The New Player Experience: All I See is Smurfs

Hyrum Graff·Nov 2, 2015·3 votes·737 views

And that's exactly how it should be. Because I am a smurf, So when I won every game until lvl 6, my MMR skyrocketed, and the only people who have MMR that high are smurfs.

I don't think that the new player experience is good, but I do think that when we see these Boards posts complaining about how it's terrible because of smurfs, we need to consider just who is experiencing a lot of smurfs.

######As an amusing side note, games on my smurf, lvl 12, are possibly more intense than on my main. More variable, but also more tryhard.

6 Comments

Baby GhoulNov 2, 20153 votes

No I've gotten several friends into League, and watched them play, not play with them. They ran into a considerable amount of smurfs. Granted a lot of them were like, "I'm a silver 5 smurf scrub!", so they weren't Diamond smurfs or anything, but a Silver 5 player playing with people who are just starting out is going to make a considerable impact on the game. They are generally so rude too on top of sucking all the fun and learning experience out of the match.

I think champion and rune costs are a bigger deal, but smurfs are definitely part of the problem.

Hyrum GraffNov 2, 20152 votes

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No I've gotten several friends into League, and watched them play, not play with them. They ran into a considerable amount of smurfs. Granted a lot of them were like, "I'm a silver 5 smurf scrub!", so they weren't Diamond smurfs or anything, but a Silver 5 player playing with people who are just starting out is going to make a considerable impact on the game. They are generally so rude too on top of sucking all the fun and learning experience out of the match.

I think champion and rune costs are a bigger deal, but smurfs are definitely part of the problem.

Yeah. My smurf is so I can have a "champ X only" account. I wish I didn't have to do the leveling process.

I felt pretty bad at first, so I only played super mechanically intensive champs that I suck at (eg, draven) and didn't really try. But then there was a game where my own team was annoyed that I wasn't really trying, and I was like, "meh, can't win". Now that I'm facing mostly smurfs, I feel significantly less bad :)

Archon XNov 2, 20152 votes

Sion is not a support, that's kind of an important concept to learn before you claim to be a smurf.

Hyrum GraffNov 2, 20151 votes

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Sion is not a support, that's kind of an important concept to learn before you claim to be a smurf.

Playing off-meta stuff has nothing to do with smurfing.
Spoken like someone who's never played Sion support. As someone who has Sion as his 2nd most played champ recently, I think he's strongest jungle and support. He's also pretty good as a red side top, if you can do the lvl 1 execute on the enemy's blue buff.

Finn Teh HumanNov 2, 20151 votes

When I first started League I don't think it was fair that I not only had to play with people who have been playing for 1 year +, but also got harassed by them and my teammates for not knowing what in the hell I was doing. I think Riot should make it so people can have free level 30 accounts but not smurfs. I mean c'mon if you're that bad on your main account to not play with your own elo then that's just sad. I almost quit because people harassed me so much. Even my brothers friends harassed me (he's the one who showed me League). It's hilarious how now I'm a much higher rank then them.

LuggNov 2, 20151 votes

Yeah, I love trying to win a ranked game when the other team has a Diamond smurf top or bot that goes 40/2 and no matter how great I play I can't win that game.