Riot please take a look at your new-player unfriendly environment!

Rrank Five·12/3/2019, 9:41:41 AM·5 votes·3,397 views

--I think this is an important problem in the league community that should be addressed- Feel free to look me up. I joined league recently, feeling fresh to play some norms straight out from the bots. However, everyone was doing good except me, and I just kept getting killed and dived due to my lack of knowledge. I asked my brother and he demonstrated some games for me, and came to a conclusion that the people I was playing with are "smurfs." Then, I got a notification that I got banned, a fourteen day suspension for "intentional feeding." I'm really really angry because I know I'm new and not skilled enough to join the rift yet, however, I played norm expecting to face players that have similar skill level as me so I can learn and grow in the process. Does getting smashed and killed over and over again one-sided by those so called high level "smurfs" a reason to ban me for "intentionally feeding?" I know I'm not good enough and I'm trying to improve, but this environment is seriously not healthy. Instead of advising me, my entire team was flaming me and even giving me death threats in some games. What do those high elo "smurfs" expect from a low level game that was supposed to be designed to be an improving space for new players? This seriously broke my heart. I didn't die intentionally, I admit I'm outskilled. But riot, when was "unskilled player" a reason for a "fourteen day suspension?" Please have a nicer attitude towards new player in the future. (yes I've addressed this in player behavior board, but I think the underlying issue of new user unfriendly environment is important enough to be noticed by the public)

6 Comments

Tsukaite12/3/2019, 9:59:35 AM2 votes

Unfortunately it is like that. Imo, people should not be able to report accounts that are under level 30 for that. I have a low level account on NA and I happened to play with new players. You can tell they are new to the game by the way they position and play. But that's ok. We all start somewhere. My first game on the rift I went 0/30 cuz lol I ran into turret trying to dive the person over and over again. No one told me turrets do damage or how to play. You will get better :) But this community sucks. people wish you cancer and get no bans and then there's you, a new player who tries to learn but has to deal with smurfs and gets suspended for feeding. Riot Logic in a nutshell. Riot has to stop smurfing but that's off topic, it's a problem for everyone. But I guess being high elo and stoming low elo must feel very satisfying. Since they are not good enough for their own elo xD

RtClick12/3/2019, 5:51:26 PM1 votes

League Smurf detection is quite good. I've leveled a bunch of accounts from scratch and it only takes a couple of games of skilled play for it to match you up with other Smurfs. So by you letting your brother play on your account, your account was recognized as a Smurf account.

huhndog12/3/2019, 7:40:58 PM1 votes

I had a big problem against smurfs on my first days on the rift. My first couple games were with my higher-elo friends and after that I was stuck in a smurf queue. Still have PTSD from fed Katarina smurfs shiver