This will continue happening until the Immortal threshold stops arbitrarily making it so you can only queue with people 900 mmr below you. If you’re below imnortal, you can queue with people 2000 mmr below you, if you’re 7k you can queue with people 2000 mmr below you, but if you’re exactly immortal you can only queue with people 900 mmr below you for some reason.
Just being an alt account doesn’t make it a smurf either. These kinds of accounts get put in the mmr they belong pretty quickly.
Grim is a completely clueless answer. Soul Bind is one of the strongest ultimates in the game. It’s a low cast time 6 to 8 second undispellable BKB piercing leash that gives true sight. It’s like a low cooldown Doom vs many heroes. Not to mention the level 15 talent is one of the strongest talents in the game if you have a core who can take advantage of it.
It’s truly stressful. It’s just the most punishing role, and it’s very easy to notice when people make mistakes playing carry and blame the match on them.
I mean, most fans have really bad opinions when it comes to comparing carry players. Just look how many people here think Dyracho is holding GG back when he’s the most important player on GG. Results oriented thinking underrates players who play around enabling their teammates compared to the players who are being enabled.
It has nothing to do with the actual change, it’s just that people at lower MMRs haven’t figured out the generally optimal ways to play current map. With the old map, at high MMRs, most people would more or less know how to play the macro game near optimally but be able execute things at different speeds. Now it’s actually more like chess with more creative decision making surrounding it. Old map was very stale for good players.
I don’t think people here can conceptualize how bad a 43% winrate on protracker actually is. It’s far worse than a 43% winrate across all brackets, because that means that only hero specialists are picking the hero and only in the best situations for the hero. If people in 9k+ games picked SF at the same rate as players in lower brackets in the same draft situations, the hero would genuinely have like a sub 30% winrate.
What server are you playing on where people are picking Silencer 5.
CK gets through sometimes, especially if you first phase it. I went against a CK mid in low immortal because the enemy mid first phased it in an attempt to ban it, and it still fucking worked because the hero is broken.
Because the role of supports within a team is not just too hard for casual viewers to see, it’s also often not even shown on the broadcast. One of the most important things for a support player to be doing in game is to simply be intaking information on the map for the team, and filtering what information is relevant to their team. Obviously, even pro core players have 10x the awareness of information available to them as even immortal support players, but there is a certain limit to their ability to intake information due to higher moment to moment micro requirements compared to support players. Intaking, processing, and communicating information is one of the main roles of a support player in a team.
Anyone thinking Ana just because he won twice really just don’t know how insane Yatoro is.
I mean, a proportion of people would. But the problem is cyclical, people smurf in party queue because party queue is full of smurfs, and people are smurfing in the first place because they literally can’t play with friends.