Question About Smurphing
If its a reportable and bannable offense, then why are players allowed to smurph in ranked, and why are diamonds and up players allowed to drop their rank down to rookie to gold? (Its technically smu...
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@Balladalidila The way it was told to me by respawn devs was a player who purposely tanks their stats to be placed in low-end lobbies. When pro players or very good player make alt accounts they are good enough to where they fly through lower end lobbies and eventually make it way past that point. With the new system now as an example I'm bumped down to bronze this season. I had 1 game where I won and had 5 kills and 4 assists for 501 rp. This quickly gets them moved to the proper area they belong.
Repeating account creations also could be considered it but I have explained a few times that you may use and create alt accounts there is no rules against that. I am sure smurfing is a hard thing to work with.
Repeating account creations also could be considered it but I have explained a few times that you may use and create alt accounts there is no rules against that. I am sure smurfing is a hard thing to work with.
Hrmm oki. So that Respawn dev indirectly confirmed that there are low-end lobbies based on recent games KD or something like that? Or did he actually suggest that some players actually lose ranked several matches in a row to stay in low rank lobbies? Seems so much work. You would literally have to lose 20 silver matches in a row to make up for one win
- @Balladalidila How exactly it works is not known to me. I should have worded it as they did which was to deliberately keep yourself at low rank to stomp on new players.
Seems like the new ranked system put all new players in one big lobby anyways, or rather two possible lobbies: Rookie to Silver1 and Bronze4 to Gold1. So basically; Rookies never play with golds but other than that, its everyone together. So smurfing in low lobbies is almost meaningless now. I think the average skill level of those lobbies rather is connected to WHEN during the split you play. When all hardstucks Plats and hardstuck Diamonds are tired of getting smashed in Pred lobbies, they start to smurf and the average skill level of those lobbies increases significantly.
This assumes that there are not two types of the same rank lobby, like two types of silver lobbies etc etc. Doublelift (ex-pro and now LoL streamer) confirmed that LoL uses three types of ranked queues:Normal ranked queues, which prioritize players wh doesnt have any weird MMR vs rank deviations.
Smurf ranked queues, which have way to high MMR for their current rank, i.e clearly smurfs.
And lastly what he called "recovery ranked queues" which is for accounts who once had a much higher MMR than his current rank reflects but how signs that he has gotten worse, like old players coming back to the game. So if a LoL Challenger from S4 and quit playing the game and then come back now and your account has been reset to Silver, he would probably not play that many games with "true" silver players, but rather in silver recovery queue.
So perhaps there are something like that with Apex too.
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