Smurfs

TwiztidrootZ·Jun 28, 2017·3 votes·384 views

Why are smurfs allowed? They can often single handedly ruin an entire game for people and its completely fair and allowed. I thought the ranking system was in place for a reason, to test your skills and see how high you can climb within fairness, being slowly matched with people your own skill level. But it is completely stomped on by people making smurfs just to trash lower elo's either cause they've already been banned for toxic behavior on their mains, or they can't stomp those guys as easy. That is just as bad as making level 1 accounts just to stomp newbies. It is a toxic thing to do in itself and only leads to new people not wanting to try the game anymore, or people in ranked not wanting to play anymore cause they just get smurfs who destroy them and that normally leads to your team trashing you, my question is how is this fair?

5 Comments

archerno1Jun 28, 20172 votes

So low ELO players have someone to learn from

Starcraft243verJun 28, 20171 votes

Because you can't prevent smurfs from happening.

Also the counter against smurfs is that if they crush low elo, they climb, and thus they are not low elo anymore.

So better allow them.

DU BaymaxJun 28, 20171 votes

Plus your team is about as likely to have a smurf as the other team, so you're probably getting carried by smurfs almost equally as much as you're getting stomped by them. That's why it's not really a problem.

But like Archer said, yes, you should view when you play with smurfs as a learning opportunity. Look at what they're doing and how they're getting ahead and learn from it.