Something’s duo looks boosted

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D3veloper

Before I get into the details, I want to say that my English isn’t great, so I used ChatGPT to help with the translation. Please understand if anything sounds a bit off.

Recently, PRX something has been duoing very often with a suspicious account, and after looking into it, I honestly don’t know if this is acceptable behavior for a professional VALORANT player.

First of all, something has been duoing a lot with a player named pibble#ptrv (https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/pibble%23ptrv/overview?platform=pc&playlist=competitive&season=4c4b8cff-43eb-13d3-8f14-96b783c90cd2) (https://imgur.com/a/vM7yINg). But this player’s stats are extremely strange. Their tracker score is 188, their K/D is 0.6, and their damage/round is 86.9. I’m not even sure if this person is a real player.

And here’s where the real question begins:
How did this account reach Immortal 1?

When I checked their match history, even more suspicious things came up.

Here’s a screenshot of their usual agent pool. (https://imgur.com/a/t2agQdG)

This player normally picks non-entry agents like Omen, Clove, Sova, Cypher, etc. Even then, their K/D averages around 0.7–0.8 at best. (https://imgur.com/a/PYIse3s)

But suddenly, this account started playing 5-stack games. And they were completely stomping people. (https://imgur.com/a/tooy8jE)

Out of nowhere, they started picking agents they basically never played before—Neon and Waylay—and were hard-stomping teams in the Ascendant–Immortal lobbies. They climbed all the way to Immortal 1, and the moment they hit Immortal 1, the 5-stack stopped. Then right after that, they began duoing with something.

At this point, it seems like a very reasonable suspicion that this might be account boosting or account sharing.

And the stats get even stranger—their K/D dropped even further to 0.6 afterward. (https://imgur.com/a/0JQUyv1)

But something keeps duoing with this player in low-queue games, destroying the lobby while playing with this account.

A friend of mine who actually got matched against them told me no one in their team used voice chat at all. (https://imgur.com/a/bwjFtv2)

Based on everything I’ve seen, I can’t help but assume this might be his girlfriend’s account.

So here’s my question:
Is it really okay for a professional player like something to duo with someone who was likely boosted to Immortal 1, stomp low-MMR lobbies, and effectively boost his girlfriend in ranked?

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sawrice

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Who cares dawg this guy has a trophy and is insanely rich playing a video game just let him do anything he wants

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D3veloper

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bro what he doing is very unprofessional

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sawrice

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So? If you had a partner (gf/bf) who wasnt that good at the game but to have fun you queue with them and boost them to a rank they arent supposed to be then its wrong? something is only having fun let him dude.

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but then you are ruining a bunch of other players experiences by having a literal Masters winner smurfing the lobby

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sawrice

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Fair but in my opinion games shouldnt be this deep. Ranked is meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Games were created to have fun and sure maybe it isnt fair that someone higher skill is in your lobby but at least the guy isnt hacking. Look all I am saying is if you know a masters winner is in your game have fun w it cuz you know you arent winning ts

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D3veloper

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Games are meant to be fun, but ranked exists for fair competition. Having a Masters winner in your lobby is fine, but when a pro boosts or shares an account, it’s unfair and negatively affects other players. “It’s just for fun” isn’t an excuse to break the rules or harm the community.

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sawrice

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Ykw youre right. Lets ban something’s val account for a year. Happy?

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D3veloper

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Nerd.

Losing all points of conversation

Go learn how to conversation with others

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sawrice

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Go learn how to have fun while playing ranked

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Divine_Thunder

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"grand scheme of things" brother we are not discussing the fate of the universe.

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merciless-pity8989-89

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that’s not what that means

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D3veloper

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Being famous or rich doesn’t excuse harming other players’ experience. If a pro is boosting or account-sharing, it’s not “just having fun” — it’s unfair to the community and likely against the rules.

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uwukitten

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yes it's wrong the fuck 😭either play unrated or at least make a smurf, boosting their account for them to play in high ranks is the lowest thing you can do

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InYourDreams

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Did you forget mr regarding the heybay one

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fr0ster0p

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lothar ?

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Uncleben

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Holy shit those are some horrendous stats

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InYourDreams

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I have heard this somewhere

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glittering_yard

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If this is his girlfriend, she really sucks at the game lmao

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grisx23

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Absolutely lol that’s his girlfriend. If it was his friend or paid booster then it’s different story

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uwukitten

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WE will be lynching him for this
#firesomething
#releasethesomethingfiles

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koromast

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"is it okay for something to boost his girlfriend" bro thats quite literally what s0m does with fns on ranked LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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archetype

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that is fucked 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭

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💀

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DrudaL

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NAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH LMAOOOOOOOOO

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malims

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HAHAHAHAHAHAH

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REAAAL

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GarbanzoEnjoyer

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worse than my harbor stats holy

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archetype

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punishments for boosting only really exist in KR (where its seen as very unprofessional conduct) and maybe JP/CN?

outside of that on an organisational level nobody really gaf

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feyest

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ur right but it's still something to be frowned upon (no pun intended)

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merciless-pity8989-89

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i’ve heard players in cn get their pay docked for doing similar things

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sw4gman

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ive seen enough, ban something

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merciless-pity8989-89

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i’ve seen enough, kick PRX from VCT and ban ALL their players from playing against DRX

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geduelist

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nashedi babu

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merciless-pity8989-89

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Holy shit that person is so ass, atp you can’t even be enjoying the game. If it’s his gf they could just play unrated, so unnecessary to be playing ranked if ur gonna do that bad

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aaaaaaaape

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fucking soft ass community
what an example here

who gives a fuck

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merciless-pity8989-89

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flair

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king_bob

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damn theyre insane on neon they should play neon more no? 😸😸😸😸

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MrBlooBloom

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That has to be the 4748920th thread about a topic no one gives a shit about

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number1_Demon1_fan

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Shit happens
Ngl if it gets more traction org he will be told to stop and be removed a month of salary but it’s not hat big big though I do agree it’s irritating for pros to do this
But he also might have nothing to do with it

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burritx

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oh my fucking god bruh no one cares

"He who has no problems will always invent one"

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ipppppi

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Doesn't 5 stack only face against five stacks? And mmr wise they get reduced amount. I mean is it really thay big of a deal?

Idk dont play this game no more. Only watch it.

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aiber

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I’ve seen enough revoke our masters toronto trophy because of someone playing with his gf 😂😂

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1One1

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Don't be jealous if you are single

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sawrice

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Rare w 1One1 take

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Acethyr

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im gonna be honest bro, going through a player's match history and tracker to see who they're playing with is some crazy loser parasocial behavior.
if he is somehow duoing with this person on stream and you got suspicious by their bad performance then nevermind i guess
but if this is you just going through something's tracker looking for who he plays with and stuff you gotta go touch grass

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sawrice

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One of the few times I agree with a 100T fan but its true. Ranked isnt that deep go outside

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archetype

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it's not weird to go through a pro player's tracker though. people do it all the time, something has like 500k profile views.
so what do u think is more likely:
someone going through something's profile and found that he was duoing with someone who drops stinkers every game
someone who somehow knew that something was boosting a bad player beforehand and then dug through the tracker after

i myself noticed something was duoing with his gf ages before this thread was made because he legit used to duo with her for the majority of his games for a brief period this year. you can literally see it yourself. the 4 games from today are all with her and every game she is botfrag with single digit kills. it's not rocket science and you don't have to be parasocial to notice a pattern.

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Acethyr

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i dont really care about the context of what something's doing. if he wants to play ranked with his gf or whatever then hes free to do that.
it is NOT normal to go through who a pro player's playing with. looking at a tracker to see their stats and shit is one thing. taking the extra step to stalk who they play with is fucking creepy and parasocial.

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i literally said nothing about whether it was okay or not for something to play with his gf.

i am saying that it is literally normal to notice that he's duoing with someone who shits the bed every game because they literally do shit the bed every game. especially when it's almost every game something has played ranked. you can literally discover this pattern by scrolling down his current profile and looking at pretty much any random game he has played in the past like 3 days.

harassing anyone over it is parasocial but you don't have to be obsessed with anyone (aka parasocial) in particular to realise the 2 truths that:
something plays with his duo almost all the time
his duo is apparently very bad at the game

u can check it yourself: https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/PRX%20something%23112/overview?playlist=competitive&platform=pc&season=4c4b8cff-43eb-13d3-8f14-96b783c90cd2

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InYourDreams

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Yeah bro think it’s parasocial when there is literally a player who f0cking got punished for smurfing lol

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Acethyr

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and i never said you said anything about whether its okay or not either. it's simply the context of the thread. i'm saying i don't care about that context and hence your question of what's more likely is pointless.
i'm saying going through someone's tracker to see who they're duoing with is weird.
i'll put it for you this way, my favorite player is asuna. ive opened his tracker twice and both times ive only seen the stats and moved on. i don't think "hey let's open this game and see who he's playing with". it's fucking weird.
even if i did open a game i would at most see who he's playing with 1 game then move on. i wouldn't even notice if it's someone he regularly plays with.

this is literally just weird fucking behavior. you don't go through who a person is playing with and more than that you don't make a fucking thread exposing yourself to be a weirdo

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and i never said you said anything about whether its okay or not either. it's simply the context of the thread. i'm saying i don't care about that context and hence your question of what's more likely is pointless.

evidently it isn't pointless because you're basing your entire accusation on what you think is parasocial behaviour when it's very likely not actually parasocial.

i'll put it for you this way, my favorite player is asuna. ive opened his tracker twice and both times ive only seen the stats and moved on. i don't think "hey let's open this game and see who he's playing with". it's fucking weird.
even if i did open a game i would at most see who he's playing with 1 game then move on. i wouldn't even notice if it's someone he regularly plays with.

ok. that's you. it's normal to open more than 1 game. it's normal to open every game. maybe someone just wants to see what kind of lobbies something is playing in. maybe someone wants to see if he was oping on waylay or yoru or whatever. there are a multitude of reasons behind checking multiple games on someone's tracker that are more likely than "i want to see if he was queueing with his bad duo".

more likely than not someone just went through a few games and noticed that this pibbie guy or whatever was dropping <10 kills every game and came to the conclusion that something was boosting them. what they do with that information is up to them but the act of discovering this information is not inherently parasocial like you're making it out to be.

i myself have dug through trackers of multiple people before just because i like looking at data and statistics (i even used this knowledge on a personal data analysis and player performance project). i don't think it's parasocial.

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Acethyr

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it is pointless because i'm not referencing it whatsoever. i've literally made it very clear that my whole point is only about stalking a player's tracker. something's actions are not relevant to my point whatsoever, what are you talking about.

it is not though. what do you mean "what kind of lobbies something is playing in"? he's radiant he's playing in radiant lobbies. sometimes he'll have pro players in his games. sick. like what? you wouldn't do this for some random player would you? this is just parasocial shit.

i'm making it out to be parasocial because no normal person goes through someone's tracker like that. looking at stats, what agents theyre playing etc is one thing, going through the games to see who someone's playing with is weird and frankly none of your business.

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sawrice

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Not worth it brother. Maybe they are fortunate enough to spend their fleeting moments of time stalking somebody else’s profile instead of locking in and just playing yourself. We arent as fortunate to have such an abundance of time to waste

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Acethyr

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yeah im just giving up on this person. jfc ts is hopeless

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Can we also talk about how people are surprised this guy would rather play with his gf(assuming it's her) than respect valorant "integrity" (as if the game even has that) . If i was her I'd be pissed if my partner said "I'm respecting valorant guidelines" over playing with me, like wtf guys please lock in😭

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you clearly have misunderstood or misread what i've been trying to say for the entirety of this discussion and despite me trying various ways of explaining it to you, you're still not seeing my point. so i'm gonna leave it here after this.

it is not though. what do you mean "what kind of lobbies something is playing in"? he's radiant he's playing in radiant lobbies. sometimes he'll have pro players in his games. sick. like what? you wouldn't do this for some random player would you? this is just parasocial shit.

there's more to it than that. i peaked rad and have played in rad lobbies with pro players before. it's not uncommon for people who want to get better at the game at any level to look through a pro player's tracker to see how they play in their lobbies/what they do in their lobbies/just because looking at stats or data is fun.

i am friends with multiple people pursuing pro in esports from player to coach and i look at high elo trackers to talk about potentially good players or talking about current pro players.

you evidently have never seen any reason to dig through trackers beyond looking at the summary of stats but i can assure you there is nothing abnormal about looking through someone's games on tracker. after all, the games are literally there, easily accessible for anyone curious. it's not like you need to expend significant effort to look at it.
and yes, i have done it for random players before. people i meet in my ranked games (is this guy cheating or having a good day? is this guy who carried me always this good? should i ask to duo with them?)

i'm making it out to be parasocial because no normal person goes through someone's tracker like that. looking at stats, what agents theyre playing etc is one thing, going through the games to see who someone's playing with is weird and frankly none of your business.

one of the first things tracker shows you when you click on someone's game is who they're queueing with.

once again, it does not take any noticeable effort to notice what is going on here and that means it's very likely not parasocial nor abnormal.

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penpen

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but if he cared he would private his account? you can do that yk. clearly doesnt matter whatsoever to him lmao

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I read 'something's duo looks like boostio'
eyesight is a fkin problem

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I mean close enough yea

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riot themselves have basically made boosting/smurfing ok in val by not doing anything to stop the insane amount of how i used "new agent" to stomp silver-plat players so i can unlock them in my own rank because its educational see how i one tap plat players for 10 eps and act like ts hard or sumn

this is the less bad outcome since something isn't smurfing technically cause "pro player" isn't a rank and this is MUCH better then pro player buys low elo account and actually smurfs the only way for something to be not considered a smurf is to bring her to scrims and i don't think we want that

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my question is how tf you find out about this in the first place and why

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Acethyr

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this is what im sayin bro. fuckin weird behavior to be lookin for this shit

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Yuniee44

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You just sacrificed like half an acre of the amazon rainforest to translate a parasocial essay about who a random valorant pro is playing ranked with

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Wow you exposed him!! Now will just buy two new accounts with chinese names to play with his girlfriend lol

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It is not that deep friend.

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is it somethings main account? just duoing with a player thats worse than him is not an issue in anyway, if hes intentionally smurfing to play with her thats a little different but still something 95% of content creators do anyway, if he was actually involved in account sharing and boosting her to get to immo1 in the first place thats a little worse, but honestly still not that big of a deal, and thats all assuming it was intentional, it could genuinely be that the person hes playing with is not sweating most games not super locked in to win, and in the 5 stack all the people involved had talked and said hey lock in and play super serious, combine that with playing a different role to fill in a 5 stack (which alot of ppl do) it could actually be a completely normal situation, or hell maybe the 5 stack was specifically designed to speed them to immo1 but it was still the original player playing on the account just playing way more seriously than normal so they can play with something, basically theres a bunch of reasonable explanations for this and even if you take it to worse case scenario its like, kinda a shitty thing to do but also something literally the entire community does anyway so who gaf?

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acels

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L something

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tonyhart

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"Is it really okay for a professional player like something to duo with someone who was likely boosted to Immortal 1, stomp low-MMR lobbies, and effectively boost his girlfriend in ranked?"

I can assure you that 90+% pro player literally use alt account, smurfing etc to play with their friend

by that logic all these pros is boosting their own friend account

I know its a big deal in korea because sk politician would get flamed if they doing this but the rest of the world ????? nah

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eStos

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smurfs in general are bad for the game

if a pro player is doing that it's even worse. this doesn't mean he's a bad person, but doing this is unethical. it's like having LeBron James play for your high school team until they reach the finals

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unfertile

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well no because that would be a tournament with actual things at stakes, this is just ranked, it would be more like lebron james participating in a random street basketball game no one gives af about somewhere in connecticut

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sorry, I wasn't talking about d1 basketball, idk if this makes my comparison more accurate for you

also you could care about ranked, imagine grinding the game cuz you wanna go pro and something just deletes you from existence

but I get what ur saying

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if you're playing 5 stacks with diamonds and ascendants you're not going pro anytime soon

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eStos

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cmon brodie doodie

ascendant is not that far away tbh

anyway, if you're like, 14 years old you still have time to develop so why not try to go pro

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if you're trying to go pro it would probably help you more to get stomped by something over and over and over again until you learn than to win against ascendants that don't even know what key to press to use their microphone

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great point

but do you agree smurfing is bad?

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unfertile

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yeah in general it's bad 100%, just me personally I don't care that much if someone is smurfing on the enemy team (maybe because in my elo it doesn't really matter)

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bigger nothingburger than zellsis patitek chronicle profek and canezerra combined

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a man can't boost his wife anymore?

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watch this be covered by tacticalrab