The biggest problem that has ever occured to LoL is smurfing.

Exalez··23 votes·4,022 views

I have never ever played a game where there are 2-4 smurfs on each team, every match. Us noobs will not improve when we get stomped on, it makes my experience of the game really bad. Smurfs are like a barrier that pushes out new players. What usually happens is that one or two smurfs on the opposing team gets really super fed and then it's game over. Either that or all the smurfs on both teams plays evenly while us noobs gets to just spectate them fight. This really ruins games, and LoL would probably be about 20% more popular if it wasn't for smurfing, because LoL is a really really fun game but meeting players who has years of experience and knows every ability, passive, counter and matchup for every champ in the game will greatly ruin the games for new players. Noobs will either go with 10-20 deaths against a smurf or they will maybe have less than 10 deaths if your teams smurf is better than other teams smurf. All I want is players to stick to their mains, I would rather want noobs with macros than smurfs. You would probably say that you learn more from playing with better players, well it comes to a point wherethere is absolutley no way what so ever that you are going to to learn anything cause you are just being stomped on so extremly hard. I just wish for a more noobfriendly game, that everyone can enjoy, and with all these smurfs, most new players will leave LoL, cause there is no fun in not getting any kills or having any impact on the game.

Thanks for reading this and I hope that you think before you go on your smurfs and bully us new players just to make yourself feel good, cause it is really unfair.

19 Comments

Only Play Darius11 votes

Not all smurfs are bad. Some people smurf to play with friends, practice roles/champs that they are terrible at, and to help out new players learn the game faster, and Riot is generally fine with this. The smurfs who buy Riven/Yas/LB at level 1 and stomp every single game are scum but sadly only seem to be rising in number and need to be addressed.

DrCyanide5 votes

I don't get why Riot doesn't just put a handicap on someone's main account when they're playing with someone under level 30. There are tons of things they could do to bring the experienced player more in-line with the noobs.

  • Reduce damage dealt by experienced player
  • Increase damage taken by experienced player
  • Decrease gold earned by experienced player
  • Decrease experience gained by experienced player
  • Reduced movement speed of experienced player

Ultimately Riot needs to tackle why people make smurfs and come up with solutions that encourage them to do other things instead. A "start over" button for banned players that takes them to a new account creation page where they can instantly be matched with other known smurfs would help, a way to get a second account that's instantly level 30 would help with both smurfing and bots, etc.

420 grams3 votes

So prestige mode?

kaltenashes3 votes

in my experience i had like 2 or 3 games with smurf, then i never saw a smurf again... only probably bronze smurfs, they said they were smurfs

DarkRitual3 votes

The game actually picks up smurfs fairly early in their leveling. What most likely happend to OP is they started playing with/against players who picked up some mechanics and champions at a faster pace.

daemanic2 votes

Hell Smurfs are giving riot false numbers anyways how can u be sure if you are getting new people when some people have 13+ accounts

Dukues1 votes

Right I have always thought that. Then you say challenger is top 200 players, but each challenger player averages probably 2.5 (2-3) accounts in challenger. So its more like top 80 players.....

Not going to lie I have 3 level 30 accounts. This is the only game I have ever made another account in and wish Riot would have addressed this issue years ago so there is no such thing as smurfs. Sadly, doubt it will ever change. Bless any new player who grinds out trying to learn this game. It can't be easy and I feel for you and respect any of you for sticking with it.

Exalez3 votes

I think that Riot would profit alot more if they would ban smurfs, cause it is very obvious whether you are smurfing or not.

Mig892 votes

This thing is, as you lose youll be less likely to be matched against a smurf. Its shitty situation but nlosing a few games will get you against people your level. I don't mind smurfs because if you are really trying to learn to get better just see how they engage on you and go from there. Last hitting minions is very very important and that's where they usually get a lead on you. Learn from how theyre dominating and just practice.

R FLASH XD1 votes

Now some random fuck will come and say: No dynamic queue is the worst

Volgorath1 votes

It would be nice if your main account gets to Gold V, then you can get a brand new account starting at lvl 30, a nice clean start.

Schàdenfreude1 votes

Are you saying... I can't smurf and destroy noobs?

I am very disappointed by this post. Please don't ruin the fun of reking lvl 10's.

Cabalist4 votes

That is like taking a 10 yr old's toy.Its wrong, real wrong, and you shouldnt be the 30 year old man doing it.

Zaryelle1 votes

I agree it is probably one of the biggest issues, and indeed ruins low level games, but I don't really see a solution. The obvious one would be to limit to 1-2 accounts per device, but they will never do that, because when people get banned or want to make a new account they can't and they'll just quit instead. Basically about the money instead of actual logic..

MrPharmD1 votes

I just find it funny when I go like 15-3 one game...and then like 0-8 the next lol.

Death by Kayn1 votes

When I play on my smurf, I try my best to give helpful advice to anyone who appears to need it, friend or foe. I'm also happy to queue up with people who tell me they need more help

Exalez1 votes

Its not helpful to go 20-0 and win, regardless of what you say or do.

dunkeroni1 votes

But you see I have a problem in which I need to have a smurf. I am a support main since season 3, and though I did climb to Gold last season, I am absolutely terrible at playing ADC. I am so appallingly bad that I fear I might be reported and banned for feeding if I practice on my main account. Therefore, I have a smurf on which I only play Ashe and regularly lose to Lv7 noobs who forget to buy items.

On some level, I agree with you. There are many mechanics in the game that I know about but lower level players simply haven't thought of, much less attempted to use. However, in laning phase against a low level player, I simply have no idea what I'm doing if I'm not playing a mage of some sort, so it generally evens out and I have a 40% winrate because of it.

Exalez1 votes

I know that I am very supreme to most noobs even though my account level is just 20. I have 3000 hours on Smite and I wanted to try LoL to change my mindset about mobas. But my entire experience with LoL is really really bad. It's really really easy to spot a smurf, and the worst part is where 90% of all smurfs I've ever met flames their team and spams "noobs" and well... that is exactly what we are, they do not have the right to go into lower levels, expecting to destroy noobs but then fail and blame their team.

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