Give us a "Skilled Player" report to handle smurfs
I am bronze 2.
I'm not a smurf, nor am I a delusional bronzie who thinks he should be alongside LCS players. The reason I'm bronze 2 is simple. I'm bronze 2, because I'm bad at League of Legends.
I'm okay with that. I play this game casually, for fun.
Most of the people I regularly play with are also either legitimately bronze, or trying to level their first account up to 30. We almost always play in pre-mades. Needless to say, a bunch of real bronzies and a level 5 player who only plays Ashe and hasn't quite learned not to fight enemies under their turrets will have a really low MMR no matter where you put them. Ranked queue, unranked queue, it doesn't matter. None of us are magically better with friends then we are when we play alone.
80% of the time, My team and I get paired against comparable players. Win or lose, it's a fun game. There is back and forth, there are battles, there is a chance to win, and a chance to lose. There are throws. There are surprise wins. It's a lot of fun.
20% of the time, we get dumped into a game with smurfs. Those games are steamrolls. The enemy smurfs get one trillion kills, win every dragon, keep all their towers and we surrender out at 20. The whole time, we usually get spammed with obnoxious all chat mockery. This is not fun at all. It is a one sided stomp, being done by dickheads who are abusing the matchmaking system to ruin other people's games.
To solve the issue of rampant smurfing, I think that Riot should add a "Skilled Player" report.
A Skilled Player report would work like the Unskilled Player report, but in reverse. No action would be taken against the account (unless they were breaking some bit of the summoner's code), but it would raise the player's MMR, which would push them out of the level they're smurfing at, faster than them just winning a bunch of matches. This would reduce the number of games that a smurf can ruin by playing below their actual skill level.