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Originally Posted by whatthejish
It would be one thing if they were already decent/OK at detecting and punishing stuff like smurfing. But, they've proven time and again that they either suck at it or legitimately don't care.
As a solid gold who flirts with platinum, it's really frustrating to match up against yet another tryhard streamer who's clearly smurfing just to record some "sick plays."
Also, the whole "grind from bronze to champ but I will limit myself to the skill level of what I'm playing" is complete and total bullshit. Any time you get some pace on these guys, they're instantly expert flying and re-flipping all over again-- can't help themselves.
Long ass time since you posted this but the smurfing in my opinion is a side effect of one of the worst ranking systems I’ve ever seen in a game. It’s completely nonsensical how much time/wins it takes to advance. I won at least at an 80% rate yesterday and it took me 8 hrs to climb through diamond still, no doubt causing an absolute miserable experience for the low diamond players that were getting absolutely pillaged by me. I’m not smurfing either, the game placed me here for some reason, despite being champ multiple times on this same account and having like a global 60% winrate.
If anyone from epic/psyonix can explain to me how it’s somehow possible to win 55% and not climb, i’d love to hear it, because that’s always been my experience with this ladder. 1 single loss seems to offset 3 wins.