The night I went blue ...
by EdwardDLuffyOriginal Post
Bored with this LTM, I decided to try this smurfing lark. Here's how it ended up.
Some observations:
1) It took me two attempts to complete training. The first time, LL's care package simply would not land. The second time I had to go close to the dummies to get it to land, far from Pathfinder. That must be bewildering to a newb.
2) I only found the first ten games are so were 'easy' - after that it was back to normal (as PUBS, anyhow).
3) You meet lots of other smurfs.
4) Some people are really bad at the game, I mean really bad. In one game in which I got 1,300 damage, Rev (who survived as long as me) got 17.
5) The key thing for me is '0' wins. I didn't even get close. As soon as you encountered a team with one more smurf on their squad than yours, you're dead.
In conclusion, I didn't enjoy it. The only bit I remember enjoying was a squad wipe at Labs, but it was just a normal squad wipe. I knocked one, hide, healed, waiting to hear the revive, popped out, hit the reviver and then 1v1d with the other dude and won.
I did enjoy it when an obvious genuine newb stuck to me like glue. I hope I helped them with movement and positioning. Most of the time though you're playing solo as newbs just don't want to fight.
And so endeth my smurfing career. Back to Ranked today 
This is probably my only complaint with SBMM. I never get legit noobs on my team anymore. It was so much fun when I'd get the chance to carry someone to their first win in Apex. They'd get so excited about it, such a good time.. Match is ending "so uh wanna squad up?!" you could hear the nervousness/fear of rejection. I'd always say no and send them an invite to play some more.
@EdwardDLuffy I did this also a long time back, as a test of whether sbmm is actually protecting newbs, I do think I made a topic regarding it...I've slept since then though so who knows?
First game, it was all news, ran around with two mozambiques and clocked 15 kills. Had 2 more similar games messing around with high kills and then it returned me to normal lobbies. So we can safely say that sbmm is protecting newbs somewhat...the core issue definitely lies in the ease with which players can create alt accounts to smurf with.
I'm tempted to make another and deliberately play awfully just to see how long sbmm does protect bad/new players...It's kinda hard to play worse than your opponents in that kinda lobby though so I doubt I'd get any realistic results.
P.s I approve of your choice of smurf name. 
@EdwardDLuffyEveryone, raise pitchforks, light up the torches! We have found a smurf cheater! We must punish him! We must end the blue race
Pointy garb aside, my smurfing experience was different, but can't say it's been fun at all.
I started a secondary account on my work PC because of very different setup and environment, restrictions, etc.. Played Winter Express almost exclusively and only pubs after that LTM ended. LTM fights were a pain as SBMM didn't seem to apply there and I also had very different, roughly tuned peripherals and a huge amount of input lag because my access to settings is pretty restricted.
In pubs, first game was a win, with 6 kills, 1K+ of damage and both teammates dead and spectating, although I was still struggling to overcome the input lag. It didn't feel satisfying, the teammates were more trouble than help, the enemies were literally sitting ducks, not dodging bullets, not pushing, not running away, not using abilities, not healing or otherwise doing these right in the open. It was arguably easier than fighting the AI enabled dummies in the firing range (by the way, I also had issues when trying to complete the tutorial, Lifeline's care package not landing in the first dozen attempts or so).
A few games later, I had the 2K on Lifeline, a couple of wins and my KDR peaked at 8. But it felt very frustrating, I couldn't build anything with my teammates, they were very unpredictable and obviously lacking skill. Sometimes I had other smurfs in my team, those resulted in wins or at least top 3 with good damage and kill count. When there were smurfs in the enemy teams only, the match ended much quicker, usually in a 1v2 or 1v3. Anyway, there weren't that many smurfs and, as I was advancing, I started to see more higher level players around anyway.
Around level 24, the game finally pushed me out of the beginner lobby. How did I noticed that? Easy! My KDR was at 5 or so and literally the first game after reaching 100 kills and buying Caustic, my team got vaporized in mere seconds by a full premade pred team, where my killer had about 11K kills and 1K+ wins for S7 alone (after 2/3 of it!). I spectated them, they had to be pros, judging by how they played together, their impeccable movement and spot on aim.
Now, sitting at 43 hours, most stats are similar to those on my main account, but the experience is awful. I have to struggle with the input lag while facing skilled enemies. I can't care about battlepass grinding, as a lot of challenges depend on locked legends , while rerolling dailies not only eats up precious tokens, but is also very broken (if you do a second reroll, there's a very high chance you will get the initial challenge again). The fact that it takes 25 hours or more to unlock one legend with tokens is one of the most absurd things in this game at this point.
