League has some serious problems now..
Hello everyone, I just felt I have a need to tell my opinion about the state of the game right now. I play since season 3.
I decided to make a new account on EUW, I am level 13 now, but that does not matter so much. What matters, and I notice these things every game is that every game I played so far(30+ games) each one of those games had 65%-80% smurfs. I dont say smurfing is bad(I smurf as well) but having so many smurfs makes the game health bad because new players cannot do anything. Not only that but for example, I made my smurf account only to try different out of meta things, full crit Darius... etc. and not to tryhard. But in every game I played so far, I honestly - lost. Not because I am so bad or something, but if I didn't had high elo smurf in my team, I instantly lose games, 50% of my games were over at 15 minutes.
When I started playing, I remember there were smurfs, but not so many. My route from level 1 - 30 had pretty balanced teams, none of us knew what to do in the game. We had a "learning curve". but now... it's an entirely different story, I honestly don't even know if there are new players.
You can attack me if you want( I know you will) but the main reason why there are so many smurfs is reporting system. Riot has permabanned too much high elo profiles. In season 3, if you were toxic, you could play but you would get 4000 games restriction and that's it. That being said, that explains why back in the day there were not so many smurf accounts. High elo players didn't get permabanned so they played on their main accounts, they did not need to smurf.
No one should ever get permabanned for anything. Chat restriction is the way to go like it used to be. Even pernament chat removal (you can use pings). If they remove permabans, and let high elo toxic players play on their main accounts. They would remove 50% or more of smurf account activity, thus making the game more balanced, fair and after all, fun for new players.
Let's try to put ourselves in new player perspective. He does the tutorial, jumps into game, a game where 9 people already play the game for 5+ years. And what then ? There is no way new players will come if they go 0-20 every game and then they get flamed for feeding, because there is obviously nothing they can do. They will probably play 5-10 games and then uninstall.
Entire system from reporting to leveling up needs to be remade! Because the situation is really really bad. I repeat: let people play! Do not permaban them, we go around in the circle. You ban gold,plat,diamond players, then they make a new account, destroy everyone on their road to level 30, and make the game unfun to everybody except themselves.
Have a great day.
