The smurf/boosting is out of control.

Played a game where I was against a jungler who got 20+ kills, most solo.

In a plat 3 level game.

He was "gold 3" with a 80% win rate. No last season history.

One of his premades, a "platinum" player, was s5 gold and s4 silver, but this season mysteriously has 60%+ win rates in plat. All of his recent ranked games of course had both of them together.

Luckily, a single fed player cannot carry the game if the team is too heavy and the enemy team has cohesion, doesn't mentally ff and keeps crushing other lanes. We still won because we kept crushing the partners. But we almost lost. It was by a hair that we won.

I've never noticed smurfing become such a problem until this season. Literally every other game I see in lower levels, there's a smurf who is obviously not silver/gold and is crushing. In plat, maybe every 5 games, there's a smurf.

These ruin game quality, and the types they boost also ruin game quality. It becomes a race of whether the smurf gets fed enough to demoralize your team, or whether you can crush their premade before he gets fed enough and make them too heavy to carry.