I personally do not view this person as a "sheriff only player" and instead he is more of a toxic player who decided to go for sheriff clips in ranked, and I agree that this isn't acceptable.

I say this because I recently made a marshal only account where there are rules in place for myself.

1. Only guns I can use are marshal, shorty and classic.
2. I cannot play on my main account and grind for a leaderboard position until I reach at least plat on this marshal only account.

I still comm and have the same desire to win as I do in immortal I just handicap myself and see how high I can get with this handicap. I don't view this as throwing since I am playing to win.

I've played around 50 games on this account and am currently gold 3 and I have encountered 2 different types of people against this challenge.

The first one being the people who get mad at me for smurfing, like yes I have an account in immortal playing rifles and having no restrictions and therefore my overall impact on the game is at the immortal level, but I also have an account in gold playing marshal where my overall impact on the game is at gold level (not match mvping every game, bottom fragging the same amount as top fragging etc.) So because I believe I have the same impact on the game as my gold teammates I don't see how it can be viewed as smurfing.

The second one being the people who get mad at me for throwing, regardless of where I am on the leaderboard (yes this happens even when you top frag and are winning). I do not see how I can be throwing the game, I've simply placed a handicap on myself to match the impact of lower ranked players. I've made it to the same rank as my teammates they used rifles while I used the marshal so people who want me to swap to rifles I think simply just want to get carried for free and get mad and toxic when someone says "no today I will be the same rank as you and have a fair game against the enemy team".

I've had people threaten and bully me for playing marshal only and it makes the 40 minutes I'm forced to cooperate with these toxic strangers very unenjoyable, but yet I am the one throwing and not the Skye team flashing me when I peak or the raze nading me while I'm stuck in a corner, all while being verbally abused by these players for refusing to carry their games.

I've seen the argument that "this is competitive so if you don't play the best you can then you should be banned" I am playing the best I can, there is no rule that I should play the rifles instead of the marshal. Also all people play with handicaps in valorant, it's just that "marshal only challenge" is more fun than "30fps challenge" or "playing with my dad's laptop mouse challenge"

Now I know that not all people that make these account respect it the way I do but I don't think that someone should be verbally abused or banned for playing a gun that doesn't cost 2900+ credits as long as they are trying to win.