Not defending smurfing for egotistical reasons as explained in this thread, but I can think of one legitimate reason. A friend of mine is a prodigy in Rocket League and literally couldn’t queue with myself and our friends due to his rank. He has a Smurf account just to play with us
This is what unranked modes are for, generally, and when there is no equivalent unranked mode that’s definitely a failure of the game. Csgo had that issue for a looooooooong time as well.
There are also other legitimate reasons. The drunk account can be one (since even unranked modes often use skill based matchmaking), or the actual practice one (I feel for my alternate universe teammates in which I didn’t use a smurf to learn how to play more than one char in league).
Bu5 I do feel like the negative impact from people using smurfs for ego boost or to be an asshole in some way far outweighs the upsides, sadly.
Many games still use SBMM in casual modes, they just don’tshow you what your elo equivalent is. As long as they generally all play together, the average skill of the group will hit equilibrium far faster with the smurf account than with the original one. There’s really no good answer here, but in this case at least the friends get a play session where they can participate meaningfully, even if they get a lot of wins they don’t deserve, and the opponents get one bad game. The alternative is the friends are crushed almost every game they play together, and the opponents get one easy game.
So they just artifically inflates yalls rank? You realize this only hurts you in the long run right, plus its just insanely scummy. Rocket league has a casual gamemode, you don’t need to ruin strangers days.
Not defending smurfing for egotistical reasons as explained in this thread, but I can think of one legitimate reason. A friend of mine is a prodigy in Rocket League and literally couldn’t queue with myself and our friends due to his rank. He has a Smurf account just to play with us
This is what unranked modes are for, generally, and when there is no equivalent unranked mode that’s definitely a failure of the game. Csgo had that issue for a looooooooong time as well.
There are also other legitimate reasons. The drunk account can be one (since even unranked modes often use skill based matchmaking), or the actual practice one (I feel for my alternate universe teammates in which I didn’t use a smurf to learn how to play more than one char in league).
Bu5 I do feel like the negative impact from people using smurfs for ego boost or to be an asshole in some way far outweighs the upsides, sadly.
Many games still use SBMM in casual modes, they just don’tshow you what your elo equivalent is. As long as they generally all play together, the average skill of the group will hit equilibrium far faster with the smurf account than with the original one. There’s really no good answer here, but in this case at least the friends get a play session where they can participate meaningfully, even if they get a lot of wins they don’t deserve, and the opponents get one bad game. The alternative is the friends are crushed almost every game they play together, and the opponents get one easy game.
So they just artifically inflates yalls rank? You realize this only hurts you in the long run right, plus its just insanely scummy. Rocket league has a casual gamemode, you don’t need to ruin strangers days.