• moody@lemmings.world
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    9 months ago

    Isn’t a smurf supposed to be an account from an experienced user/player that’s meant to make them look new or lower ranked?

    Smurfing is when a high-level player trolls the lower ranks below their skill level.

    Lots of players have smurf accounts for games where high- and low-ranked players don’t get paired together, so they can play on the same team as their lower-ranked friends.

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      9 months ago

      This is absolutely what a ‘Smurf’ account is - someone who is very experienced or has a significant backing behind them accrued from other account(s) creating a newer account to pose as an inexperienced player in order to be matched with them. In World of Warcraft, a ‘Smurf’ is a character that you intentionally don’t let past a certain level and throw a tonne of gold and gear at so that when they come up against regular players that level they have an insane advantage.