Complain that ranked is unfair but are completely willing to screw up normal games by bringing in a smurf as a premade buddy. Putting people who are still trying to enjoy a fair and honest game completely off. Does nobody else see the hypocrisy in that? The "they are my friends" excuse just doesn't fly.
Kazamaru2 votesSo while I don't complain about ranked being unfair, I can understand the complaints of those who do hold that it is indeed unfair.
With regard to normals, that is the place to play with friends and family. Ranked is a competitive format, so boosting a friend is not appropriate.
However, playing together in normals is a good healthy way of having fun playing with peoples.(Also, of course, flex queue is great for those more competitively minded groups.)
So there is no hypocrisy for indeed the difference itself is in the formats themselves.
I am sad to hear that your fun is being compromised in normals by smurfs though.
FederationFurry1 votesIf you give people the option to have an unfair advantage... they will... human nature.
5050BS1 votesSmurfs are toxic to the game. Riot only allows them because They only care about $$ and not the game itself.
FederationFurry1 votesYup and it drives people away, most of my friends have already left this game because people abuse smurfs so much
Kazamaru1 votesSmurfs are toxic to the game. Riot only allows them because They only care about $$ and not the game itself.
How can Riot legitimately prevent smurfs? It's free to make an account. So, yes they can try to endlessly ban accounts with the same IP address.(Killing players who happen to live in the same place as others.) I'm sure Riot would also love to prevent certain players that have had over 5 accounts permabanned to just not be able to make an account for 5 years, but their setup just doesn't allow for that to happen.
So while I do think Riot should add algorithms to ensure smurfs play with smurfs(or against bots) getting rid of smurfs is impossible.
FederationFurry1 votesIP ban people... probably solved
Kazamaru2 votesIP ban people... probably solved
Whelp, I guess my wife and I both get insta-permabanned. And all households that have multiple people playing get destroyed. This seems like a really bad solution.
FederationFurry1 votesYour problem, not anyone elses... don't be toxic then