Why isnt smurfing a reportable offense?

Falldrake481481·7/16/2019, 6:24:33 AM·1 votes·1,437 views

A huge majority of the time I played ranked I see a smurf that either carries me for a free win, which I don't deserve. Or they are on the other team and ruin my climb or my promos and I'm 100% percent sure many others have experienced the same thing. So I'm very curious why it isnt a bannable offense. I mean for crying out loud every sport for kids on the planet doesnt allow a grown professional player play on the team. It's unfair and its digusting, but it keeps happening. Why is it allowed when Riot even tried to make ranked better as a climb. But they cant find a solution for this? I mean for crying out loud if they want people to play ranked at all, they need to fix this problem and every other problem that exists first. I wouldn't mind waiting months for it and I'm pretty sure some people would agree if it gives everyone a better experience overall.

18 Comments

SEKAI7/16/2019, 6:32:47 AM3 votes

Riot does not consider smurfing a violation against the game's ToS.

But if you ask me, they should be, at least in the way it is now.

Because high elo smurfs ruin low elo matchmaking, and they've been ruining since the day smurfs were born. A high elo smurf ruins low elo games in the exact same way as a boosted player ruins high elo matchmaking, just in reverse.

Not only that, "duo boosting" is a kind of boosting that's entirely legal and has been abused for years already, where a high elo plays on a smurf and duos with a low elo friend or client in order to carry them into a much higher elo than they otherwise would never achieve on their own. Needless to say, such a loophole needs to be closed.

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At the VERY least, if you own a smurf account, it should never be more than 1 whole league below wherever your main is (Say, a Gold 2 main should never smurf below Silver 2. I also have some ideas on how such thing could be designed, such to prepare for when you climb on your main and your smurf became out of that range, where probably the smurf are given a certain time period to climb to the range or else it's sent back to being Unranked).

The only exception would be given to Masters+ due to the scarcity of the players and their often justified reasons to smurf, where say a Challenger can still smurf in Diamond at minimum.

That's it. Boom. Fixed.

You have 1 job, Riot.

mack91127/16/2019, 7:09:44 AM3 votes

Just because somebody is better then you does not make them a smurf.

SEKAI7/16/2019, 6:38:30 AM2 votes

The implementation I mentioned above implies that smurfs and mains should be tied in some way. And indeed they should be.

I'm not even gonna touch on just how many players create disposable smurfs to BM and get banned on. To tryhard on their main, and be a shitty human being on this scapegoat smurf.

They're not going to care when the scapegoat gets banned. They're just going to create yet another throwaway BM account to be toxic, to dodge and get away from punishment.

That's more reasons for smurfs to be tied to main accounts. No more can people use throwaway smufs as scapegoats.

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Honestly, besides the top elo players who actually have real reasons to smurf due to abysmal queue times outside of prime times, there is NOTHING GOOD out of the whole shit with smurfing. Almost nothing but exploitation and abuse.

The least you could do, is at least TRY to make it less abusable?

Darkdemon6537/16/2019, 10:04:26 AM2 votes

Why would someone having more than one account be a banworthy offense?

preternatural7/16/2019, 4:57:49 PM2 votes

smurfing is not reportable because, spoiler alert should maybe be included here, pro players that are under riot contract smurf.

HEAljvLykd7/16/2019, 6:39:31 AM1 votes

lmao