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Does anyone else find it wrong or inappropriate with the youtuber one tricks?

Viral Vermin·4/11/2019, 5:48:06 AM·2 votes·1,312 views
Professor Akali

Hey! Let me start by saying, I don't have a problem with the players. I like one trick players. They are the best at identifying, mastering, and manipulating the game in a way that creates fun, off meta stuff, every time the meta shifts. Until recently, one could subscribe to these channels and see the same thing for five years. How to guides after every patch. Highlight replays. Carries. Etc Etc Etc. Now it looks like this group of "Rank 1" one tricks on youtube are looking to try and develop content using all of those ideas. This is the point where I start to have a problem. The smurfing. The "Rank 1" champs in Iron, Bronze, Silver, and Gold games. Yes their numbers are high. Yes it can be entertaining. Yes, I enjoy watching and listening to the players, because they remain informative, but I feel terrible for the opposing team. Not at first. At first I didn't notice. I want to say something important here, and hope that watchers pay attention to this: "_THE VISIBLE CHAT LOG WHILE THEY ARE PLAYING CONSISTENTLY HAS VETERAN PLAYERS CALLING THESE GUYS OUT FOR SMURFING AND ABSOLUTELY OBLITERATING THEM OR FOR THE NEWER PLAYERS THAT DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS, THEY GET HARD STOMPED AND THEY WERE ONLY TRYING TO PLAY THE GAME AT THEIR LEVEL. _ You might be asking why I prompted the previous statement and made it important. I want those who watch "Rank 1" streams and VOD's to see the chat, and to see if the "Rank 1" smurfing games suddenly have "mute all", to make it look like it's completely fine and there isn't actually any bad times had by the enemy team. We all know these games aren't just played by adults (Cigar anyone?) and kids can be toxic just as much as adults. BUT this is a GAME, that is designed to grow with your skill level. It seeks to keep the game play varied, but prioritizes same skill players to stay within their group. I think the alternative games that are just as entertaining, are the 1v3,4,5 custom matches these "Rank 1" content chasers record. That highlights their skill and allows lower level players to CHOOSE to go toe to toe with a "Rank 1". No, I haven't had a smurf in my game. I'm not salty from a recent loss. I popped over here to the boards after seeing a clickbait title from a "Rank 1" player highlighting a "hidden OP" technique, which was very much clickbait only. Kudos to these guys for baiting videos well, and pumping out content. Now leave the lower tier alone, and show us your skill at your correct level. Otherwise, I think we should stop watching their smurf videos. Fewer views on those will stop them, unless they can do the right thing and play those smurf games with willing enemy participants. Seriously, check the chat in some of those videos guys, the enemy is not having fun. Not just raging or throwing a tantrum, but feeling defeated at the 9 min mark. Is that really something that should continue so these youtuber's can get easy content?

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Ao Dracona4/11/2019, 6:00:00 AM3 votes

Yes yes yes someone finally addressed this issue with content creators but the thing about this is that well it’s youtube, it gets views

These so called ranked oners smurf in lower tier which allows them to do crazy builds in lower elo but of course most viewers don’t know that and when a rank oner does a crazy build that shouldn’t work it gets in views, other than that they are faking their so called “skill” by smurfing like these guys are at least diamond or above, I have almost never seen a YouTube/twitch streamer play in their respective tiers take, Yassuo/Moe for example you see his YouTube channel (Pinoy’s channel) he’s actually playing in his elo and not advertising himself as this god tier yasuo one trick, he’s just a high elo player with personality and skill that’s rakes in views and it’s not just high elo it’s lower elo creators as well that make good league content like MagikarpUsedFly who’s videos aren’t based in ranked and are purely just for fun and shits and giggles and he’s not diamond but at least he nor moe fake their skill by smurfing, I’ve begun tired of these youtubers who advertise themself as rank 1 and show themselves playing in a iron game, it’s a cowardly move but it rakes in views I guess but it is about time that ppl called these ppl out

Viral Vermin4/11/2019, 8:10:35 AM1 votes

You know, I didn't even think of MagiKarpUsedFly and his content. Rossboomsocks too. They both have fun in the game and are entertaining, without ruining it for 5-9 other players. Even when MagiKarp plays today with his group, it's usually in Normal mode with friends. Ross does elo climb videos, but he works hard and sets a goal for himself at the start of each season. Both of them have varied content and a good following. I watch an Eve one trick on Twitch, but Sunset was only smurfing this season while he was climbing out of elo, not to abuse Eve in low elo. Come to think of it, he even says that it isn't fun to do that, and the beginning of the climb is a tough sprint, because of how hard he can carry and feel like it didn't improve his skills. I know they get views, and this isn't really the realm of Riot, League, or Twitch, so I was thinking we need a community push. Something like commenting unsubscribe and don't watch until they can get content without abusing low elo players against their will. Like I said, if they made custom games with willing people, and slaughtered them, no problem. The fact that every single possible build from 0 damage tank to full glass cannon AP/AD for "Rank 1" smurf streamers is theorycrafted after each patch, makes it worse. They spread those low elo troll builds around and the people that play those champs try to mimic these "Rank 1" guys which means they effect games they don't even queue for on the rift. I know many streamers do videos with unique builds, but the difference is where they use them, and it's usually started with, "Don't do this build. It's a terrible build." Those guys are abusing OP items, Champs, or runes, and either tell their viewers to try it in normals first, or not at all. The clickbait titles of the "Rank 1" smurfs though... Ya, they do the exact opposite and encourage low elo players to try and abuse things without a working knowledge of the mechanics of the game. We can both agree that they aren't doing anything wrong, but it's unsportsmanlike? There's a reason we have normal games, custom games, and ranked games. Those smurf accounts are ruining games for people doing the right thing.