Smurfs ruining gameplay for lower elos

Heroless·Jul 14, 2016·4 votes·592 views

So in one of my games before I reached my promos to Silver 4 I had an encounter with a Riven as soon as the game started he got first blood on my top laner which then he roamed and killed me due to a mistake which I learned from never approach a fed riven alone as a squishy . So time went by and one after another my teammates died to this Riven I figured quickly after watching this person play he was a smurf, they won the game due to him because their team was feeding but he got then out of that losing hole. The problem I have I have with this is why doesnt he play at his own elo? Yes, hes very good and should go against people with his own skill not people still trying to learn things and climb elo. Anyone have thoughts on this to agree or disagree?

8 Comments

HerolessJul 14, 20162 votes

I forgot to mention at the end of the game he linked his twitch.tv and he was infact a smurf with the title of "smurfing in lower elos"

CerealBoxOfDoomJul 14, 20162 votes

I played against a diamond smurf once.

I had fun...

TakazakiJul 14, 20162 votes

this is sad

this post boils down to

my opponent was better then me and thats not fair.

Immortal FenixJul 14, 20162 votes

{quoted}

this is sad

this post boils down to

my opponent was better then me and thats not fair.

This post boils down to 'My opponent was -clearly- a much higher rank than I am with much better ELO, creating a new low-level account to ruin people's games who are lower-level and lower-ELO than they are on their main account.'

Wolfram OxfordJul 14, 20161 votes

This should give you hope. Maybe you can become good enough to carry your own team someday.

Left Hook LarryJul 14, 20161 votes

You said it yourself, you learned something from that game

Smurfs are too hard to punish. You have no way of proving who's a smurf and who isn't. And it's not worth their time either. You're not going to stay in silver because of smurfs, trust me. Instead of focusing on them why not focus on the other games?

HerolessJul 14, 20161 votes

Yes I know I'm not going to stay in Silver because of unfortunate encounters with higher elo smurfs, I'm not having trouble climbing out of Silver elo I made into my promos in 7 games it's just they ruin game play for me because I know I'm not a diamond player but I'm hoping to get there one day one game at a time but for someone whose already in those higher elos come to low elos just to have fun killing them and winning is not fair to me.

Left Hook LarryJul 15, 20161 votes

Yeah it can be annoying sometimes but it's better to ignore this one game. Sometimes you will get free wins because the smurf is on your team as well. These games rarely happen though