MM full of smurfs?

[The real Norm Macdonald]

I just got the game and being matched against people with no mmr or that other score but the games are so one sided, that I cant win a single round.
Is this game just full of smurfs who enjoy seal clubbing?

[HolgFromHell]

No, it isn't.
Probably you need to practice more before facing othr real players.
Try first to win against AI and learn the Mechabellum mechanisms.

[HolgFromHell]

There are a lot of websites and videos to gain knowledge.
e.g.
https://mechamonarch.com/

[Avallach]

I think the first 10 games while it's working out your MMR you won't see it for your opponents either? Or maybe it's just matching you with other people starting out who haven't completed their 10 games yet. Some of them might have spent hours watching high MMR players and learnt from them before starting on ladder themselves, or played a bunch of FFA before starting 1v1, so they'll naturally start out with better knowledge of the game. Early on, for people whose MMRs haven't stabilised yet, I guess you'll get some pretty wild mismatches like that.

I've only been playing a few weeks and I've definitely lost hard a few times, but I always learnt something from losses and I'm slowly getting better. Matchmaking has been pretty good - once my starting MMR was established most games have been against people within 100 MMR of me, and I don't think I've had anyone more than 150 off.

If there was a smurf or two among them, does it even matter? Don't worry too much about trying to watch your MMR grow just yet. Just learn from losses, and take the opportunity to try new things out while there's not much pressure. Once you start to learn the game some more your MMR will naturally rise. And if you lose some MMR to a smurf along the way, hey, it's just an opportunity to have the game throw you a few easier matchups again :-)

[Kozary]

most smurfs are in the 700-1000 range testing dumb strats

[StupidSexyBigChunga]

yea it can be disheartening when your first match is against someone with over 88,000 power score.

[Eugen]

Smurfs are totally in the game. How much - It seems to me that they are a minority. I have quite high MMR rating and playtime but I still often played against newbies (0-60'000 power Score) for maybe last 2 months in No Ranked 1v1 matches.
From maybe 20 Matches there were maybe max. 2 Players that played excellent with their Playtime (called Power score). Excellent but still not that great - I would say around (700-950 MMR, felt like they were in general good (prepared?) tacticians rather smurfs). And there was only one player (somewhere above 50'000Power) I experienced out of all relatively new players (~55-70) who played suspiciously super good.

However - In my MMR area (~1300) after about 400hours gameplay or so I still experience such situations as you describe - Losing every round, experiencing a totally one sided match sometimes. This usually happen against players with a bit higher MMR than me but way less often if they 100-200 points bellow me and especially if I choose to play something risky or newly or if I'm in a bad mood.
And if I remember it right such situations happened to me way more often in 400-1000 MMR area since there were so many different strategies I just didnt understand how to counter them at all from the beginning on. So I got snowballed more easily.

In theory Smurf'ing should'nt be that much of a thing here since this game need's to payed a relatively good price for.

[Symbioz]

During your placement matches the opponent scores are hidden. It's not Smurf you just don't know.

[Hotklou]

Originally posted by StupidSexyBigChunga:

yea it can be disheartening when your first match is against someone with over 88,000 power score.

I've only been playing for 2 weeks and I've beaten near a dozen 1v1s against opponents that had 70k+ power score, both during my placement matches and after. Even won a FFA match with 3 opponents that had upwards of 100-120k power score. That number is not a very good indicator of skill.

[StupidSexyBigChunga]

Originally posted by Hotklou:

Originally posted by StupidSexyBigChunga:

yea it can be disheartening when your first match is against someone with over 88,000 power score.

I've only been playing for 2 weeks and I've beaten near a dozen 1v1s against opponents that had 70k+ power score, both during my placement matches and after. Even won a FFA match with 3 opponents that had upwards of 100-120k power score. That number is not a very good indicator of skill.

Indeed, I have yet to match up against anyone that has used flanking in 1vs1 despite people with over 100,000 power score.

[PrinzMegahertz]

Originally posted by The real Norm Macdonald:

I just got the game and being matched against people with no mmr or that other score but the games are so one sided, that I cant win a single round.
Is this game just full of smurfs who enjoy seal clubbing?

Just keep going at it. If loosing against humans frustrates you, have a go against the AI until you have a good understanding of what the units do and what to use them for

[StupidSexyBigChunga]

Originally posted by PrinzMegahertz:

Originally posted by The real Norm Macdonald:

I just got the game and being matched against people with no mmr or that other score but the games are so one sided, that I cant win a single round.
Is this game just full of smurfs who enjoy seal clubbing?

Just keep going at it. If loosing against humans frustrates you, have a go against the AI until you have a good understanding of what the units do and what to use them for

Yea even playing 2 vs 2 ai can help if your partner is better than you cause you can see their counters in real time. BUt now that they have added drop in replays you can spectate the best players and then play their rounds.

[The real Norm Macdonald]

Originally posted by Symbioz:

During your placement matches the opponent scores are hidden. It's not Smurf you just don't know.

Ah, thats helpful and probably explains it for my situation.

[Arti_Sel]

Originally posted by StupidSexyBigChunga:

Originally posted by Hotklou:

I've only been playing for 2 weeks and I've beaten near a dozen 1v1s against opponents that had 70k+ power score, both during my placement matches and after. Even won a FFA match with 3 opponents that had upwards of 100-120k power score. That number is not a very good indicator of skill.

Indeed, I have yet to match up against anyone that has used flanking in 1vs1 despite people with over 100,000 power score.

If they got insanely high combat score and low mmr, it's likely a child or someone who likes to play inebriated.

Originally posted by The real Norm Macdonald:

I just got the game and being matched against people with no mmr or that other score but the games are so one sided, that I cant win a single round.
Is this game just full of smurfs who enjoy seal clubbing?

If you are new to a game it might just be that you are temporarily the worst person in the entire game. If you don't know stuff like approximate movement speed of units or even what units you are buying then it's very unlikely that you will win even against an inebriated child.

And even if you stop losing hard the winrate is going to settle at 50/50 unless you are good enough to beat top players.

[glythe]

Originally posted by The real Norm Macdonald:

Is this game just full of smurfs who enjoy seal clubbing?

Some people abuse the family sharing feature and make new accounts.