why is smurfing a thing

DarkLarvitar··3 votes·925 views

Diamond azir and garen smurf just ruined game, just outplayed my teamates its really no fair to smurf, doing obvous things a silver player couldnt... please higher people dont mess up our games, you just ruin it for us as bot we won but cuz mid and top were actual silvers they lost hard, its honestly no fair this happens

19 Comments

Myrmiron2 votes
  1. Because stomping is fun from time to time.
  2. Because you really don't want to practice new champions vs players on your elo.

I personally practiced Riven on a smurf. But I couldn't get past Plat 5 so I dropped her. x)

dagurr1 votes

add them if you can thats the only way out of bronze now

Sniper 01 votes

I beg to differ... lol

           Also, the thing with smurfing is that it's just a fun thing to do. You also learn from it. The mistakes that happen at higher elo's tend to happen way more often at lower elos. It's also actually a challenge to effectively carry low elo players. Not every Plat or diamond smurf is a god who can carry bronze. It teaches you how to deal with people who have their heads up their posterior. ;)
DarkLarvitar1 votes

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add them if you can thats the only way out of bronze now

not in bronze

Sermo1 votes

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ElysMustache2 votes

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2). Player in high Diamond - Challenger (albeit a small percentage of players) are accidentally punished for being good at this game. They have 20-50 minute queue times to play a 20 minute game. No one wants to do that. So, these players create a smurf and quickly rank up in order to actually play the game.

And yet taking this course of action perpetuates the problem. If they all played on their mains, there would be a higher active population and they would find matches more quickly.

Vicarious1171 votes

So say someone who has a diamond account wants to play with a friend of theirs in silver in a ranked game.... do you suggest they just forget that notion and never make another account for the sole purpose of playing with a friend?

What if someone moved from Europe to North America but didn't want to transfer their accounts cause of their friends still back home, but still wanted to play on the closer servers for less lag? Do you suggest they just never do that and always have to put up with stupidly high ping just to avoid the ranking ladder to save you and other lowbies a single match you have to play against them?

Seems to me like you're being rather selfish about this.....

Gimpy891 votes

NORM?

DarkLarvitar1 votes

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NORM?

ranked promos to silver 4 actually

Gimpy891 votes

as in play normals instead of using a smurf to boost.

Vicarious1171 votes

A lot of people find normals to be a waste of time, should they change how they feel to accommodate a couple people who can't deal with smurfs then?

1st Movement1 votes

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So say someone who has a diamond account wants to play with a friend of theirs in silver in a ranked game.... do you suggest they just forget that notion and never make another account for the sole purpose of playing with a friend?

What if someone moved from Europe to North America but didn't want to transfer their accounts cause of their friends still back home, but still wanted to play on the closer servers for less lag? Do you suggest they just never do that and always have to put up with stupidly high ping just to avoid the ranking ladder to save you and other lowbies a single match you have to play against them?

Seems to me like you're being rather selfish about this.....

Isn't true about low diamond Kekeke

Seen d5 garen run to lane without items before someone told him

Low diamonds are just idk most seem bad

Ruin Lance1 votes

quite a bit of low diamonds are boosted. the people who are actually low diamond aren't.

Vicarious1171 votes

You have those kinds of morons in every ELO of the game, especially right now with this new dynamicQ... or well I guess I should call it "boostersQ."

1st Movement1 votes

They can teach you why you lost just watch them beat you

It not about learning why you lost not just winning

Morrofox1 votes

Sometimes a toxic player will have his main account banned. He just makes a smurf and I'm not sure what Riot can do to stop him.

Taric the Gay1 votes

I'm a smurf. I'm only smurfing to teach a friend the game. Low level play is notoriously toxic and my friend was debating on quitting. So I came down to teach him and quell some of the toxicity in his games. And I handicapped myself by playing the weakest role (support), on the weakest champions in the game and I named myself in such a way to make it obvious that I was a smurf.

I know smurf players aren't welcomed in most cases but I think that I am one of the good ones. I went down with good intentions and even if I got fed it's not like I was in a position to take objectives down. All I did was put my team in an easier situation so they could win the game for themselves. They still had to work for the win.

But not all smurf players are like me. Most come down just to smash mouth the new players just to make themselves feel good. And then they berate and taunt the new players too. Those are the ones who are making the game unhealthy.

http://www.auplod.com/u/ulaopd785ed.png

xVARIANTx1 votes

I don't believe you guys. This poor guy makes a humble request for higher elo players not to bully his elo and you're all listing specific situations where a higher elo player might have a valid reason. He's not accusing anyone, he's not demanding, nor is he threatening anyone. He's just asking.

Let's face it though, in a community where people make accounts just to win more often in aram games, there are going to be a good portion of higher elo players who do it just for the self-satisfaction of stomping someone... for entirely selfish and malicious reasons. It's those people he's asking to simply pick on someone their own size.

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