Smurfs

I'm glad you asked this because I have questions about smurfing too.  It has to be one of the most difficult forms of cheating to punish because how do you actually define and even catch smurfing?  For instance, I had two guys on my team in wildcard last week that said they both came over from Fortnite and it was their first week in apex.  They were even scared we had lost once because we fell off a tall cliff and they were used to taking fall damage in Fortnite and were surprised when they saw apex didn't have fall damage.  They both got shotguns and just shot at people the best they could, but they had built up lightning quick reflexes from their time in Fortnite and we actually finished 2nd place in that wildcard match.  Makes you wonder when people saw them with fresh accounts and default skins if they didn't report them for smurfing.  So, how can we tell someone isn't just a veteran FPS player who happens to get lucky in their first apex matches versus a smurf.

On the flipside, my first victory in apex was my very first match after my orientation matches were done.  I was placed with two guys with new accounts and they both told me they were championship players who were trolling beginner lobbies for the fun of it, and that if I kept my mouth shut the whole game and just stayed behind them they guaranteed me my first victory in apex.  I didn't know this violated the rules at the time so I went with it.  It's funny I was so green at the time one of them said "You M-F-, you just made me waste my push" and I responded "Hey, what does a push look like?  I'll go try to find one in the loot boxes in this building."  They laughed at me and explained what a push was, and told me to stay in the firing range for awhile before playing when I told them apex was my first FPS game. lol  Anyway, we won that match and it was definitely smurfing, they could have been reported for that.

So, I'm wondering how do they know someone is smurfing?  Also, as the OP says, does it do anything to actually report it?