So many smurfs and awful matchmaking in silver

[Just another Ian]

I cant play competitive anymore. I had 2-3 matches in a row with smurfs. One person actually advertised their stream saying they are top 500 Punisher playing in silver competitive. he got like 60 kills and 0 deaths. my team kept running into his fire like mindless zombies as I healed them. tried climbing as Luna and Magneto and its impossible. Did not matter how much space I took as magneto or how much I healed. I utilize all my cool downs and deal a lot of damage as Luna. I freeze divers to pick them off. Lat round only 2 dps on my team and guess who they picked: Black Widow and Hawkeye. Vanguard picked dive heroes. They dove n while the two long range dps stayed back.

I really think a lot of this could be mitigated if they just introduced placement matches every season and a system to detect smurfing and throwing as smurfers will throw in placement matches. I know you can report, but AI could easily detect this. I know I am not the best player but shouldn't be hard stuck in Silver. Silver should be beginner matches not a damn slog and mix of skill levels like it is now where you roll the dice every time.

[Gołąbki]

I mean it's quite normal in other games but it will hinder marvel rivals playerbase count just like every other game. People smurfing and destroying ranked MM on purpose because winning with 20+ kills tastes diffrent

[THAT Guy]

Originally posted by Gołąbki:

I mean it's quite normal in other games but it will hinder marvel rivals playerbase count just like every other game. People smurfing and destroying ranked MM on purpose because winning with 20+ kills tastes diffrent

Only when you don't understand the systems at play..

Players who smurf, aren't the actual problem here..

The matchmaking this game uses makes it virtually impossible for a smurf account to remain a smurf account, at least not without requiring the player to hard throw half their matches. So smurf accounts skill rating grows so quickly they can't stay smurfs for very long.

Most of the "smurfing" is actually just "forced losses' occouring lower skill levels, and/or the "smurf" is just someone who exploits the design flaws of the matchmaking system to their advantage..

People just blame smurfs because they don't understand what's going on and are jumping to conclusions based solely upon what they see in front of them.

I mean overwatch never had a smurfing problem (despite tons of players doing it) it was only after overwatch 2 and they changed the matchmaking system to one similar to the one this game uses, did the smurfing problem start..

There's a handful of reasons as to why, but they all circle back to the matchmaking working as intended