Overwatch 2's lead meta designer, Scott Mercer, and senior software engineer, Morgan Maddren, have openly discussed the difficulty of fair matchmaking and have asked players not to smurf.

In a recent Twitch stream where the team discussed the release of its One Punch Man collaboration event, Mercer and Maddren spoke about how smurfing in Overwatch 2 is one of the hardest problems for the team to tackle (via PCGamer) with Maddren saying, "To be clear: please don't do that."

"The situation we don't want is like, 'Hi, I'm a new player to Overwatch,' and we totally misevaluate your skill and you lose a bunch of games because we think you're way better than you are," Mercer said.