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The original was posted on /r/starcraft by /u/HotLocation1236 on 2025-01-30 01:52:45+00:00.
I've seen a few posts on here complaining about smurfs on the ladder, which are fairly common at certain times of night and I wanted to share the way I deal with them. Basically, when you match against a known smurf or barcode (because you never can tell with them) just cheese the hell out of them with the fastest hitting cheese. If you're protoss go for a cannon rush, if you're zerg baneling bust, and if you're terran proxy 4 rax. Go wild! This has several benefits:
- you don't waste a lot of time playing them
- you get to hone your cheese skills against someone who deserves to be cheesed
- you increase their MMR rapidly making them have to waste more time insta-leaving games
- often after the third game of the same cheese they get bored and will stop insta-queuing so you get to play someone else
- you don't feel bad when you lose because you're doing a build you're probably not good at
- you are going to feel really good when you win with a nasty cheese
Go forth and cheese!