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zatic
Zurich15325 Posts
But, multiple times I see people on the ladder calling me out for "smurfing" in-game. Like they don't look at my profile after a game, but right after the match begins complain about smurfing. Do people look up their opponents somehow as Bnet matches them? Or is it just guessing / coincidence? Especially the last couple of days I was confused by several people calling me smurf before the game really got going. And I checked old replays and haven't played them before. What gives? | ||
Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
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onPHYRE
Bulgaria909 Posts
On April 26 2022 20:10 Nakajin wrote: Is you portrait border still master? How can his portrait border still be masters when he is no longer masters…? | ||
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zatic
Zurich15325 Posts
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ArtyK
France3143 Posts
Complaining about smurfs has become almost as common as balance whine in lower leagues nowadays. Due to an actual increase in smurfing or just a collective subconscious thing I don't know. Things like the ability to queue offrace, or unranked, or unranked offrace definitely created this atmosphere where the moment your opponent feels like you're outplaying them, you're not legit. Yeah, they can tell in a single sample game at their high level of diamond... I think they're just mad. | ||
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AmericanUmlaut
Germany2577 Posts
I think it's just so emotionally hard for people to accept being defeated that they'll look for any explanation that doesn't require them to process the idea that they deserved to lose because they didn't play as well as their opponent. For whatever reason i seems it's much less painful to one's ego to imagine that some pro beat you during a Bronze to GM stream or something than to accept that someone who is "merely" also high diamond was able to hit their timings or scout properly or deflect an attack or whatever. | ||
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zatic
Zurich15325 Posts
Like: glhf great, another smurf, f&%^^ you So I'll just chalk it up to coincidence or having played them before on another account of theirs. | ||
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ArtyK
France3143 Posts
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Charoisaur
Germany15929 Posts
On April 26 2022 20:01 zatic wrote: I play SC2 on and off, mostly on my account that I had since 2010. On that account I have been Master a few times back in WoL / HotS, but now I am nowhere near that (hovering around 3800-4000). But, multiple times I see people on the ladder calling me out for "smurfing" in-game. Like they don't look at my profile after a game, but right after the match begins complain about smurfing. Do people look up their opponents somehow as Bnet matches them? Or is it just guessing / coincidence? Especially the last couple of days I was confused by several people calling me smurf before the game really got going. And I checked old replays and haven't played them before. What gives? This happened to me too. One guy then said it's because he has never played me before and therefore assumed I must be a smurf. Very confusing to me because at my skill level(4,6k-4,9k) it should be normal to not always get the same opponents? | ||
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Sent.
Poland9190 Posts
Yeah it's possible. Couldn't find a site that can show my old ranks directly but you can look up your profile on nephest.com/sc2/?#search and then click the link to your profile on starcraft2.com. | ||
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AmericanUmlaut
Germany2577 Posts
On April 27 2022 00:23 zatic wrote: Well I mean I get all that and I would understand if they call me a smurf AFTER the game. But it happened multiple times that they called me out within the first few seconds of the game. Like: glhf great, another smurf, f&%^^ you So I'll just chalk it up to coincidence or having played them before on another account of theirs. You know, now that you mention it I have definitely had this interaction before, too, of being accused of smurfing straight out the gate. I have abslutely no idea what that is, I guess I always assumed they had just requeued out of a really bad match that they assumed was against a smurf? I feel like it's in the same category as being greeted with "great, another cheezy all-inning a-mover idiot" because I'm Protoss. Just people being the way people are on the ladder. | ||
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[Phantom]
Mexico2170 Posts
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Sound1
France93 Posts
As you say, you play sc2 on and off, as many ppl nowadays. Nothing wrong with a 12th year game which is so hard to master. In results, I think we have a ton of different levels in lower leagues, that the MMR doesn't represent well enough. I mean, I am able to move my level between 2.8K and 3.3K MMR. At 2.8K MMR I can be smashed by 2.8K MMR opponent and sometimes smash him. At the end, the guy says Im smurfing. Can you tell me that is OK because I can reach 3.3K MMR ? Nope, because just like you, I play sc2 every days during a month, and I forget it during 2. So sometimes, I do have a 2.8 MMR level. I observed that before on the ladder. Some ppl at 2.8K MMR play way better than others at 3.3K MMR. I think that is the mark of a game which is played way less seriously than before. (I talk about lower leagues OFC) | ||
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esReveR
United States567 Posts
On April 28 2022 00:01 [Phantom] wrote: Well, for example If I get a Dark Voice Portrait Random guy I inmediately assume he is a smurf, or also the guy (Kashinski ? somehing like that) that is the default portrait used to mean you were a smurf because you didn't even bother to change the portrait of a new account. Maybe it's that? You're 100% right about the default portrait. But, why in the world would you assume someone is a smurf if they have the dark voice portrait? The fact that they have that portrait means that is their main account... What is your logic? I don't understand. | ||
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AmericanUmlaut
Germany2577 Posts
On April 29 2022 07:15 esReveR wrote: You're 100% right about the default portrait. But, why in the world would you assume someone is a smurf if they have the dark voice portrait? The fact that they have that portrait means that is their main account... What is your logic? I don't understand. "Smurfing" is often also used to refer to someone just intentionally tanking their account by mass leaving games to drop their MMR down to where they can get easy wins, instead of the more traditional meaning of a person playing on an entirely different account. | ||
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Infested.rine
33 Posts
I think people go to your profile. see the highest rank achieved master (with perhaps it being achieved multiple times) and assume you willingly lowered your mmr to play below that rank. That, plus the fact that people get salty when they lose. | ||
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