Should smurfing be banned?

TheGrandTrinket·Dec 21, 2015·3 votes·487 views

I'm trying to get out of bronze with my really low elo account, I know a lot of people use smurf accounts to get an advantage over lower elo players making it much harder for them to go up.

Here's why I think smurf accounts should be banned:

The elo does not represent the player's true ability
reduces the chances of players to get out of bronze
usually they get a troll pick, i.e. adc trynd with smite pissing off their entire team, losing the focus from the game
if theres a smurf on the enemy team, it makes it really hard to defeat them no matter what

I know a lot of you might disagree, but it really is unfair to lower elo players.

I hope riot can do something about this, since its been bothering me for a while.

11 Comments

VictoryDance96Dec 21, 20152 votes

In an idealistic society... yes.

My Sea CowDec 21, 20152 votes

So you're preventing those with high ranks to create a second account? While I do agree it's annoying, it's not fair to prevent someone from having another account and want to rank on it.

I do fully believe that if your stuck in bronze or sliver or whatever it's because you belong there. Not because of smurfs or trolls but because of your actions and choices in the game.

TheGrandTrinketDec 21, 20151 votes

I think it is fair to prevent someone from having another account when someone from the other team is carrying when he is obviously not bronze. I think I should be matched with someone with the same ability as me, not some gold player whos obviously gonna carry the entire team and we wont be able to do anything about it.

baby reksaiDec 21, 20153 votes

Low elo talk. I play against plats and golds and i dont complain. Shoot my mentality is i can hang with the big dawgs lets do this. Dont cower behind rankings and let it cloud your mind from being competitive. Competition isnt fair. And honestly playing against smurfs keeps my on my toes. Makes me play smarter. I make better decisions. Even though my mechanics arent up to par, my game knowledge takes leaps playing against smurfs.

KorilloDec 21, 20151 votes

Smurfs aren't the reason you can't climb. Besides, if the smurfs don't belong there they will just climb out of bronze themselves.

baby reksaiDec 21, 20151 votes

Bro legit. If someone smurfs and is good theyre definitely not in bronze. If anything theyll end up placed in silver after first placements. If you smurf and youre in bronze, then youre just trolling. Not smurfing.

RalanrDec 21, 20151 votes

You're only looking at the negative side of smurfing (which to be fair, the negative side of things always gets blown out of proportion). I have a smurf account (not this one, still haven't maxed it and probably won't) because me and my friends leveled from 1-30 in bots and thus learned shit about PVP. Some of us adapted to it, others needed to go through it again and we all liked playing together. Since I'd rather not have a level 10 vs level 30's, I'd make a smurf account to play with them.

Dominick DestineDec 21, 20151 votes

If you ban people for smurfing, you'd basically force them to smurf more...

Terrible plan.

SasogwaDec 21, 20151 votes

Well, smurfs don't last long, they climb extremely fast; which is somewhat a proof of matchmaking working well (they climb to the elo they belong since they're better)