Is smurfing bannable or punishable?

Quáx·3/6/2019, 2:55:30 PM·2 votes·1,651 views

So I recently went up against a Rengar who was level 31 and had champion points in the hundreds. However this guy said absolutely nothing all game, destroyed me and my entire team single-handedly, and weirdest of all he didn't have a champion icon, he's also gotten more than 12 kills for most of his games and around 1-2 maybe 3 deaths. So I think it's obvious he's smurfing and I'm thinking of submitting a ticket but don't know if it's bannable or not. This was a promo game so I was kinda pissed that I got a smurf against me.

18 Comments

Crunks3/6/2019, 3:21:47 PM4 votes

No smurfing isnt against the rules.

Sukishoo3/6/2019, 3:22:25 PM4 votes

Nope.

Sona Ping3/6/2019, 3:16:10 PM3 votes

No, it is not. If he as a player is not banned from the game, he's not violating anything by playing it.

Netorare3/6/2019, 7:22:20 PM2 votes

No and it should not be...

The Ecdysiast3/6/2019, 3:12:30 PM2 votes

Nope, it's actually encouraged. In several statements they've said they want people to have the option to play with new friends.

And why wouldn't they encourage it? Think about it:

Meeting a smurf will not make you quit the game. You know it was the smurf's fault, not the game's. And you still like the game. Unless you meet a smurf every single game, you aren't going to be quitting because of it. Just the same as you wouldn't quit the game for getting AFK's.

Allowing smurfs means allowing more opportunities for purchase. One account can only ever buy a skin once. But making multiple accounts, if you play the same champs and like the same skins you're likely to buy the same skins again even though you already own them.

So there is effectively no customer-opinion reason to spend tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire teams to crack down on smurfing. Meanwhile there is plenty of profit to be made from allowing the practice to continue.

Tobykachu3/6/2019, 2:58:18 PM1 votes

You'd think Riot would do something about Smurfs but they honestly don't give a f*ck. just recently they gave two high elo streamers - Tyler1 and Yassuo completely unranked accounts so they could take part in a bet.

Iron Phantom3/6/2019, 7:16:01 PM1 votes

People that smurf are assholes, but it's not bannable.