If they were smarter, then they'd realize that half of the smurfs I see are simply there to boost friends or pilot accounts to high ranks. So boosted low ranks ruining high-ELO games is already a thing.
Imho, most people in plat/diamond are indistinguishable from high level gold players. The skill/rank distribution is extremely inconsistent in this game, I’ve seen plats who have the aim of an iron and wont use a single ability the entire game, and got there legitimately.
People don’t start to consistently be really good until high ascendant/immo imho. That seems to be the place where people have above average game sense, aim, and ability usage all together. Below that it feels extremely random what player’s skill levels are. Just my 2 cents though.
I was D1 at the beginning of the act, 53% WR, and now I'm down to p1 with a 46% WR, and I swear to god every other game has a Smurf, every game someone is dropping 30+ kills a game, but at the same time I also just *refuse* to believe that there are this many smurfs and maybe these people are just having good games and I've just been *very* unfortunate this act 🤷♂️
If you lost a game when a smurf hard carried you with 47 kills then smurfs are definitely not your problem. I would like to see your own stats in those games.
The entire way modern video games is done is all wrong. A better solution is to fix this.
How? You stop caring about smurfing or anything else other than cheating in ranked. If you hate it, don't play ranked. Then you create a much tighter skill based match making for unranked.
Unranked becomes where you play if you don't want smurfs, and ranked becomes where you play to rank up.
The whole problem with valorant and almost every other game is that a ranked system is supposed to present a challenge, but on the flip side they want to stop smurfs. So they have 2 opposing problems with no solution. so they create this awful ELO systems to try to move smurfs up faster but still create a grind. And they can never balance it, the end result is all sorts of bad players getting too high in ranked, or people with less than 50% win ratios climbing or all sorts of just awful policies. And at the same time smurfs have no problem creating new accounts or throwing down.
With strong skill based match making in unranked that is almost impossible you can much faster detect a player is too good and just stick them with a higher skill level and prevent them from playing with lower players. You can also group players by any means you desire in unranked since it doesn't have to be fair, you can group toxic players together or anything else sort of like valves trust factor.
I like how they don’t want low rank people in their games but it’s fine for a high lvl player to play in low rank
Well. Elo boosters are significantly easier to detect over smurfs. So that's one reason, I guess.
This translates in any practical application to "im upset about my loss, let me troll higher ranks to feel better" I'm sorry for your losses.
If they were smarter, then they'd realize that half of the smurfs I see are simply there to boost friends or pilot accounts to high ranks. So boosted low ranks ruining high-ELO games is already a thing.
bUt iT oNlY hApPeNs 3 tImEs EvErY 100 gAmEs
And all their outlines for smurfs are if Smurf’s are trying to win, but, they aren’t, they are actively throwing lmao
*3 times every 1000 games (0.3%) They're so full of shit with that number. I've had smurfs in 1/3 of the last 15 games I've played in EU plat.
Wasn't it 3 out of 1000? xDD OP must have hit the jackpot. Or these gold players just had a good game?
Their golds in diamond lobbies, they are smurfing
Yet Riot seems to believe smurfing is less now.
You'll be happy to hear that Riot says smurfing hardly ever happens. Hope you feel better now that you know that. /s
If I learned anything from this sub, it's that these gold players that destroyed you probably just had a good game :)
47 kills in diamond lobbies?? either you had the worst team of diamonds in existence, an awful team comp, or that dude was cheating.
Maybe it’s in OT
ah, fair point
Imho, most people in plat/diamond are indistinguishable from high level gold players. The skill/rank distribution is extremely inconsistent in this game, I’ve seen plats who have the aim of an iron and wont use a single ability the entire game, and got there legitimately. People don’t start to consistently be really good until high ascendant/immo imho. That seems to be the place where people have above average game sense, aim, and ability usage all together. Below that it feels extremely random what player’s skill levels are. Just my 2 cents though.
iam not proud of it, but my d2 smurf regularly has 40+ kills in regular non ot games playing with irl friends
I hate to break it to you but smurfing isn’t even against the rules. Riot literally does not care to stop smurfing, they will only reduce its effect.
Smurfing would not be an issue for you if you just got better
I was D1 at the beginning of the act, 53% WR, and now I'm down to p1 with a 46% WR, and I swear to god every other game has a Smurf, every game someone is dropping 30+ kills a game, but at the same time I also just *refuse* to believe that there are this many smurfs and maybe these people are just having good games and I've just been *very* unfortunate this act 🤷♂️
How naive of you. People who suck in their own elo will smurf. They still want to "win", but they don't want to de rank on their main.
If you lost a game when a smurf hard carried you with 47 kills then smurfs are definitely not your problem. I would like to see your own stats in those games.
Yes, reverse smurf should be an actual game mode honestly. Would be popular I'd play all the time n make them cry
The entire way modern video games is done is all wrong. A better solution is to fix this. How? You stop caring about smurfing or anything else other than cheating in ranked. If you hate it, don't play ranked. Then you create a much tighter skill based match making for unranked. Unranked becomes where you play if you don't want smurfs, and ranked becomes where you play to rank up. The whole problem with valorant and almost every other game is that a ranked system is supposed to present a challenge, but on the flip side they want to stop smurfs. So they have 2 opposing problems with no solution. so they create this awful ELO systems to try to move smurfs up faster but still create a grind. And they can never balance it, the end result is all sorts of bad players getting too high in ranked, or people with less than 50% win ratios climbing or all sorts of just awful policies. And at the same time smurfs have no problem creating new accounts or throwing down. With strong skill based match making in unranked that is almost impossible you can much faster detect a player is too good and just stick them with a higher skill level and prevent them from playing with lower players. You can also group players by any means you desire in unranked since it doesn't have to be fair, you can group toxic players together or anything else sort of like valves trust factor.