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Two Accounts, Two ladder personalities?

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AGIANTSMURF
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1232 Posts
December 20 2011 03:17 GMT
#1
I ladder on 2 accounts, Primarily because I thought I could use my "Smurf" account (Dont ask why or how i got it) to warm up or practice new builds for laddering on my "Main" account

however, overtime I noticed I would still lose to bad players on my main account, however on my Smurf account, I would destroy people and maintain a decent win%

For some reason, an account I originally deemed for practice and warming up, has become higher ranked then the account I intended to play seriously on.

I feel like my whenever I play on my main account, I am on a permanent tilt from which I cannot recover.

Here are my finishes for season 5:

Main acount:


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Smurf account:


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Sometimes I feel as if when I play on my main account, I'm much more sucestabile to losing to various cheeses and random timings. I try to stay as focused as possible, sometimes even listening to music.

I try to pretend as if I dont care about either account in the hopes that I will have a more relaxed mentality going into each game on my main account. But with every silly and dissapointing loss (losses due to random luck timings or really noobie mistakes on my part such as supply blocking while defending a timing push, or forgetting to start an upgrade/tech path) My mentality only gets worse.

Its almost as if each of my different accounts has its own personality, One of them is good at SC2, the other is pretty bad -____-

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Thats "Grand-Master" SMURF to you.....
nerfherder182
Profile Joined December 2011
53 Posts
December 20 2011 03:26 GMT
#2
man your protoss. im leaving this thread.. QQ
ReketSomething
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States6012 Posts
December 20 2011 03:28 GMT
#3


I thought it was going to be about you being a BM rager on one account with many many stories while a GM player on the other...

boringg zzZzzZz

just play for fun!
Jaedong :3
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24752 Posts
December 20 2011 03:35 GMT
#4
Haha that's very interesting AGIANTSMURF.

Figures things would go exactly the opposite of how you expect XD
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munchmunch
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada789 Posts
December 20 2011 03:40 GMT
#5
Except that now that you've noticed this pattern, you'll probably start to be nervous while playing your smurf, and relaxed on your main.
Alejandrisha
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6565 Posts
December 20 2011 03:41 GMT
#6
haha this is so true. you become your smurf identity if you can conceal it well enough. and this identity may be a bit more bm than your own!
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endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
December 20 2011 03:41 GMT
#7
Yo smurf so giant, you take two lines in the left menu of TL.
ॐ
KleineGeist
Profile Joined June 2011
United States52 Posts
December 20 2011 03:45 GMT
#8
On December 20 2011 12:28 ReketSomething wrote:
I thought it was going to be about you being a BM rager on one account with many many stories while a GM player on the other...

boringg zzZzzZz

yeah i feel misled by the title lol... also, I wouldn't call that different personalities.
but yeah i could see that being funny, logging onto the smurf account and keep winning, "wtf, need to lose so i can play on my main", keep winning
monk
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States8476 Posts
December 20 2011 03:55 GMT
#9
Lol, not much of a smurf. All I had to do was click on humble or dime's account to find that division =P.
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unit
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States2621 Posts
December 20 2011 04:02 GMT
#10
On December 20 2011 12:55 NrGmonk wrote:
Lol, not much of a smurf. All I had to do was click on humble or dime's account to find that division =P.

rofl, gj xD

i think it might be an mmr thing...like for me i go on serious losing streaks when i tilt so my mmr is shit on ladder yet i can still play evenly with my teammates and borderline GM level players (which is part of the reason i hate ladder...because i tilt so often on it the practice i get when my mind is in the right place is basically nonexistant)
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20322 Posts
December 20 2011 04:09 GMT
#11
My performance in sc2 but more measurably in Osu drops so much when i am stressed or anxious it is pretty funny, you are probably just subconsciously more comfortable on your "smurf account" so you play slightly better
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Gryffes
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United Kingdom763 Posts
December 20 2011 04:09 GMT
#12
Yeah way to censor your name lol.


www.youtube.com/gryffes - Random Gaming Videos.
Zeke50100
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States2220 Posts
December 20 2011 04:39 GMT
#13
Oh, the coincidental irony :D

Does your smurf have smurf in the name?
Keyboard Warrior
Profile Joined December 2011
United States1178 Posts
December 20 2011 04:55 GMT
#14
Hahaha the irony!
Not your regular Keyboard Warrior ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Bibbit
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada5377 Posts
December 20 2011 05:00 GMT
#15
LOL I didnt even need to stalk one of the other people, thats totally my freaking division !
MinscandBoo
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
252 Posts
December 20 2011 05:10 GMT
#16
when i used to play sc2 i had one account that i strictly 1v1 laddered on and another where i did lulzy things like customs, 4v4's and cheesing as random in 1v1. Very different mentalities for the two
Swords! Not words!
-_-
Profile Blog Joined November 2003
United States7081 Posts
December 20 2011 05:31 GMT
#17
Did you start the smurf at a different time than the main? As I understand it, different divisions of master can have different skill levels. So even if you have more points in one division, you might have a lower MMR.

That said, I haven't read the ladder guide in quite some time. Please read Excalibur's great thread.
TylerThaCreator
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States906 Posts
December 20 2011 05:33 GMT
#18
This happens because you tend to gain mmr much more rapidly on an alt account vs a main one so you catch up to your main's mmr very quickly and probably even exceed it easily.
aka SethN
jacosajh
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
2919 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-20 05:56:41
December 20 2011 05:55 GMT
#19
Was your censorship of your name on purpose or a joke.
Slivered Skin
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada347 Posts
December 20 2011 05:58 GMT
#20
On December 20 2011 14:55 jacosajh wrote:
Was your censorship of your name on purpose or a joke.


I'm guessing it was a joke. I'm also guessing he used to use his smurf to help him ghost some games. >.>
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