How to eliminate the smurfs/boosters destroying games
So, this is more of a shower thought as I had an epiphany while showering, and I legit didnt know if I was to include this here or in /showerthoughts but here it goes: what if there was an option in the ranked queue menu 'queue only with people that have 500+ games' or 'queue only with people that have 1000+ games'? I am pretty sure that there isnt a single smurf from archon - divine that has that much games, as a matter of fact, every smurf that I encountered in my games (cca. 4500 mmr, low divine skill) has approximately 200-400 games. Thoughts? Would this be a good thing to implement in order to eliminate smurfs? Because, if you think about it, if you queue only vs 'players that have more than 500+ games', inevitably, the smurfs can only queue vs one-another. So is this a win-win or am I missing something?
Posted Jan 1, 2020, 2:59 PM UTC
The idea has been proposed before but it would fracture matchmaking even more after ranks,region,party or solo,roles. The average fast queue match making is 2 minutes right now after going through all the above filters and with a declining player base more filters for ranked match making would just not be plausible.
I would much rather queue for a game for lets say 10 minutes and be sure that there will be no smurfs in that game, rather than queue for 3 mins and have atleast 1 smurf in the game.
I would too, mate.
Yeah, everyone says that, then they increase queue times and every pro says wtf queues are stupid long. It’s a constant back and forth. Probably the best step they could take is making a whole different system for high mmr games, but that’s not easy. They kinda did that with removing roles, but even that still has some pros upset.