Am I the only one that thinks playing at low level is torture, even for smurfs?

Penns·Dec 31, 2015·19 votes·7,670 views

Games are basically just decided by what team has more smurfs, most of the time its just overfed smurfs trying to carry the 1 or 2 people that have no idea how the game works yet after abusing the same people on the enemy team in lane (there are literally just as many smurfs in low level games as there are thunderlords in ranked, but thats a different story lol).
New players are often pretty "toxic" and will always find a reason to flame and blame you (or someone else) for their mistakes, which isnt really fun either.
Free week champs being spammed can get really annoying at times, especially when they are as anti-fun as Volibear or Trundle like right now.
Thunderlords Decree pretty much guarantees a won lane if the other laner doesnt have it.

And 5) Riven smurfs... do I need to say more?

22 Comments

MunchCrunchLunchJan 1, 20163 votes

I just played a match. am level 30. not ranked. but I played about 1100 matches in nromal mode and i have 50% win rate or so. the enemy team. was a gold 2 sona. while our sona was a level 26. and the rest of their team was unranked. however. i checked op.gg. the unranked other team. they were level 30s. however. they played only. 30 matches. to get to level 30. somewhere around there. and had a 90% win rate overall. i mean its pretty obvious they were smurfs. we have a silver on our team and he wasn't doing well against them at all. which was stupid. they were really good. and the sona was talking shit in chat saying " why is the other sona so bad" shes gold 2 and comparing herself to a level 26 sona. like what kind of sick mind is that

RyzeReworkJan 1, 20161 votes

Ive laned against a diamond top laner in ranked teams and crushed him ranking is just a number you win some you lose some im only gold 5 I haven't tried to rank up anymle e after I hit gold many months ago but even in 1v1 m atchups people that are my rank play like their bronze

Robbit MangDec 31, 20152 votes

well i don't have a painful time smurfing because i get ultra fed and just carry the game by myself, usually dont have any trouble with other smurfs as well.

PennsDec 31, 20151 votes

I win lane most of the time, but the "get ultra fed" part is where the struggle begins lol Im not only worried about myself tho, how are new players even playing the game?

Robbit MangDec 31, 20151 votes

well. they can't.

I'll usually play ryze on my smurf and just go like 18/4 and completely flatten them resulting in 20 minutes surrenders. Usually up until like silver 4/5 i can do that. It makes me feel like kind of a jerk but i do it to blow off steam and relax when im all stressed out

BrystBeastMar 9, 20181 votes

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well i don't have a painful time smurfing because i get ultra fed and just carry the game by myself, usually dont have any trouble with other smurfs as well.

same

RedCycloneDec 31, 20152 votes

They should totally make some kind of smurf system Say you reach level 30 and have been 30 for say, 6 months

They should give you an option to have a smurf referral for that account, a random code of sorts and playing on that account will only match you with other smurfs and also give you 2 or 4 times the xp gain per game

This probably wont fix everything wrong with smurfing, but i really refuse to use one just on principle

ChargeItDownMidDec 31, 20152 votes

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UtilityPunkJan 1, 20161 votes

As a smurf, he probably gets put into queue with smurfs, players who are carried by smurfs, or players who carry at least as well as smurfs. I know I've hit smurf queue once or twice, and I know it's probably because I'm the one carried, as much as I'd love to believe I play well.

TakhuanDec 31, 20152 votes

Play with a support poppy. Miss fortune ults while poppy is on mf. I die. Poppy decides to dash MF to secure kill. I am like "wtf." You can believe I raged in all chat over noobs in silver 2 holding their skills for kills.

Prospector PeteDec 31, 20151 votes

In the early levels I'd say just do /mute all at the beginning of every single game.

PennsDec 31, 20151 votes

Thats probably best, but "toxicity" is the smallest problem down there. Of course you can just focus on your lane and on improving, but its still pretty frustrating when you get overrun by the 15/1 smurf (or new player playing Volibear :D) :s

AyRe CoNteMpTDec 31, 20151 votes

lol anti-fun volibear and trundle xD

PennsDec 31, 20151 votes

They really are lol. I hate that feeling when some tanky champ runs at me and I literally cant do anything.. :c

BluePolarizerDec 31, 20151 votes

Most smurfs in normals are just bronzies or silvers that are scared of losing. Plat+ smurfs are all in ranked gold games anyhow or in bots/ARAMs.

Mecha MaIphiteDec 31, 20151 votes

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New players are often pretty "toxic" and will always find a reason to flame and blame you (or someone else) for their mistakes, which isnt really fun either.

some of those "new players" are probably just salty people who can't win at their own elo

and you cant tell the difference because they're bad

JorenciceJan 1, 20161 votes

I played one game realized everyone try hard with riven and Kat and yasou and Lee sin etc..wetc..etc..

So I bought trundle and have yet to lose a game cuz trundle destroys almost all of the popular pub stompers

kaltenashesJan 1, 20161 votes

i created an account in my country's server

i cant play there, lots of kat tryhards (every single game), some smurf leblanc main, jax is as popular as katarina, they dont know how to his ult or e

and the worst is afkers, every single game the person who died 2.3 times before 10 min afk, the game isnt decided by the best team/tactic or something like that, its decided by the team who has less afk than the other

i hate playing there also cause my team normally gets a jungle and the enemy team doesnt have people at lvl 10, so its duo top vs a single top while the jungler barely ganks, and when he does you have no health or mana, and if the top laner isnt me they feed so much while trying to cs and go afk

just wish riot reduce the total amount of experience you need to reach lvl 30, or matches rewards more experience...its awful playing there

JedenVojakJan 1, 20161 votes

Volibear is big and fluffy, how can he possibly be unfun?

Chaos FoxJan 2, 20161 votes

volibear and trundle are not anti-fun, although if you are saying that because they are being used by smurfs then i understand. No need to shit on my two favorite junglers for ranked.

PennsJan 2, 20161 votes

:D Well Volibear kinda is with his damage and that Q instakill mid- late game as full tank, at least if you play against him every second game lol