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Boosting and smurfing in ranked needs to be stopped

Jefftiffy·5/26/2019, 12:50:36 AM·3 votes·957 views

Legit just ran into the ultimate duo today in silver. A Kindred with a 90% win rate in silver 3. Fizz who legit let himself get aa'd to death and walked into every skill shot being boosted by Kindred duo'd.

Kindred was probably a plat-diamond level player. Fizz was the worst mid laner I have ever seen and the fact that neither gets punished for it is the biggest joke because I have to deal with some dick who is probably being paid to boost this man who probably doesn't even deserve to be silver because it takes a special kind of stupid to walk into everything and get basically farmed the whole game. Kindred on the other hand only focused me because I had the highest recent win rate on my team and the entire enemy team only went for me because she was targeting me as a booster she knew that as long as I was dead her team would probably win because I was the only one winning lane. How can I tell? At level 7 bot lane and jungle all came to mid lane and blew every ult to kill me while I was sitting under tower.

Unless smurfing and boosting is dealt with the ranked experience in low to mid elo will always be a joke. I don't care if Fizz winds up somewhere he shouldn't be then decays back down. My game was ruined by the experience and I don't even have a way to get compensation or some kind of retribution because the rules allow this to happen.

How to stop it: force 2 factor authentication on ranked. Then they have a cost to actually getting banned and making multiple accounts and allows you to ban them. I'm fine with alternates that people climb with, but boosting and smurfing is really toxic.

7 Comments

FOR JUSTICE5/26/2019, 1:22:58 AM2 votes

firstly there are legitimate reasons to have a smurf account barring you purposefully keeping it in the same elo.

secondly the kindred isnt a smurf and isnt anywhere near an 80% winrate. she has a 53% winrate.

thirdly, friends exist. him being carried by a friend he's duoing with =/= being boosted, especially because both of them are literally the same elo. at the very absolute most if you want to call this a smurf, kindred is no higher then gold.

Crispy0Snake5/26/2019, 1:35:17 AM1 votes

I have 3 accounts, my main problem is that sometimes I want to play a normal game and be chill, but then in the normal game there will be random dia and plat players, so I go on a smurf to have that chill normal game experience...

I think if my smurfs stay in their ranks naturally I'm not having any negative impact on the game. If I smurf and stomp games then I'd feel bad

Anchobi5/26/2019, 4:37:21 AM1 votes

Kindred on the other hand only focused me because I had the highest recent win rate on my team

When you think you are the best player in the team and jungler camps you because he is scared of you but its just bad wave management :o