What is Riot doing about smurfs ruining games?

Zyralicious·9/18/2019, 2:44:58 PM·2 votes·1,310 views

I shouldn't have to play vs a Master Tier Evelynn OTP just to promote out of Plat IV. Hey dumbass Riot. Gold 4-1 players with 79% winrate in 27 games are not Gold, they are not Platinum, and they probably aren't even Diamond or at least they're not Diamond IV.

Put them in Diamond MMR, not Platinum MMR, or limit MMR so that everyone's rank is with 1/2 divisions of each other.

Start banning actual inters and these bots that don't ward, don't use summs before dying that these smurfs capitalize on over and over preventing players that actually belong at a certain tier (EDIT) (i.e. not boosted) to win games and climb normally.

Hard Reset ALL elo brackets. Sure it'll be mayhem for a few weeks but it's already like this....

9 Comments

DuskDaUmbreon9/18/2019, 3:21:04 PM2 votes

And what exactly are they supposed to do?

Kai Guy9/18/2019, 5:31:53 PM2 votes

preventing players that actually belong in their elo to climb properly.

Players who belong in an Elo are not expected to climb at all.

Hard Reset ALL elo brackets.

That's a soft reset then, not hard.

Look its built off a population curve and using averages in that population to adjust placement.

The issue with smurfs is the same with toxic behavior, a relatively small % still shows up at a high rate when you account for the fact you have 9 slots to distribute.

Riot needs to make clash work and have it be the competitive experience. Premade remove RNG teammates and registering accounts lowers # of smurfs. Or just make a good 5v5 que.

ExcaliburX9/18/2019, 2:54:29 PM1 votes

Only 1 division pls

HeeroTX9/18/2019, 3:07:24 PM1 votes

Answer: not a damn thing. Next question?

(The fact that streamers make "unranked to Challenger" videos ALL THE TIME, shows that they don't care about smurfing)