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High Ranking Players Want To Have Fun Too

Doubtful Trap·1/21/2015, 3:17:23 PM·1 votes·958 views

Ok. So Bob is a high ranking plat player and just got a bunch of his friends to start playing League of Legends. Bob invited his friends because he wasn't having as much fun as usual and thought his friends would make it a lot better. So he plays 5 man normals with them. He's having a lot of fun, but in all chat he sees the entire enemy team complaining about losing because he is too good. So he creates an alternate account so people don't know he's a high rank.

He's still accused of being a smurf now, and more complaining comes. Bob is now confused on how he should play with his friends.. He also didn't like playing on his main account because his friends aren't good enough to play at that high of a level. So making a smurf has now allowed Bob to have a lot more fun in League. Now he's getting crap for being a smurf and playing with low levels. Why are people giving him crap? Because they don't like losing, and playing against a high skilled player. They just want to have fun and he ruined their fun. But... what about Bob? Is he having fun? Yes, he loves playing with his friends, but why should he be having fun if he is ruining the experience for others, is their experience more important than him and his friends? We can't just not allow smurfs and high rank duoing. We just need to adjust and see both sides of it.

TLDR:Bob wants to have fun, but he's too good and people think Bob should stop having fun so they can have fun.

Edit: I am gold V. I am not skilled. I am just tired of people getting crap. I just feel people aren't seeing both sides of this.

5 Comments

Long Dong Wukong1/21/2015, 4:28:45 PM3 votes

Here's how it works

The people bitching shouldn't be affecting Bob's fun.

There's the flaw in your story. If people actually bitch that you're a smurf, so the fuck what? Good, they now know what a skill difference is. And if it actually bothers you, which it shouldn't because you'll never see them again and people get salty when they lose, hit Tab and click the mute button on their name.

You aren't there to make the other team have fun, fortunately.

disregardable1/21/2015, 3:56:13 PM1 votes

Here's the thing. You already have an established, fair method to have fun. It is playing with people on your own skill level. If you don't find that fun anymore, you also have the option to go into custom bot games. The low elo players also have two choices, normal queue or custom games. When you choose to play with the low elo players in normal queue, you're reducing their possibility for fun to playing with custom bots, the non-PVP choice in a PVP game. You're taking away the possibility for low elo players to go into normal queue at all, even though you yourself maintain the ability to choose between which one to play. How is that fair?

mvargus1/21/2015, 5:22:13 PM1 votes

"Bob" needs to learn to ignore a lot of the complaints. Games like this will always have issues where a far more skilled player destroys someone. And some people forget that this is just a game so they start complaining about it not being "fair". Unfortunately games are never going to be perfectly fair.

What they need to be is fun. For you the fun is playing with friends. In my opinion that's the best part of the game and you should not give that up for anything.

Now I'm one of those "new and less skilled" players who can find myself playing you. And I'll admit there are times that its obvious I am playing someone who knows what they are doing and the game is likely to be brutal as I did again and again. When that happens I try to avoid getting negative, but instead I try to learn from the experience. That is what the people complaining about you playing in a regular game should do. And they shouldn't be claiming you are "ruining the experience". The experience is that they get to play in a 5v5 open battle arena. The fact that they discover that they are against a master swordsman when they have 2 days of training does mean it will be a short match but in real life no one dies. It's a game and the ruining is being done by them because they took the game far too seriously. HOnestly unless they are in challenger/master ELO levels these games are not going to matter once the computers are turned off.

But I will warn you that its rare to find someone who remembers that. my best recommendation is that you use your ignore function so the complaints don't reach you and concentrate on having fun with your friends. You can ignore the other teams "all chat" during a game and leave quickly after a game ends. That will eliminate most of the time the complaints have to reach you. Don't let it touch you and hopefully your friends will eventually be able to join you in higher skill games so the trolling stops.

Matthias91191/21/2015, 5:44:06 PM1 votes

In theory, if Bob plays a bunch of games with his low-level friends, the matchmaker will keep them around a 50% winrate. The problem is that unless it can find similar "1 plat player and 4 newbs" teams all the time, you get matchups where Bob either steamrolls the match, or Bob gets shut down and his team loses horribly. It has to put them up against a team of reasonably strong players to get the right winrate.

Obviously, subverting the matchmaker by creating a smurf account is more fun for Bob and his friends, at least in the short term. The matches will be heavily lopsided in their favor unless there's a similarly misranked smurf on the other team. But it makes the other team miserable, and if they win a ton of games it'll probably flag all of them as smurfs and cause problems for Bob's friends in the long run when they can't sustain that performance without him. But it's hard to make people see that, and it's next to impossible for Riot to get rid of smurf accounts in a F2P game.