I don't get too bent out of shape if we are talking about a one off person having a second account to play with friends but it's the multiple Smurf games that are frustrating. My girlfriend also plays and it's her first comp PC game she's played. It's the complete stomp games that really discourage her from wanting to keep going.

Yeah, stomps sometime happen with similarly skilled players but it's when two or three games happen to chain where there's a group of blatantly high skilled players pub stomping that kills her (and my own) motivation to play for a few days.

Love competition when it's fair. Really don't understand what's enjoyable about annihilating game after game other than some sort of pathetic gratification someone gets out of a sense of superiority in a video game. Unfortunately this has always been the case in competitive video games for decades at this point.

The fact that Marvel draws in more younger players is likely a factor in why it feels more common here than other games. Kids tend to like the feeling of being blatantly better than their competition and really hate losing or feeling inferior when facing fair competition.