Smurfing

Harrowïng·Jun 12, 2018·2 votes·948 views

Why is this still a thing Riot????? How do you expect anyone to try and climb if you have high level players constantly plaguing the lower rank ladders? They either ROFLstomp the game by themselves, and when they can't they instead feed their face off just to troll. Smurfing players just remove anything fun or competitve about the game. Could we try to implement the same rules for solo queue as you have tried to put in for Clash? It's no wonder you guys are losing more and more players.

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FOR JUSTICEJun 12, 20182 votes

encountering a smurf happens a lot less often then you actually perceive It to. plus because of how matchmaking works they get to their actual rank within <50 games. also this has nothing to do with losing players tbh, most leave because they don't like either toxicity or being 100-0 too often.

5050BSJun 12, 20181 votes

So Riot thinks Im a smurf because I see them about every other game.

HarrowïngJun 12, 20181 votes

9/10 Silver games have a damn smurf in it. It's like 98% of all league players are diamond level and the last 2% just have to suffer

Sona PingJun 12, 20181 votes

[{quoted}](name=Akashic Torment,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=Kybe7gfF,comment-id=,timestamp=2018-06-12T04:49:59.928+0000)

Why is this still a thing Riot????? How do you expect anyone to try and climb if you have high level players constantly plaguing the lower rank ladders? They either ROFLstomp the game by themselves, and when they can't they instead feed their face off just to troll. Smurfing players just remove anything fun or competitve about the game. Could we try to implement the same rules for solo queue as you have tried to put in for Clash? It's no wonder you guys are losing more and more players.

[{quoted}](name=Akashic Torment,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=Kybe7gfF,comment-id=000000000000,timestamp=2018-06-12T06:11:40.957+0000)

9/10 Silver games have a damn smurf in it. It's like 98% of all league players are diamond level and the last 2% just have to suffer

Oh gee, I wonder why all the complaints about smurfing are coming from Silver players? What bizarre and unknown reason could cause this readily apparent rampant, destructive smurfing problem to only be noticed and astutely identified by a disproportionate amount of Silver players?

hmm... this is truly an inscrutable mystery.

SirLucseanJun 12, 20181 votes

[{quoted}](name=Sona Ping,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=Kybe7gfF,comment-id=0001,timestamp=2018-06-12T07:25:11.929+0000)

Oh gee, I wonder why all the complaints about smurfing are coming from Silver players? What bizarre and unknown reason could cause this readily apparent rampant, destructive smurfing problem to only be noticed and astutely identified by a disproportionate amount of Silver players?

hmm... this is truly an inscrutable mystery.

Lets see how smurfs become smurfs.

Behind the computers are kids, Ages may vary!
Riot Perm banned each account for behaviors/ elo boosters
These kids behind the computers cant accept being banned.
New accounts created by same players who got their last account perm banned.
The Cycle will repeat itself.
Playesr keeps wasting time and money against Riot own will. 7 Riot makes Easy money from children whom dont wanna learn.

Sona PingJun 12, 20181 votes

Oh, no. He's not talking about mouthy kids making multiple accounts and calling them "smurfs". He is joining into the continuing conversation and specifically talking about smurfs as in "high level players".

SirLucseanJun 12, 20181 votes

[{quoted}](name=Sona Ping,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=Kybe7gfF,comment-id=000100000000,timestamp=2018-06-12T08:00:52.958+0000)

Oh, no. He's not talking about mouthy kids making multiple accounts and calling them "smurfs". He is joining into the continuing conversation and specifically talking about smurfs as in "high level players".

There's so many high level players who are consider bored @ their elo so yea they smurf a lot.

HarrowïngJun 13, 20181 votes

Majority of the smurfs i encounter are high level players who got banned and in return, made a smurf account. I just don't see the logic behind it. If you are playing ranked to be good at the game then what does picking on lower ranked players still learning going to teach you? Absolutely nothing. And what does making a new account get you when your old one gets banned? Starting back from square 1 and dumping more money into the game for that then to get banned? It doesn't make any sense. But maybe that's just me. I play the game to enjoy the spirit of fair competition. Which sometimes, i manage to find on a rare occasion. But a majority of the other games are just players who got banned because of their repeated attitude, so they go pick on lower ranked players.

Sona PingJun 13, 20181 votes

[{quoted}](name=Akashic Torment,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=Kybe7gfF,comment-id=0001000000000001,timestamp=2018-06-13T07:55:54.082+0000)

Majority of the smurfs i encounter are high level players who got banned and in return, made a smurf account. I just don't see the logic behind it. If you are playing ranked to be good at the game then what does picking on lower ranked players still learning going to teach you? Absolutely nothing. And what does making a new account get you when your old one gets banned? Starting back from square 1 and dumping more money into the game for that then to get banned? It doesn't make any sense. But maybe that's just me. I play the game to enjoy the spirit of fair competition. Which sometimes, i manage to find on a rare occasion. But a majority of the other games are just players who got banned because of their repeated attitude, so they go pick on lower ranked players.

"Majority of the smurfs i encounter are high level players who got banned and in return, made a smurf account." ...For examples?