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.

  • PenguinTD@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    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.)