>>48827989I agree, but not because “you can reach the top of the ladder with 10 games”.
Smurfing is outright encouraged on Showdown and Showdown won’t adjust their elo gains and loses based on how lucky/unlucky you were. You’ll get the same elo regardless of if you miss Focus Blast 8 times in a row or you get 20 random crits in a row. If you manage to win the former, you should definitely get more Elo than if you won with the latter, and swapped with losing Elo.
If Smogon didn’t encourage Smurfing and had a modifier that applied a multiplier bonus to Elo based on hax that happen with the game, it would be a lot better.
