Xquirtle
Smash Journeyman
Curious as to what you guys experience on your low GSP alts while playing online. I'm talking like alts in the dumpster, below 500k, while you have mains at or near elite. I've been grinding a low GSP character lately just to get better at it, and it raises a lot of questions as to wtf is going on.
My experience
-Rarely get items or weird rule sets even at low gsp
-No noticeable difference in connection quality on average
-Occasionally get potato players but not any more often than other rankings
-Opponents don't feel any different than running games on my mains
-Barely gained any ranking for beating players over 3 mil in comparison to beating another low ranked player
In summary, when I play low GSP alts, I can barely tell the difference between playing at any GSP up until elite smash. Opponents seem to be quite competent. For example, I got parried 6 times in one round last night, and not like accidental parries. These were parries into punish from a 150k gsp Lucina... I would not think any thing of it if i ran into the same player at 3.4 mil.
My theory
-Players with higher GSP mains are somehow segregated even when playing low GSP characters. In other words, the game prefers to match me into players of similar skill also doing badly on their alts
-The above causes a downward vacuum when you play alts that you are bad at. Like rather than dropping and stabilizing, the match making will keep your win rate below 50% until you directly improve (as opposed to down ranking and going 50% against worse players)
What have you guys seen on your low GSP characters?
My experience
-Rarely get items or weird rule sets even at low gsp
-No noticeable difference in connection quality on average
-Occasionally get potato players but not any more often than other rankings
-Opponents don't feel any different than running games on my mains
-Barely gained any ranking for beating players over 3 mil in comparison to beating another low ranked player
In summary, when I play low GSP alts, I can barely tell the difference between playing at any GSP up until elite smash. Opponents seem to be quite competent. For example, I got parried 6 times in one round last night, and not like accidental parries. These were parries into punish from a 150k gsp Lucina... I would not think any thing of it if i ran into the same player at 3.4 mil.
My theory
-Players with higher GSP mains are somehow segregated even when playing low GSP characters. In other words, the game prefers to match me into players of similar skill also doing badly on their alts
-The above causes a downward vacuum when you play alts that you are bad at. Like rather than dropping and stabilizing, the match making will keep your win rate below 50% until you directly improve (as opposed to down ranking and going 50% against worse players)
What have you guys seen on your low GSP characters?