Is smurfing a reportable offense?

[Mitrovarr]

I've seen some GM+ players with like 5 hours playtime in comp. Obvious smurfs. Is that reportable? It was in OW as rank manipulation.

[Roland's 2nd]

There's no category for it.
They need to add a category for it, but then the question becomes: how to prove it.

[᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼]

imagine reporting

[._e_n_g_i_n_e_e_r_.]

Should be

[Mitrovarr]

Roland's 2nd a écrit :

There's no category for it.
They need to add a category for it, but then the question becomes: how to prove it.

I mean if someone comes in with 7 hours total in the game and plays like a GM level BP, it doesn't take a rocket scientist.

Also, the "punishment" could just be assigning them to their appropriate rank, which would fix the problem but not damage the account long term.

[Basarab Laiota]

nope

[Fartin' Futa King]

Mitrovarr a écrit :

Roland's 2nd a écrit :

There's no category for it.
They need to add a category for it, but then the question becomes: how to prove it.

I mean if someone comes in with 7 hours total in the game and plays like a GM level BP, it doesn't take a rocket scientist.

Also, the "punishment" could just be assigning them to their appropriate rank, which would fix the problem but not damage the account long term.

People could play on other platorms, could play on other accounts they have lost access to, and some could just be very familiar with the genre.
We can't punish that, because it may be a mistake.
Game should have placement matches or rank "smurfs" faster giving them better opponents and allowing them to carry, providing like 80pts so they don't disrupt experience for other players as much.

[Paranoia_Inc]

If it was there'd be a lot more content creators whining about a banning for it.

[xTobu]

Crying over a smurf is insane ngl. Reporting someone for smurfing is even more delusional.

[Mister Zero]

I'm sorry, I'm really only a mid-tier casual player of these kinds of games but...

What is smurfing? I swear I've heard it before...

[BigScug A.K.A Heroic Mr. Piss]

xTobu a écrit :

Crying over a smurf is insane ngl. Reporting someone for smurfing is even more delusional.

Crying over someone intentionally ruining the experience for newer players is pretty reasonable. Especially for content creator smurfs. They usually mock or put down the other players because they play like a XXX rank (because they ARE that rank) It's the one of the scummiest things a gamer/creator could do. With some exceptions depending on the game ofc.

Smurfs are worse than cheaters, as they have both top level skills AND game knowledge, while cheaters only have artificial skill. Smurfs can't get detected and banned like cheaters (even worse is that if they're a content creator they even get payed for it.)
Smurfs are worse than toxic players, cause you can just mute/ignore toxicity.
Smurfs are worse than trolls, because they just ruin the experience with no chance for potentially funny moments. But they are pretty similar and some trolls can be a bit worse.
Smurfs are worse than leavers, because it's better to have a medium disadvantage then such a huge advantage it becomes boring. Same for both allies and enemies.

I'd rather play 10 matches with/against any of these before touching a match with a smurf. absolute ruffians.

[BigScug A.K.A Heroic Mr. Piss]

Mister Zero a écrit :

I'm sorry, I'm really only a mid-tier casual player of these kinds of games but...

What is smurfing? I swear I've heard it before...

Smurfing is basically when an extremely high level player (Top 10-15% or so) will create a new account (or reduce their rank with a bunch of losses) in order to get A. Content. B. Easy wins. C. Trolling/fun. D. Some person specific reason.
So they level an account to be ranked ready in a game, and stomp low ranks for one of the prior reasons before repeating it once their rank gets too high. Most commonly creators do "Unranked to Top rank" videos with a random character, for "educational purposes" so people can watch how to fight those their rank/how those in a rank act.

[Mister Zero]

BigScug A.K.A Heroic Mr. Piss a écrit :

Mister Zero a écrit :

I'm sorry, I'm really only a mid-tier casual player of these kinds of games but...

What is smurfing? I swear I've heard it before...

Smurfing is basically when an extremely high level player (Top 10-15% or so) will create a new account (or reduce their rank with a bunch of losses) in order to get A. Content. B. Easy wins. C. Trolling/fun. D. Some person specific reason.
So they level an account to be ranked ready in a game, and stomp low ranks for one of the prior reasons before repeating it once their rank gets too high. Most commonly creators do "Unranked to Top rank" videos with a random character, for "educational purposes" so people can watch how to fight those their rank/how those in a rank act.

So they're pretty much Logan Paul?

[Chaosolous]

lmao, no

[pirate135246]

if you were t500 in ow, hitting gm is a cake walk in this game. GM in rivals is like high plat low diamond on ow2 atm

[Wild Chamomile]

Ye, I always reporting them for sabotage