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Hero+

3 years ago

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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OldTreeCreeper

Hero+

3 years ago

@Balladalidila from the horses mouth so to speak 😃

So hideouts is very specific about continuous new account smurfing, who farm low level lobbies, getting banned.

And as @E9ine_AC mentioned, hideouts second comment leaves the door firmly open for tanking smurfs, who farm low level lobbies, getting banned too.

Why the report function for smurfing is there, I don't know, as there's no way for a player to discern if a Smurf is just passing through or not.

The official smurfing in ranked is farcical. That was proven conclusively last season. I don't think a 6 tier demotion each split is the answer. Fortnite's answer is to put everyone back to square one in their ranked, I'm not a fan of that either.

I think is apex's case a demotion to any achieved level IV is appropriate each split, with the caveat the you have to improve by at least 2 tiers to get the next split rewards. This would keep everyone roughly where they should be.

Awhoo_Thunder

3 years ago

@OldTreeCreeper
So this "in all legends" seems like everyone can have 18 smurf accounts +1 every season with new hero ?

Seems fair. :D

E9ine_AC
Hero+
3 years ago
@Awhoo_Thunder That most likely will be punishable. That would fall in the line of Hideouts mentions of creating a lot of smurf accounts to farm lower skilled player lobbies.
- Awhoo_Thunder
  3 years ago
  @E9ine_AC
  How you wanna proof its meant to farm lower rank lobbies ? I mean you dont have to proof anything, but in that Twitter statement this was pretty clear to me, you can do Ranked smurf challenges with every hero... This is clearly allowing smurfs to smurf. :D There is also no problem to stream that as challenge on Twitch or is it ? I mean just to be sure to not get banned...
  There should be clear NO or clear YES to smurfing, this is seems more like a YES but please dont abuse it too much.
  - OldTreeCreeper
    Hero+
    3 years ago
    @Awhoo_Thunder the proof is in the farming. 😃