How "Smurf Protection" Killed Ranked in Overwatch 2

so recently I discovered something pretty weird about the Smurf protection system and OverWatch 2. uh first of all if you don't know what it is basically what it does is if you're playing much higher than your ranks average output for example if you're surviving a lot more healing a lot more doing way more damage you have a higher KD you have a higher win rate than the average in your rank it artificially boosts your MMR to a higher rank where the game thinks you could be at your level a little more right for example if you're a gold player and you're playing really well like out of your mind like you just had two games where you dropped like four alims you basically never died you did a ton of damage stuff like that you make it thrown in a diamond Lobby right after okay and that's what Smurf protection is and it's really bad for the game I'm not gonna lie basically what's happening is is anyway it's all speculation but what I'm pretty confident is happening is a big reason the matchmaking is so [ __ ] is because the Smurf protection system just thinks everyone is smurfing basically what had happened was I wanted to play with someone that I haven't played with in years and I have an old account that I haven't touched since about season 10 of OverWatch and it basically never made it past silver it was like low silver High bronze it was my main Smurf for playing with my friends who were Laura ELO at the time uh but obviously I don't play with them anymore so I never used the account and I thought I want to rank that account up so I can use it if I want to play an A Higher yellow just on a different account right or if I want to learn a new hero or I just want to like mess around okay so I got my account I start queuing with um one of my friends who is obviously Laura elope but I can queue with them because the account is about silver bronze-ish and that's what they are so we're queuing and play one game and I'm on support and I'm uh parking him I'm on Anna they're playing Genji we're Nano blading I'm parking them along right anyway I'm obviously outperforming like drastically in the lobby because I'm a top 500 support player and I'm in bronze and silver I'm not like hard dpsing I'm not playing like super optimal layer properly I'm just kind of staying alive and heal boring right I'm not like turbo smurfing or anything super weird like that and they are just practicing because they haven't played the game in years and they wanted to play again anyway basically what happens is we they drop they go about 35 and 10 ish and I'm like two and oh at the end of a 15 minute game so it's not bad okay obviously I'm not doing a very good job on support but I don't want to anyway because that would be obviously pretty cringe right but after that game we were immediately thrown into a diamond Lobby which is not good where I actually have to pick up my performance a little bit for us to win so next game they they go 19 and 15 on Genji they don't have a very good game and I go 34 and 6 on Anna okay so obviously I perform a little bit I'm doing a lot more damage I'm killing a lot I'm healing a lot I'm staying alive anyway after that game we queue up again and we're in a GM game of OverWatch and then after that game my friend went yeah I don't know even he was like 8 and 12 at the end of like an eight minute game like it was really bad we played push we got completely stumped anyway they just didn't want to play the game anymore they just actually didn't want to play because they were in Grand Master MMR they just didn't want to play I'm like fair enough right you can solo queue you'll go back to bronze or whatever the only reason we're in this ELO is because of me anyway they so look here and I'll actually read the Discord message after eight more games of solo queue they are still in Grand Master MMR and they are still getting rolled they are having a horrible experience and they actually don't want to play the game anymore which is fine maybe partially partially this reason that it happened was it's because I queued with him and I boosted their MMR right that's what I thought so then I grabbed a new Fresh account never played ranked before I log I went on it and I just played very casually I didn't try to I didn't try to do really well I obviously tried to win but not like turbo carry okay I just wanted to do the bare minimum for my team okay that account ended up being about gold I think it was about gold three it placed which is good and I thought what would happen if I had one good game let's play and have one good game so I installed Genji IQ up or sorry IQ up I install up Genji I want 45 and four the next game I played had yeetle in it and it was a top 500 Lobby there were six other top 500 players in that game and the remainder players who were not top 500 were all gm1 I am a gold player this account was gold that was I did I did well one game before I got top 500 games anyway we lost which is fine uh and then the next team I queued up was Grandmaster and then I played obviously so I win and then I queue up again I win again I queue up again I win again which is fine but the account is now low Platinum but for the past about six games I've been in Grand Master which is fine it's obviously detected that I'm a GM level player and it puts me in GM top 500 lobbies which is fine that's doing a good job until I remembered that technically it's not doing a good job it's doing a very bad job because essentially what it's doing is is it's just checking for performance and if you have any decent performance whatsoever it immediately throws you in those Grand Master lobbies or much higher lobbies than it should okay and in my case it did a great job it actually did well recognizing I was smurfing and putting me in a higher Lobby that was good from this system however what's not good from the system is the fact that it took one game of me performing very well for it to completely like rocket my MMR up into the sky and give me GM games that is not good it didn't even push me up a little bit it put me to like mid top 500 level after one game so obviously the system is very volatile because there's no way it takes one game for me to go from gold lobbies to top 500 lobbies which is kinda dumb after all of this I'm a little bit confused I'm thinking that you know what the Smurf protection system is obviously probably a good thing for the game it's going to eliminate a lot of smurfing issues which it has which is good but I also think it's the main reason for a lot of these low ELO low level players they're getting these much higher ELO lobbies because essentially what's happening is if they ever perform well they're instantly throwing up hundreds of Sr instead of the little bit that they should the amount of times I've seen legitimate gold players in my top 500 games is a little insane because the same what I'm thinking is happening is these gold players are just having a really good game in gold or maybe they're like diamond level players but they have gold MMR so when they perform very well they get thrown up in Elo like enormously and they get thrown into these much too high lobbies for them where they end up getting completely stumped and then what happens is they get stomped from multiple games then eventually their MMR will will Decay to whatever it should be and then once that happens then they'll start ranking up their base Sr meaning it's going to take people forever to actually rank up their Sr but their MMR is extremely volatile and goes all over the place I'm okay with a Smurf protection system in the game I think it needs to be there for the most part but the way this system is implemented is either broken or it's badly designed because currently what's happening is anyone that's performing very well in their games is immediately thrown into much higher ELO lobbies than they actually deserve and I think that's a big reason for a lot of the rank inflation I think it's a big reason for a lot of the lower level players to be in those higher ELO lobbies where they end up performing very badly because they're just simply not good enough to play in those games and I think it's happening way more than it realistically should because obviously a system is going to have flaws and sometimes it will make mistakes and that's fine okay you can't expect the system be to be perfect you would expect it to at least work partially which it really kind of doesn't to be honest because the the fact that I can get so High ELO so unbelievably quickly really shouldn't be the case and this isn't an argument for me saying I want a Smurf it's me saying what if my friends just played a really good game and now they don't want to play anymore because they're in a much higher ELO Lobby which sucks for them now obviously for the very competitive player the ones that get very good this obviously won't be that problematic because they'll obviously see a situation to play against much better players and they'll probably be happy to however for your like average gold player who just wants to like be a gold player you know they're gonna have a terrible experience if they just queue up into their gold games and then all of a sudden they're in a diamond Lobby because in their last game they went they doubled their average KD or something or however the system works you know but it's just one of those things where I feel like the system wasn't thought through properly or it's not implemented properly and it's just simply not working anyway that's all I wanted to talk about thank you no way he's one dude

Channel: GREED-EU

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Keywords: Overwatch, Overwatch 2, Kovaaks, Kovaak, Aim, Aim god, Aim guide, Best aim, guide, how to, Dead by daylight, DBD, TTV, Streamer, Smurfing, smurf, top 500, Grandmaster, GM, t500, Carry, Carrying, Best, best player, CSGO, Valorant, reaction time, fast, fastest, fastest reaction time

Id: Av9GqZJEcxk

Length: 10min 19sec (619 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 21 2023