents according to your points per game ratio.

There is no other way around it.

A continution on what I've said above... cheaters and smurphs going unchecked, with high ranking players being allowed to drop into lower ranked lobbies:

Enemy Team:

Bloodhound - Masters in a Silver lobby
Pathfinder - A blantant smurph / cheater
Octane - I honestly do not know about them, they had no stats or badges displayed on their banner card. I'm going to assume its another smurph.

@Midnight9746 

Smurfing is ofc not a good thing but the design choices that Respawn keep making sadly incentives it. Every split, I play my main to Diamond4 with premades but when they arent online or if I  just am not in the mood to tryhard, I solo Q in ranked from whatever rank I reset to approx Platinum on alt accounts. The reason why I just dont play casual mode is because Respawn made that mode a joke because of the insta-leave attitude and stacked 3-man premade squads.

If casual was solo Q only, i.e teams of three solo Qs of totally random skill level, I would have played that instead of solo Qing ranked on smurfs. Then, I would know that every team I faced would have an equally random chance of:

a) being as good or bad as my team

b) having as good or bad team synergy/communication as my team

c) not being a full squad, i.e had players eliminated.

The problem here is ofc mixing teams of stacked premades with randoms. Remove this and casual would become more fair and at least I wouldnt not be incentives to smurf. 

Its not worth playing ranked at all this season. Bronze teammates with diamond to pred enemy teams in "gold" lobbies. One of my matches, I was gold, (last season's gold), teammates were a gold, (last season's rookie IV), and a bronze, (last season's rookie IV), champion team were all plat players, two of which were last season's diamonds, and the 3rd was last season's masters.