I'm perfectly fine with people smurfing

LaceUp23··95 votes·3,947 views

I'm perfectly fine with the smurf beating my ass and going 20-0. I am not fine, however, with said smurfs raging at players for "being bad". Like, are you really that stupid that you think you are not going to have bad players on your team that are just learning to play? Common sense...

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Blastires17 votes

Well said sir.

Have a Teemo

LaceUp2325 votes

Nooooooooo

Z3PH0N3 votes

Awe, come on man, Teemo is the cutest Champion! D:

XeroKimo14 votes

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Rew7113 votes

Veigar I am not cute. STOP THAT!!

Z3PH0N1 votes

Welp, folks, we have a winner.

I Main Swain7 votes

Urgot

A Miss Fortune1 votes

Swain mains.

RoMz4 votes

KogMaw is the cutest by far

ChaosThief9 votes

You're cursing someone for saying something GOOD?

QUICK, WHERE IS THE HOLY WATER?!

Hello I am Bird14 votes

THE POWER OF Garen COMPELS YOU THE POWER OF Garen COMPELS YOU

theragingnerd2 votes

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THE POWER OF Garen COMPELS YOU THE POWER OF Garen COMPELS YOU

garen loses to teemo you fool! long live satan

Hello I am Bird1 votes

Bro, Olaf, have you seen a lvl 6 Garen against a level 8 Teemo? Still rekkes the shit outta him

LittleBlast2 votes

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THE POWER OF PHREAK COMPELS YOU THE POWER OF PHREAK COMPELS YOU

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Stellafreyja10 votes

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I'm perfectly fine with the smurf beating my ass and going 20-0. I am not fine, however, with said smurfs raging at players for "being bad". Like, are you really that stupid that you think you are not going to have bad players on your team that are just learning to play? Common sense...

I posted a thread about this, but I'll post here anyway.

This legit just happened to me today. I only knew this Vayne was smurfing because they linked their Twitch stream. Within like 20 seconds of the laning phase, "God this Soraka (me) sucks." He tells me to go help mid and I go on my way. He then complains about dying after I'm gone. Refused to heal him in team fights because I'm petty. Also, their stream only had like 2 people in it. lol

Worst Penguin NA7 votes

I don't mind people smurfing long as they arn't being an ass about it =p Don't go to end lobby and say "first time (champname here)" every game, lol

T RexHasTinyArms4 votes

Or even worse, raging at their team and insulting opponents when they are just the second account of a medium ranked player rather than a diamond/master player smurfing to avoid having longer que times.

I think there is a special level of teemo hell for silver players pub stomping on new accounts or intentionally landing in bronze to play, or even gold or plat stomping on silver or something. Yeah of course you're going to run into a decent amount of players you beat easily if you're two tiers below where your normal MMR is, but quit insulting people just because you're frustrated you can't make that last push into the highest tiers and you're just a good player instead of a great one. Worst smurfs ever.

BluePolarizer1 votes

silvers, golds and most plats aren't good. plats just have experience. i'm not good. i have shit mechanics. i just have enough experience to know when to do things.

T RexHasTinyArms1 votes

Eh, that's also in how you define "good." High silver is like top 1/3 of the ladder so imo I'd say that's decent bc it's better than average. I'd say gold and plat are probably good imo, just not great or "damn you're good" level. I dunno, I think of it kinda like college or something, if the only people considered smart are the top 1% then we are talking PhD and MD graduates mostly, and from maybe half the schools in the country at most. Most people would say that graduating with good marks from a decent school would be worth calling smart, or that masters level work would at least count.

However, I think it might also be relative perspective. I just graduated w/ a masters from a school that is top 10 in the country for what I studied and I wouldn't call myself smart. In large part that is because when I think of "smart" people I think of the ones I sit in with and respect that are that next level (challenger academics and research tier :D lol); people whom most of population would consider brilliant. I've learned to accept that I'm smart in general terms so I don't argue with people when they say it, because it's probably true even if it's not the conception I have of the term. Similarly, as you get close to top tier play you probably start to realize how far from top tier just being good actually is. There is such a huge gap between good and great, smart and brilliant, that it becomes easy to discount the former as you approach really understanding the quality of the later. However, I think in this case a decent argument could be made that given the percentage of players who make gold/plat, they are solidly above average and that probably qualifies as good, but not great.

BluePolarizer1 votes

its all relative because you compare to those in your category, not the general population. i am a PHD candidate right now, but I don't think I'm smart - the ppl at top tier universities are smart, because I compare to them.

Verxint3 votes

The sad thing about anyone who rages in a low level game is that if they're really any good they should be able to carry it regardless.

The people who smurf frequently aren't that good, hence them using smurfs a lot.

MacbethAndCheese3 votes

I have started to play smurf games just to be a positive impact in the BM world. I try to add as many people as possible after game so i can make full non-smurf teams so theres no BM :)

Shinjusuke2 votes

People smurf for 1 of 2 reasons:

Reason 1: They just want to play with their new-to-league low level friends. The decent people in this group intentionally don't play at their best (unless it's obvious they're against another smurf) and smurf solely to not force their friends into having a horrid experience playing against people with 1000x more experience than them.

Reason 2: They're fuckin' bad, and are stuck at some rank on their main, and go to a low level account to ruin the fun of lower level players and pretend they're not complete garbage themselves. These are the people that QQ at you for being bad at level 4. Meanwhile, every time they play on their main, they're completely ass-punked because they don't realize they suck.

Jari1 votes

I actually have a third: When I take a long break or like recently where I got a new screen, I used a new account to get used to it without the need of people screaming how bad I am. At least bots at level 3 is friendlier than at 30, where if I wanted to do something everyone would make it their mission to ruin any practice there. Which it did help, first game went okay and got used to my screen and such before jumping back to the big account.

LaceUp231 votes

Reason 3: Main account got banned.

TeemoJenkins1 votes

Well said sir! Couldn't agree more. Make sure you report those ragers for their verbal abuse so they don't victimize others.

Aboylova921 votes

This is what I've tried to get across to a few friends. I have a "smurf" although I'm not that highly ranked at low Gold. Mainly to play with new players/friends that are low bronze. Once in a while some of my higher elo friends will play as well and get angry if x person didn't do something. And I'll tell them, that they're either new to the game, or don't take it that seriously. Give them a break we were all there at some point of another.

XinZhao2WinNhao1 votes

I don't like smurfing in ranked. Normal smurfing is fine. Seriously, a smurf is basically boosting 5 players ranks and lowering 4 players ranks

LaceUp231 votes

Boosting 4 and lowering 5*

Tiax1 votes

Ok as someone has a lot of experience smurfing in ranked, I do once in a while verbally explode at a player (which I never do on my main ever). But it's not just because someone is bad, you gotta realize that to a smurf almost everyone is bad lol (even if they get a good kda or w/e). It's when someone is extra bad then bad mouths me or other players, like that enrages me depending on what they say. This is because they have no idea what they are actually talking about and just spout some random ass shit to blame others when they are god damn terrible. But yeah someone just feeding or being useless is not a good reason for a smurf to flame, they are just a toxic player period it's not an overall smurfing issue.

o Shockwave1 votes

How about you all stop raging about smurfs being assholes and hit that mute button.

K thanks.

Ultra da boy1 votes

you really can't get mad. that's total ignorance. you know what you're getting into

Rrett1 votes

I used to shit talk the assholes in my games.

Not me: Report XXX for being shit

Me: stfu, you're the worst offender and are the sole reason I'm so ahead!

Doesn't even have to be true, just gotta say things so that even their team starts attacking them.

Can't do it with the new ban system though.

Spacesuit Spiff1 votes

Yeah, when I smurf I see an astounding amount of this. If you want good teams... maybe don't smurf? This one guy even said "omg nobody helped me when I was diving a Leblanc as pre-6 Akali , so bad, I forgot how many terrible players there are in level 4"

Eevee In A Jar1 votes

-Aight guys I'm better than doublelift I Challenger I make bjerg look like a baby I carry our nub team out of bronze on my back solo -2 minutes in gives up FB to bronze jungler 1v1 -WTF TEAM SUX NUB TEAM REPROT FOR UNSKILLED YOU ALL PLAY LIKE BRONZETARDS

ultragames1 votes

Players that are smurfing are ruining new players experience

Señor Karthus1 votes

I am not fine with smurf accounts. I am teaching a friend to play League of Legends and he always tells me how discouraged he feels because a smurf destroyed him. Smurfs are cowards and a problem that Riot should address because they are costing them new costumers.

Colgate Gator1 votes

I have no idea what compels these people to rage at lower level people, I leveled up my smurf quietly and then carried on to rank up.

Taarki1 votes

What I have a problem with is a "plat smurf" coming into a bronze/silver game and saying everyone is bad and then going 2-17. That is not Okay and they should be banned if they do that.

chipi991 votes

New players are freindlier than veterans. just had a post game chat like this: Garen Teemo Nice job you were a tough opponent Teemo Thanks dude you were a hard opponent to. Ekko great job team

BeatinWarDrumz1 votes

is this a joke thread? are u really ok with people going into the games of low level players like me and wrecking us? think about how it feels to be really new (like level 5). U first fight easy af bots and ur like ok i think i've got the hang of this. then, u go to pvp and go like 1-10 cuz of 60% of level 5-10s are smurfs it really, realllly turns ppl off

Champion Skin2 votes

Well then again there is no other way to get an account on a different server other then leveling up a new account and likely wrecking noobs (or just relax and play Nasus and sit and farm all game... who needs to win anyway)

BeatinWarDrumz1 votes

I dont really consider that smurfing - imo smurfing is more when u need to blow off some steam so u go "pwn some noobs"

LaceUp231 votes

Your idea of smurfing is off. It is simple making a new name. Can be for many reasons, including playing with a friend that is new to league. No, it isn't a joke thread. You have to learn eventually.

5512021 votes

Thats why we should not find a player lvl 30 in a team of lvl 20-29 against 5 players lvl 20-29. I saw that so many times!! And the lvl 30 always insult their teammates because they are not as good as their teammates in ranked... The only solution: Make players lvl 30 unable to play with or against lower lvl.

Hatless Casual1 votes

Had this problem when I first started back in mid season 3, smurfs basically turned me from the game until the end of season 4.

Shosuko1 votes

What Shinjusuke said. I wish there was a "report: bad smurf" option... Add these reports against their main accounts.

I think a lot of people who say they are smurfs aren't actually smurfs but want you to think they are so you let them get their champ / role. These are the guys who go 2-15 and rage at their team because "they're too heavy to carry even for pro"

Also people who get snowballing on a strong champ I think claim they are smurfs as a troll attempt.

Mohagan1 votes

i'm just going to repeat what i said in a reddit post: "I like to think of it this way, people with a high/higher elo smurf to feel good about themselves. 1 smurf in particular I actually liked because he/she said they wanted to get the hang of the game again after not playing for 1-2 years. it's the early levels that are tough. once you're able to get to higher levels you will be matched with people of your own skill, just need to unfortunately tough it out. good luck with your games." normal games had its own set of mmr. do amazing, get matched with amazing people; do terrible, get matched with other "terrible" people. either way, you will eventually face people with your skill level

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