Arena dirty players

[Antitodo]

Hello everyone, I'm starting this thread to see how to report a player (or two if they're two different people) because I've noticed some very strange gameplay from these players. I once played against a player and gave him a red thumbs-down the moment we met. Now I realize these two players were in my game—quite a coincidence, right? I won't name names, but it doesn't take much to figure out who I'm talking about. Draw your own conclusions. I recommend you all give them a red thumbs-down (since you might not be able to report this) so they don't ruin your games. It's incredibly frustrating when that happens, especially if it's on purpose... Fair play, everyone! Cheers!

[slav4ella]

I'm starting this thread to see how to report a player (or two if they're two different people) because I've noticed some very strange gameplay from these players.

When you report a group of players you suspect of cheating, the main page to focus on is the one where you must explain why you believe these accounts belong to the same person and therefore violate the community rules. This is where you list the key indicators.

The strongest indicator is that they play together at the exact same time. It’s not realistic for two accounts to consistently queue into games together at the same hours across different days unless they’re coordinating closely (and if they claim it’s “just coincidence,” that excuse dies fast once the pattern is long enough).

Second, these accounts usually show a heavy win-rate imbalance in favor of one of them. In most of their shared games, one account repeatedly “feeds” the other: the weaker one loses the majority of matches against the main account. Some games still count as wins when they’re on the same team, but whenever they end up on opposite teams, the results overwhelmingly favor the same account.

Some players don’t even bother being subtle and will play two-player games purely to boost the reputation/rating of a “helper” account. That helper account is clearly losing reputation because it is periodically forced to abandon games when the main account is about to lose. By sacrificing the helper, they protect the main account’s rating.

Another clear marker is abandoned games from the secondary account. If you check the replay, it’s often obvious the abandon happens precisely at the moment when the main account is about to lose (or when the helper can no longer manipulate the outcome).

You can also point to specific replay moments: in certain games, the player openly played against their own team so that the other account on the opposing team would win. Most commonly this happens on the Outlaws’ side, where the helper account actively sabotages fellow Outlaws.

Some don’t try to hide it at all: a brand-new account hits 100 Elo and immediately starts playing Arena against the main account. Its match history ends up dominated by games with that one account, with a big skew in the main account’s favor.

Others try to cover their tracks by deleting helper accounts and creating new ones. In that case, the “marker” becomes the pattern of fresh accounts: they appear, play a handful of Arena games with the same main account, then get deleted. But even deleted accounts still have accessible game history tabs, and the pattern remains obvious there too.