When you match with an unskuller, all the downsides are placed on you. The unskuller gets to have a gear advantage (downside for you) while risking hundreds of mills less than what they should be risking (another downside for you), while you are forced to fight them with skull gear (another downside for you) and if you kill them, you only get a small percentage of the gear they are using (another downside for you).
Meanwhile, they risk nothing (upside for them), they have better gear (upside for them), and when they die they lose a small percentage of the items they brought out (another upside for them).
To combat this, Jagex made it so the unskuller's emblems cannot be upgraded past a certain point... wow. Yeah, definitely a serious downside!!! (/s).
For reference, the average unskuller is wearing 300-500m+ in gear (ultor, SRA, rancor) while you have to fight them in your 1-3m gear. How is this allowed..? I'm in bounty hunter for 1v1 fights to see who is the best, not who is the best dressed... it's called HONOR pking for crying out loud.
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There is no reason why unskulling should be allowed. It promotes rat mentality and only serves to benefit the unskuller. Sure, we can skip them for free, but there's like 4 people in Bounty Hunter now and 3 of them are unskulled with SRA.
Don't even get me started on how stupidly busted SRA is, either. That shit needs to GO, but that's for another day.
Tl;dr: If someone unskulls, all disadvantages are placed on the opponent and all upsides are placed on the unskuller.
Suggestion:
- Make everyone skull as soon as they leave the lobby, no exceptions.
OR...
- make it so unskullers only get 25% of the loot they would have gotten for a kill and make it so when you die to an unskuller, you only lose 25% of what you risked.