If you are smufing don't expect others to be on the level of your main

Telenus·11/8/2015, 6:34:47 PM·149 votes·6,635 views

So... I played a few games on my lvl 10 smurf and I must say the toxity is higher then in SoloQ. Its already enough to write Hey I'm new can you give me a few tips? and u'll get a stfu stupid noob go and play tutorial. Now actually I played well so there was no ingame flame but imaging that as a new player ure thrown into a game of toxic smurfs is horrible. So if u ever meet a newbie pls help him and dont flame him, sadly this only happend to me once where that player took me to top with him and explained me quite alot ( explained buffs, csing, hell even powerspikes ) at this point ty man we need mor players like you.

in essence Pls be nice to newbies we all started this game once

108 Comments

SlytherinUmbreon11/8/2015, 8:52:24 PM78 votes

lol, playing the tutorial will probably make you worse at this game [zombie-brand-facepalm]

Ser Safir11/8/2015, 9:43:08 PM34 votes

"Hey guys when do we do quests like in the tutorial?"

BluePolarizer11/8/2015, 9:18:42 PM27 votes

most so called smurfs are bronze baddies or salty silvers that can't climb and blame mmr locking in.

Zair Umbras11/8/2015, 10:58:18 PM8 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV8Ft5vv2ro

bookwormpete11/8/2015, 10:56:33 PM7 votes

While I certainly agree with you that toxicity in this community is a problem, I'd counter that smurfing is also just as much of a problem. When I was level 10, I was still working out how jungling worked, and I'm sure that there are lots of players below level 20 who'd agree with me when I say that smurfs make the game a lot less fun than it should be, IMO.

SrirachaLimes11/8/2015, 11:19:01 PM5 votes

When I first played I had no concept of items and didn't know I should buy anything. I think my first game I bought only a doran's blade.

Taarki11/8/2015, 10:48:50 PM4 votes

I think that reports against players under level 15 should be weighed much higher than reports at level 30. For example, if at level 30 it takes 10 reports to get banned, at level 1-15 it should only take 2. This would help erase toxicity in the lower levels because there would be a much higher ban rate. I understand that these people don't care about their smurf accounts, but maybe if they get banned 2-3 times then they will get the point.

Palmeiras SerieB11/8/2015, 10:44:28 PM4 votes

Same happens in my country, and I think it happens in every server. I've played some Coop vs AI, only to raise this account level and I saw toxic behavior in some matches. Most of the time it was rage and trash talk against new players trying to lane "where they not supposed to" (a.k.a. I SAID MID FIRST, LEAVE HERE NOW YOU F%%%IN' RETARD! I'LL REPORT U!)

MrSexyHobo11/8/2015, 10:57:14 PM4 votes

the first time i played this game i was drunk and went like 1-40 with fiora vs bots. Right now im gold and i still get flamed like 25% of my games. i cannot even imagine what it would be like playing a game with smurfs as a new player.

icedballs11/9/2015, 12:00:44 AM4 votes

A few months ago, before I was even level 30 I was doing some unranked pvp. I was trying adc and explained to my support that I was newish to the game and had only done jungling in pvp. I understood the basic concepts from watching tons of streams as well as cooping vs bots, but didn't know pvp. His reply was "sorry I don't play support for new players" and he just left the lane and instead stole cs from the midlaner, leaving me to 1v2 the bottom lane (in essence hurting the entire team, not just me). He occasionally came to bottom lane to compete for my cs when the midlaner had out cs-ed him in that lane. This was in combination to various harassment and flaming from him to the entire team. The only good part was this unified the other 9 people against him, the enemy team knew clearly that he was ruining the game.

BastionKross11/9/2015, 5:07:38 PM3 votes

Some people have been playing LoL long enough that they forget that there are people who don't know the first thing about this game, or MOBAs in general.

When I first started, I played Annie and summoned Tibbers on a big minion wave because I thought Tibbers worked like a pet from MMOs. He showed up, helped me clear a wave, then left until I needed him 80 seconds later. This is the kind of stuff you must expect from people below level 30; a lot of them simply don't know any better. They're not in the right mindset to play League yet.

Hell, I used to rush item 3026 as my first item because I saw how often I was dying and thought that a GA would cut down on the number of times I died. It did, but I didn't even think about things like powerspikes and the negative effects of rushing resistances on DPS champions.

So if you're smurfing under level 30, you shouldn't be calling out your allies because they do things you would never do. Instead, you should be thankful that they all don't wander the jungle for ten minutes, wondering where they get the quest to kill ten wolves for the shopkeeper.

T RexHasTinyArms11/9/2015, 3:14:10 AM3 votes

Rito needs new chat feature, faster and stricter chat bans in low level games. If you're level 5 or 10 flaming/raging at teammates, maybe there is a problem w/ how you are approaching the game and you should just be quite about it instead of raging. Maybe you don't need 3/5 comments, you just need 1/0 starting in pregame lobby, so you can ask for a role or say 1 stupid thing, and then just be quiet the rest of the game and let the newbies play in peace.

Riot, we can save them if we try. Lyte smite the level 5s and give them faster chat restrictions for abusing teammates.

shabingi11/8/2015, 10:24:22 PM2 votes

How many people are really playing league for the first time these days? Its been around for 6 years and is the most popular competitive game in the world.

lolptwo11/8/2015, 11:18:58 PM2 votes

@OP The issue is that a large majority of players in low ELO are EXTREMELY toxic and do not listen. For example I was smurfing today on a Silver account, and I was very polite to my team the entire time but was met with extreme hostility and verbal abuse. This continued the whole game until I snapped on all of them and not only ended up losing the game because of them fed but got reported i'm sure. I reported them too but nothing happened

I'll give you an example.

Champ Select: I said "hey guys i'm smurfing, be open minded to my advice please i'm here to help"

their response P1: "LOL STFU NOOB YOU'RE NOT SMURF I CHECKED YOU UP YOU'RE SILVER NOOB GET FCKED"

P2: "Lol i'm feeding so carry me"

P3: "haha yeah don't lie noob you suck"

P4: "...."

In Game -

"hey jinx consider buying "x" item it might really help you"

Jinx - "STFU NOOB YOU SUCK DIC I RUSH LAST WHISPER FIRST ON JINX IM BETTER THAN YOU LOL, YOU'RE NOT A SMURF YOU DIDNT EVEN HIT YOUR Q THAT 1 TIME"

P2 - "/all chat We have pro master challenjour here watchout he's going to beat you all"

Other team: "LMFAO HE'S NOT SMURF HE SUCKS I HIT HIM WITH A Q ONE TIME HE CAN'T EVEN SIDESTEP"

P3: - "stfu noob we all know you're not a smurf you're trash, get rekt"

P4: silence

Team fight happens:

*whole team runs in and dies in enemy jg before I can even get there

Whole Team "/all chat, WTF THIS NOOB SMURF explicit explicit SUCKS report him"

Other team: " sorry about your troll noob "smurf" we will report him

*Queue me raging on everyone whilst being 7-0-7 carry a team losing 10-32

kaltenashes11/8/2015, 9:43:57 PM1 votes

nice, what is powerspikes ? i have no clue how this works