Challenger/Diamond Smurfs
So I've asked many of the enemy challenger/diamond smurfs as to why they insist on bullying the legitimate mid to low elo players struggling to climb.
Some answers:
- The queue time in diamond/challenger is 30minutes+ at times and it's not worth waiting.
- To help boost a struggling mid to low elo friend.
- Because roflstomping baddies is funny.
- "Git gud baddie stop complaining and deal with it"
- People pay me to boost them.
- Streaming a "Bronze to Challenger marathon"
- Main got permabanned so now I have to play from a fresh 30.
- Purposely deranking increase a winrate of a certain champion above 90%
That being said, what can we mid to low elo players do to fight against these smurfs? It almost feels like the only way to combat against a challenger smurf is to ALSO be a challenger. Otherwise your work and effort gets buried under their superiority and better-quality work every single game.
It used to be a small number of players smurfing, but now it feels like every 2nd or 3rd game will have a minimum of 1 high plat/diamond/challenger boosting.
I just feel like the game isn't allowing players to climb because of 'their own work'. It just feels like either I'm going to get carried by a challenger smurf or get completely destroyed by one on enemy team. There honestly has to be another solution to combat these guys.
I get that the portion of plat/diamond/challengers isn't as huge compared to that of gold/silver/bronze, but as of right now the games have been 1-sided. Either it's our team completely dominates or the enemy team completely dominates. Maybe 1 out of 20-30 games will there be an actual even skilled matchup on both sides.
I know I'm not offering a solution, but I'm asking for one.
