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Smurfing, and Why it's a Good Thing

GroundEffect··7 votes·1,908 views
Gyazo

Alright now I'm speaking as both a person who smurfs and who has played against smurfs. At my highest rank as Master at the end of Season 4, I've played against and with LCS players. Reason I say this is that I've played against the highest level players in the game - so I know what it really is to play against a really good player.

Why do so many people say smurfing is bad? People say its bad because it's "unfair" to those low elo players. They say it isn't fair that they should have to be playing against someone so much better than them and that it's impossible to win against them. That could almost seem like a legitimate point. However, low elo players reveal why they are low elo when they say stuff like that. Most low elo players play to win. So if you at it from that perspective, you can see why low elo players hate playing against smurfs. Because they can't win against them. But that's why you are low elo! You play to win instead of playing to improve . (Disclaimer: This doesn't mean all low elo players play to win, there are those who currently play to improve and will climb throughout this season). I'm talking about the ones who are stuck in divisions and don't know why - well that's why.

League is a game about getting better - not winning. Let's take a Silver 5 playing against another Silver 5 in the toplane. The amount of mechanical and game mistakes they make is astronomical - they push lane all day, overextend, screw up trades, don't ward or have map awareness, etc. And because they are playing against an equally skilled player, no one learns because they get away with it. They actually get a false sense of security that they are playing well, when in reality they are both awful but don't realize it.

This is to help people realize that when you play against someone who is vastly skilled and above your level, look to see what he/she is doing differently from you and learn from that! As an AD main, I love playing against LCS players like Sneaky and Doublelift because of how perfectly they trade while not missing cs, how well they execute 2v2 fights in the bot lane. I learn when I play against the best of the best. Most of you will never play against that level of player, but when you are Silver and have to play against a Plat, keep that in mind and notice what he's doing differently.

(The screenshot is just an example of smurfing, mine specifically)

Edit: I know I am going to get a lot of low elo people raging and saying that all smurfs play on their smurfs to beat low elo players and make themselves feel good about themselves. For one, smurfs mostly smurf just so they can get another higher level account, not stay in an elo to beat low elo players. For two, ironically enough, a lot of you current low elo players complaining about smurfing, have not only most likely played on your level 20's but will smurf too at some point. So you're hypocrites =). Please go on though with the cliché complaints.

52 Comments

AMYS GRAVE12 votes

If you are playing against someone marginally better than you, there is the possibility to see how they are outplaying you. As in "they are playing just like me except for this one thing." which means you can see the differences. If you are in master then you can learn from playing against the pros because your skill differential isn't too large. If there is an enormous skill gap then there isn't really anything you can do because there is no mental reference frame for how they are playing because their play styles are so dramatically different that you don't know where to begin to improve. Playing against smurfs who are significantly better than their opponents cause an information overload where it is difficult to improve.

In short no, it doesn't help grade school basketball players to play against Jordan. It is just a discouraging unfair game.

GroundEffect2 votes

Which is where low elo players' lack of using replays comes into play. Sure, when you are in a game at the time it is hard to see every single thing that a much more skilled player than you is doing. But if you use a replay, you can take the time to break down everything they are doing.

Raptamei4 votes

[{quoted}](name=AD Carey,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=uxtbboJ1,comment-id=00060000,timestamp=2015-05-01T22:39:15.870+0000)

Which is where low elo players' lack of using replays comes into play. Sure, when you are in a game at the time it is hard to see every single thing that a much more skilled player than you is doing. But if you use a replay, you can take the time to break down everything they are doing.

There is no replay feature in League of Legends.

AMYS GRAVE2 votes

Right, you have to use third party software, which I believe is against the terms of service.

yellowbricks5 votes

Keep waving your e-peen around trying to justify your ego trip. I bet you'd learn one thing getting thrown into a boxing ring with Mike Tyson having never worn boxing gloves before, that getting the shit beat out of you hurts. Fuck that self righteous posturing that people play this game to learn, I don't, and I'm sure there are others like me, it's a video game, I'm here to have fun. Then comes some piece of shit smurf to ruin the fun and either carry me to victory leaving me feel like I didn't earn it, or mercilessly slaughter me and my team insulting us in all chat.

There's no good reason to smurf. If you want to practice some role with no repercussions then you're a hypocrite, telling us to be blessed to learn from you ivory tower shits but turn tail and run away from fair fights to learn something new. Trying to get another diamond master account is just pointless e-peen waving though, judging by your post it seems like your MO.

In short, get the hell out of where you aren't wanted and stick with one account. You act like you're doing us a favor, piss off with that, no one wants to play against you mouthbreathers.

GroundEffect2 votes

So you say you play the game to have fun - and you associate having fun with winning. If that's the case, then stick to normal. Ranked is all about getting better. You can have fun while learning. But again, Ranked is about improvement and climbing. Only way to climb is by getting better. The amount of rage you've been able to pack into a couple paragraphs is actually hilarious though. And when I smurf, I LOVE playing against people like you because how mad I can make you. And I don't feel bad about it because of your poor attitude and lack of willing to learn.

AtheosisX9 votes

[{quoted}](name=AD Carey,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=uxtbboJ1,comment-id=00070000,timestamp=2015-05-01T22:49:27.574+0000)

So you say you play the game to have fun - and you associate having fun with winning. If that's the case, then stick to normal. Ranked is all about getting better. You can have fun while learning. But again, Ranked is about improvement and climbing. Only way to climb is by getting better. The amount of rage you've been able to pack into a couple paragraphs is actually hilarious though. And when I smurf, I LOVE playing against people like you because how mad I can make you. And I don't feel bad about it because of your poor attitude and lack of willing to learn.

Oops, the mask just slipped and we just saw your true motivations peek through. You're really just a troll who gets a kick out of beating up on inferior players and making them mad. It has nothing to do with helping people learn.

yellowbricks4 votes

[{quoted}](name=AD Carey,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=uxtbboJ1,comment-id=00070000,timestamp=2015-05-01T22:49:27.574+0000)

So you say you play the game to have fun - and you associate having fun with winning. If that's the case, then stick to normal. Ranked is all about getting better. You can have fun while learning. But again, Ranked is about improvement and climbing. Only way to climb is by getting better. The amount of rage you've been able to pack into a couple paragraphs is actually hilarious though. And when I smurf, I LOVE playing against people like you because how mad I can make you. And I don't feel bad about it because of your poor attitude and lack of willing to learn.

Please show me where in my post I even alluded to having fun by winning? Because that's not true at all, as long as the game is fair (ie smurfs aren't stomping around like Godzilla in Tokyo), win or lose, I can have fun. The part about smurfs carrying me to victory is a bad thing, it's a hollow victory where my actions are ultimately meaningless as I'm on the same team as Michael Jordan and he's just slamming the ball into the hoop over and over as I just stare blankly, that's not fun. and losing to a smurf, especially a cocky ass one (which from your attitude I'm guessing you probably get off on taunting people when you're stomping around) is even less fun. The worst part is there's no justice, smurfs can act as shitty as they want to people, oh no, my smurf will be banned! Whatever, I still got my main where I can act like an angel and can make another smurf to ruin people's day.

I have nothing but burning venomous bile for people like you who smurf to stomp new players and act like we should be blessed to play with someone who should not even be in our league. Just admit it, you're having a nice little ego trip as an "AD Carey" destroying people without a care, don't try and dress it up like you and your ilk are doing us a favor, because you really aren't. All you're doing is skewing the rank system by unfairly causing 5 people to lose who might've had a chance, and carrying up 4 people who may or may not deserve those points. Alone it's not a big deal, but when smurfing becomes more common, it becomes a problem, a fault of a free to play game. I'm sure you guys would think twice if it cost say $30 to start a new ego trip.

AtheosisX4 votes

You learn from playing against players that are better than you when they are only somewhat better than you and you can recognize what you did wrong to lose to them. You don't learn from being a bronze player getting stomped 30-0 by someone who plays at a Masters skill level. But good job trying to rationalize your toxic behavior...

GroundEffect1 votes

When you are are in a game at the time it is easier to see things you could do better when playing against someone who is only a bit better than you. However if you watch your replay of a game against a Diamond/master player, then you can see. Then again most low elo players don't watch replays, thus giving up an important part of the learning process.

AtheosisX2 votes

That's kind of a fair point, at least early in a game. Once the high level smurf has a huge gold advantage though it once again becomes useless for learning purposes.

disregardable3 votes

"No, see, it doesn't matter if I smash your faces in and you don't know what you did wrong. We're helping you improve just by being better than you".

I used to get matched against low gold-high silver players in Normals. There were games where I was the only Bronze player in the game (and I'm in Bronze 5). You know what happened? They brought pre-nerf Lucian into my Jinx and wrecked me. It happened over and over, and I had absolutely no idea why or how to fix it. I didn't learn anything from watching 17/0 Lucian 1v5 my team 10 times in a row. Then my MMR dropped to the point where I could actually understand how to defeat my opponent. Now I don't hate the game anymore. :D

But congrats on smashing some low elo kids faces in, I guess. You must feel so good.

ZeeDrakon2 votes

well if you dont understand, thats YOUR fault. every reasonable human beeing getting fucked by a smurf would realize " hm, hes ahead. maybe i shouldnt push the lane the 6th time because he killed me every time i did"...

disregardable2 votes

I did what The AFK Farmer would do- I did nothing but farm the jungle. If I was the jungler, I'd just fail when I ganked, and if I was the ADC, I'd just die if I tried to farm under tower, so farm the jungle it was. It's not my fault I got matched with someone that knew more about the game than I did. Do you know what that means? It means if I tried to do something, it'd fail. "You can't do anything, just sit there and watch the Platinum player smash your teammates' faces in". That's what he's suggesting. That's a really toxic situation that no one should be put in.

ZeeDrakon1 votes

its a toxic situation because you dont WANT to learn? not every game is winnable, but a thing that helped me alot was a quote: "i never lose. either i win or i learn". its not gaming related in the original sense but its very much applicable here. how can you possible learn more than by repeatedly failing? you learn what you CANT do, and you learn what you CAN do, and you can adapt the enemies strategies aswell...

disregardable2 votes

Yes, I learned that if Lucian is 17/0, you can't go near him. Yup. That was a valuable learning experience. Oh, he's coming towards your base and there's nowhere else to go outside your fountain? Well. You learned to AFK at fountain.

Saixos1 votes

I think there's more of a limit. If you're in bronze, then playing against plat players will be a terrible experience for you. But say you're primarily playing against low silvers - they're better than you, but they're not too much better than you. You can understand how they're playing marginally better, and improve slightly enough to get on equal footing with them.

GroundEffect1 votes

Where you learn mainly is the laning phase. He had to kill you in lane, which meant him out trading you as well as outperforming you in 2v2's in the bot lane. When you have screwed up so much to the point that he's 17/0 , yes there is nothing much to learn. Lmao.

chipsquared1 votes

Or how to be better in my case. I may be 2 levels behind sometimes, but it's always about outplay. I learned tips of warding and bush traps. How valuable CC and farm is. I stopped running around my lane like a chicken with his head off shoving in my minions and getting 2 CS every wave. If I fell behind I set my jungler up for a gank or I roamed and put myself back into it. It's easy to justify and tell yourself that you can't learn anything. It's also easy to blame your teammates or try to convince yourself it was his fault. I tell myself every game, even if behind, what can I do to make my team succeed.

GroundEffect2 votes

See this guy gets it.

ZeeDrakon1 votes

i actually learned a TON by playing with lvl 30 friends from the day i started league onwards. we lost a whole lot of games, but when i was lvl 20 i was better than most newly lvl 30 players already. its, exactly as you explained, always a question of wheter people try to learn or not. and, from my experience, many people believe in "Elo hell" and think they dont need to improve because its just their team holding them back and not they themselves

GroundEffect2 votes

If it's a normal game, they couldn't see your Jinx pick so it was a risk for you playing Jinx in the first place given you don't know the enemy AD pick. And for Lucian to get to 17/0, he had to beat you in lane. That's where you learn, that's where you find out what you are doing wrong.

You are a good example of the low elo player I am talking about though - you hated the game when you lost, and once you played against people of your own skill you liked the game because you could beat them in lane. Thank you though for exhibiting a PERFECT example of a low elo player who doesn't want to learn =).

BeatzBoyFTW3 votes

I may be Silver 3 & low elo (who is still on a verge to climb to Gold), and I must say this. I only wanted to improve myself by seeing what kind of mistakes I did with my roles when going against people to my level, such as Silver vs Silver & such. I want to know where's the point I have improved myself to know where the higher position I'm in.

But due to Diamond-Challenger people creating smurfs nowadays, which on top of my head you guys create smurfs because you're bored, you pretty much crashed the whole low elo balancing system. I'm here to be sure if I can crush most Silvers & Bronze if I got the rightful skills I may have earned, but with you smurfing people being here & beating me down constantly with your high elo Diamond/Master skills is just plain bullying. I don't see where I can improve from that. It's like those damn basketball high school boys thinking they are the king of their own school, and then went to the Chess Club to announce their "superiority" by punching the Chess member's face for some stupid goddamn reason.

I want to say this again. I want to improve to the point where I can actually be "promoted" to a point where I can actually fight against real Silver 1 & Gold division people, not against Diamonds/Masters who disguises themselves as Bronze 5 and fking up the matchmaking balance system.

Additional note: We also hate smurfs because they are the type of people who would troll for fun by afk-ing & being toxic.

The Whamboozler3 votes

Yeah, I'm gonna throw my hat in on the "OP is horribly misguided" idea too. Maybe at this point you love playing against people better than you (though if you're master that's VERY few people) but most league players aren't that close to the top. Playing against someone who stomps you that hard doesn't really teach you anything. You'll go out and die. So you'll hug tower... and die. So then you farm your jungle while they roam and mow down more of your team. Meanwhile your own team is raging at you for "letting their adc roam and snowball" and the game collapses into a ragefest. One of your teammates AFKs after his 5th death and no one else is even TRYING to win anymore, just arguing in chat waiting for the end. You learn nothing. You just play one horrible, one-sided stompfest, surrender as soon as you can, and then requeue again to hopefully be put against people at your own MMR.

Smurfing does not help the game. AT ALL. If you're a silver and you run into a smurf and get curb-stomped, that sucks... but you're probably already a committed player if you leveled to 30 and played enough ranked to get a rating. It'll just put you in a bad mood and then be forgotten. New players are who smurfing hurts most. For every new player who's seen it as a challenge, four new players have decided that it's not worth the stress and either stopped playing the game, or just played bots until level 30. Given how little you learn about in bots, I'd argue that the rampant smurfing in this game actually inhibits learning the game... since it encourages new players to play vs AI to avoid getting stomped horribly and bots teach you so little about the game.

People who want to learn the game will watch streams. They'll look up guides and strategy sites. They'll talk to their friends who play. From what I've seen the players who start off playing much better players and insist they're fine with it are the ones who started the game with at least one friend who played already, likely at a fairly high level. Those people were already committed to playing so they could play with their friend, they have someone holding their hand and telling them what to do as they go AND they have their own ringer to carry them through games. Now imagine you're starting league fresh and you're playing it alone. PvP is a hostile wasteland of NOTHING but people who will wreck your face. So what do you do? You don't play PvP. People learn and improve by steadily facing opponents who are close to their skill level or very SLIGHTLY above. Smurfs ruin low level pvp for the people genuinely trying to learn the game. They ruin plenty of other games too, but those new players might just put the game down and not come back due to how bad smurfing is at their level.

A sudden stomping by a smurf teaches you to improve at the game in the same way that a pro basketball player coming to your house and hosing you at 1v1 pickup street ball would teach you how to dunk. You're kidding yourself if you think getting stomped by a high leveled smurf helps said smurf's victims in any way. If you're already a devoted player all it does is waste your time in an unwinnable game before you jump into the next one. And if you're a newbie it just might be what drives you away from trying to learn the game at all.

TL:DR - The game would actually be GREATLY IMPROVED by the removal of smurfing. Smurfing is a horrible cancer that ruins the game for new players.

Edit: After reading some responses I can add this as well. Smurfing increases toxic behavior by a ton too. Not only does it piss people off to no end to get curb-stomped in an unfair match, but smurfs are often the players acting like jerks in chat to provoke people or doing dumb, trolly things because they don't care if their smurf accounts get banned.

Berry Állen2 votes

Smurfing is a terrible thing why would it be good. I do not wanna be blue and small all the time whilst gargamelle is hunting for my ass 24/7.

Only Play Darius2 votes

When you smurf and your teammates feed hard, how do you end up winning?

AtheosisX2 votes

[{quoted}](name=Jelly Mac,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=uxtbboJ1,comment-id=0004,timestamp=2015-05-01T22:20:06.655+0000)

When you smurf and your teammates feed hard, how do you end up winning?

He plays a champ who can hard carry (Vayne) and outfarms them, gets kills in lane, and then destroys the other team because he can can simply outplay them and likely they don't know how to focus attacks.

ZeeDrakon1 votes

you carry. thats why "elo hell" doesnt exist. if you play well you can carry.

Lugg3 votes

Unless you get stuck with support, then the difficulty factor goes up X10.

ZeeDrakon1 votes

thats not true either. mid and top are really good at carrying low elo, but supports, adcs and jungler suck at it altogether. (assuming your not much better than your elo) , and support isnt especially hard. you can serve your adc kills and either he takes them or he doesnt. if you play adc either your support knows what hes doing or he doesnt. exact same scenario. you cant win 1v2 lane as adc. ( in fact, i'd rather have the support be the better player if i could choose)

Lugg1 votes

What I am saying is that carrying low elo on support is super hard. If you have a good ADC, you are fine. If you have a bad one, then you are in trouble.

Jungle is almost as bad for carrying in low elo because you can have ALL lanes lose early before you can even start to impact the game. It's so much easier if you can have one lane winning so you only have to concentrate on the other two.

ADC is fine to carry unless you have a support that feeds.

ZeeDrakon1 votes

yea im not saying thats wrong, but its not significantly harder than adc and jungle IMO. i actually smurfed in mid-bronze for a while and i had worse games on ADC than on support (despite hardcore-maining ADC), because i ended up trading 1v2 etc because i didnt adapt to my support that well. but support has to adapt to the adcs playstyle anyway so it wasnt that much of a difference. also, more people are able to play adc than support in low elo.

GroundEffect2 votes

You are wrong when you say Jungle sucks at carrying low elo. Jungle has the highest carry potential next to mid at the moment. And your reasoning is that lanes lose in low elo? Lanes lose in every elo lmfao. you think that challenger players don't feed?

ZeeDrakon2 votes

obviously lanes lose in every elo, but higher elo players actually know how to not hardcore feed when behind. at least in most cases. also jungle takes the most blame for things that arent the junglers fault (or maybe not even a mistake at all by that matter)

my reasoning is actually that you are most likely on a tank, and if your not hard camping a lane you have quite low snowball potential, and i always felt like that is the most important thing in low elo.

AtheosisX1 votes

[{quoted}](name=AD Carey,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=uxtbboJ1,comment-id=00040001000000000001,timestamp=2015-05-01T22:41:07.340+0000)

You are wrong when you say Jungle sucks at carrying low elo. Jungle has the highest carry potential next to mid at the moment. And your reasoning is that lanes lose in low elo? Lanes lose in every elo lmfao. you think that challenger players don't feed?

I tend to suspect mindless, vegetable-level feeding where players continue to go all in when they are 0-5 against their 5-0 lane opponent probably doesn't happen. Call me crazy...

GroundEffect2 votes

Because I am able to smash my own lane so hard every game that it doesn't matter.

Only Play Darius1 votes

How do you smash your lane? Vayne has one of the worst early games.......

GroundEffect1 votes

Vayne has an immense skill cap, especially for laning. Inexperienced Vayne's don't use tumble to dodge skill shots and don't know their own kill potential in lane. While she has a weaker laning phase than someone like Graves, I beat every Graves I play against because I trade well by tumbling his Buckshot/R. Key to winning lane is trading well.

Nucleophilic atk3 votes

You actually beat every Graves you play because you are playing people that are probably playing Graves for the first time. Don't pat yourself too hard, bud.

UberAffe2 votes

I agree to a point. A bronze player playing against a plat or higher is not going to learn anything, they don't have enough base knowledge to identify what the difference is. A bronze playing against a silver/ low gold is close enough in skill that they should still be able to see difference in how they play.

GroundEffect2 votes

A lot of you low elo's who are raging and crying about smurfs now will eventually change your minds as you climb throughout the years. I was Bronze 5 back in the day, and used to think that Silver 1's were so good and that's all I wanted to be. Perspective changes as you climb. Most of you who are crying about smurfs are in your baby years of league. You'll get it eventually, this post was to help you speed up that process.

AtheosisX5 votes

[{quoted}](name=AD Carey,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=uxtbboJ1,comment-id=0009,timestamp=2015-05-01T22:52:52.517+0000)

A lot of you low elo's who are raging and crying about smurfs now will eventually change your minds as you climb throughout the years. I was Bronze 5 back in the day, and used to think that Silver 1's were so good and that's all I wanted to be. Perspective changes as you climb. Most of you who are crying about smurfs are in your baby years of league. You'll get it eventually, this post was to help you speed up that process.

Sorry, but that's not true at all. Many players at your level do not think smurfing is cool. Don't universalize your perspective.

chipsquared4 votes

I had a lot of respect for how you were acting about this until you called everyone a "cry baby." toward those who expressed their own opinion. Some of them were completely false based, but there were a select few that I almost have to nod along with and agree. Like SixDogMan. You want to set an example then do so by proving us wrong not stooping down to the level of the 14 year old kids and resorting to calling everyone names. Congratulations on being Master, but I guess you never shook the Bronze toxic out of yourself.

Errastas1 votes

You're what's wrong with this community, calling someone a "crybaby" is not being toxic. Too many players tossing the word "toxic" now a days when someone says something they don't like. Life's tough, wear a helmet.

LifeCyclesTWA2 votes

AD Carey, the most impressive thing about this thread is not your rank, not your great string of victories, not the outcry of angry noobs...

AD Carey, can you tell me how you were able to pick Vayne every match? I tried the same thing back in S2 and S3 with Talon. I would say, "Mid or top Talon. Check my match history." I had some crazy average like 16 kills 3 deaths a game in ranked as Talon, but people would still say, "no mid or troll" and shit like that.

So please, how were you able to pick Vayne every game?

64931067_DEL2 votes

Why league place same elo people in same tier ? They can be better when they learn from some one just a little bit better, not some one who live in other worlds. Like a child 5 years old wont like to practice karate with a 15 boy. He cant learn anything, except the natural unfair.

IcyPepper1 votes

I hear ya, but it's only up to a point

Players watch streams for a reason, but getting dominated by much, much higher elo players can only teach you so much. Sure, you can learn tricks to dominating the lane and balancing offense with cs'ing, but you can't learn how to defend or make a comeback against an opponent whose skill level far surpasses yours if you don't have a chance in the first place.

But hey, I'm used to playing against stronger opponents with my friends, so I kind of get it. But it has to be gradual, a consistent practice. Playing mostly your elo and suddenly a challenger smurf appears is one thing (you will get destroyed), but consistently playing against slightly better opponents is much better for practice. Take me for example. I can't lane for shit, and balancing aggression with farming is a pain the ass. But I main adc in ranked, because I have habit I've picked up from higher elos by trusting my teammates, utilizing map awareness, and focusing on objectives rather than flashy plays and kills. That's something you can pick up from much higher elo opponents (a fed Riven can die in a 1v5, after all), but people are unlikely to learn much if they're still at the solo carry mentality (although smurfs can be an eye opener that you do need your team).

yellowbricks1 votes

Ah, just read the op's edit, someone should pick up the phone cuz I fuckin called it!

Smurfs smurf not to feel good about themselves but to get another high level account... To feel good about themselves. What is the point in trying to get to diamond again? You know you can do it if you eschew enough of life's splendor to sit in your basement and get 6 diamond accounts, who cares about it? Do you brag to your fellow elite nerds saying yeah man I got 6 diamond accounts I'm so good?

There's no point to having more than one account, the only reason I can see is you plateau at a point and you're mad, elo hell is where you make it after all. So you go back down to where you have an actual chance of winning not through skill but just because you've thrown a wrench into match making, exploiting the system to go back to elementary school and wreck the grading curve for everyone else.

No one is impressed with your 6 diamond accounts, this isn't call of duty, there's no prestige system. it'd be more impressive if you took that time, applied yourself to your main and pushed through to challenger on the one account. I mean, you learn so much fighting people stronger than you, so what the hell are you learning down here with us? Go back to your main and climb the last of that Rocky peak. Unless you're scared of the challenge and don't want to learn?

Mandang01 votes

LMAO, high elo players aren't smurfing for the benefit of low elo players, they're ALSO doing so to win (by very large margins).

But, if we're so interested in raising cross-elo awareness, how about reverse smurfing? Maybe it would encourage more smurf teachers if we could bring bronze into their ranked games. After all, the game's about more than winning, right? It could help them learn how to carry harder!

If these smurfs are so interested in teaching lower players, there are more constructive ways to do it, ways that guarantee their efforts go to players who actually want the help - like mentoring. All smurfing does is ruin the matchmaker (and, thus, the quality of the game).

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