The other day I was five stacking unrated with friends. Our ranks aren’t too far apart (3 irons and 2 bronzes) but we often get placed against high silvers when we five stack, so we just play unrated. The enemy team was also a five stack (2 irons and 3 bronzes) with four of them being Twitch streamers, though I believe only of them had reached affiliate with 700 followers.

I honestly wasn’t even playing that well but I got an ace on the third round after picking up a vandal from the enemy. After a few more rounds, they started calling me sweaty and told me to stop smurfing and play in my own rank. The kills were pretty evenly distributed across the scoreboard, but because of the ace I was top frag.

They asked me to sit out a round to make it fair. I was playing A the whole time and they finally decided to go B, but by the time I had rotated my two other friends had already killed them all, so I really don’t think I was the only reason we were winning. In the end, they surrendered but not before typing more about how I was a terrible person for smurfing, that I should k*ll myself, and a lot of obscenities.

I guess my question is if there was an actual discrepancy in skill despite us all being around the same rank? I know that five stacks are more likely to play against other five stacks and that it sometimes causes higher ranked players to play against lower ranked ones, but is there really that much variety in low elo? I’ve only been accused of smurfing once before (also unrated and coincidentally on the same map).

Is it actually possible to smurf in unrated? And how much does your rank affect matchmaking in unrated? I thought the point of unrated was that it was separated from rank.