Marked accounts? Cursed mmr? What even is this?

Hibeki··2 votes·667 views

Hey guys, I have an interesting claim here.

So, recently I had started an alt (smurf) to play with my lower elo friend. This account im posting with is Gold IV and has the mmr of such. Its stayed this way for a long time. This is not the smurf. My smurf is Kurieko.

Now most of my games usually end very sloppily, one or two people on a team legit int. Sometimes up to 3 or 4. For the vast majority of games.

I can pull up my match history and show almost every single game has someone who basically inted the whole game. Doesnt farm, doesnt show up to teamfights, whatever. SOMEONE was high.

Now Im not going to make this a post about this being "This is why I lose all my games" etc. Here's where the smurf comes in.

My smurf is basically the exact same rank and mmr now. Except, that account does not have this experience AT ALL. Everyone is equally bad or good and the games are WAY more consistent than this account.

This isn't a coincidence. On account in Gold IV MMR facing with and against int-ers almost every single game, and another account RARELY seeing them.

My smurf climbs steadily because I consistently do well. This account bounces back and fourth between gold IV and III due to inconsistent opponents and teammates.

Comparing the two match histories, its clear that one has games with rare inting teammates, while another has them common.

What does this mean? Are accounts flagged for gameplay? Im sure this isnt a fallacy, this large of a sample size should be enough to prove its not a coincidence....

7 Comments

Kurieko1 votes

Posting here to show this is also my account.

Lunar Lunacy1 votes

I notice a difference just between solo/duo and flex queue. My solo/duo mmr is crap at the moment and my flex queue mmr is normal or slightly above average, and I get MUCH easier games in flex right now even though I'm the same rank in both.

Sona Ping1 votes

Look up smurf account, Kurieko Last game had teammate with 12 deaths Game before that was a loss with you and two others being 3/5 team members with 9 deaths.

Look up cursed account, Hibeki. Last game had teammate with 11 deaths Game before that was a loss with you and two others being 3/5 team members with 9 deaths (and one 8)

I'm not quite convinced of the curse.

Sona Ping1 votes

You can cut the post off here. But you are are right about something. It's not a coincidence.

There is a constant that is there which accounts for this.

It's you. You are the reason for the difference in your accounts. Specifically, your perception of them. On one account, you made fresh to play with someone you are good enough friends with to do such a thing while the other you think is somehow cursed and is marked with something that will cause you to have an awful experience. It's no mystery as to why, when you already have such negative ideas about it, you would go into your game searching for negative things. That you would look at your games and thinking negatively about the players and call them inters, when you compare it to an account you are climbing with (and have been matched against lower rated players on) and think differently about its history. So you start thinking up and believing in this "elo hell-marked accounts" nonsense.

Hibeki1 votes

four games, wow what a sample size.

Automated Riven1 votes

I am 99% sure that posts like this are just perspective. Same with toxicity and everything. I have played thousands of games of league and I almost never run into what other people claim happen every game. I even duo with people who rage a ton more then I do and still people are rarely toxic.

Hibeki1 votes

Then why is it on both accounts its entirely different story?

One account i rarely encounter them, another its super common

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