I wonder if others also have this feeling that during evenings smurfs are more prominent.
I’m silver 3 for some time and when I play during lunchtime I win all the games. Not super easily but I win them. Then I go up in ranking and in the evening when I play again I see a drastic increase of skill in my opponents. Which makes me barely win or loose and then I go down again few slots.
I have to say it’s quite annoying and I consider not playing competitive any more during late hours to finally be able to jump to gold.
More players means more smurfs. Playing at a time when lots of people are on makes it more likely you’ll run into someone who lowered their rank on purpose just to stomp lower level lobbies.
DotA2 recently banned 90,000 smurf accounts. They have about 400,000 players per day. That’s nearly 25% of players smurfing!
Maybe I’m just old, but I don’t remember games being like this. The amount of crybabies in Rocket League is insane. People leaving the lobby less than a minute in because of a goal (or even just sometimes a bad play) happens all the time. It wouldn’t shock me if people smurf because they hate losing so much. If you follow the pros they’re not any different. They’ll cry on social media after every loss blaming everyone but themselves. It’s sad really. It’s a game! It’s okay to lose!
some one run a statistic using some criteira(number of games won vs hours played) around end of season you will run into a smurf every 3 games in average for 2s, so 30% chance one of the player is a smurf. BUT, while running those, it also found that smurf party also only won ~50% of the time for their collected data. (note this mean some people run smurf to help their friend BUT lost because they can’t win against people in the same rank. Or, they simply run into another smurf party.)
But yeah, it sucks for us regular solo queuer cause the swings in match quality is quite huge. (also counting the boosted account that performs really badly at your rank after they are boosted.)