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Smurf players offending low level players. Please stop, we're new.

FusionBen·3/20/2016, 10:42:10 PM·179 votes·9,338 views

Greetings community, lately I've seen many smurf players offending low level players for playing bad or for a single mistake they have made. Today I found the worst player for me by now. Acussing me of trolling because I didn't call a mia. The entire game the "smurf" player didn't stop feeding and telling me that I was trolling while I was 0/0/7 with . This guy said that was a Silver smurf and still offending me with no reason, I'm level 11. Sorry for not playing as a ranked player with more than a year of experience.

Please players, we're still learning, we can't play as a 30 level player yet. Please stop being offensive to us, because I'm not the only one who is recieving these comments, a lot of low level players have recieved these offensive comments. Tell to your team what to do and what to build if they don't know, is always well appreciated. Thank you for reading fellows.

121 Comments

Babo Migug3/20/2016, 10:54:52 PM35 votes

I think you have it wrong smurf is a term for way higher level players playing on a different account ranking it up. An alt account though is where bad players just make a new account to play vs ppl slightly worse than them. Players that alt account always flame because they arent that good in the first place.

Tempura King3/21/2016, 1:46:42 AM13 votes

Don't forget when people say to you the occasional "no duo top go jg" when you're below level 10 and don't have smite. Smh.

Trashkuun3/21/2016, 1:38:02 AM6 votes

I know it sucks having to deal with these jerks, but I do want you guys to keep playing! Leagues community is one of the most toxic I have seen next to Tumblr and YouTube. They do have a mute button when you hit tab. there you can silence all things that players says since they are obviously not helping you in anyway possible. A good suggestion to you is to find a willing level 30 to help guide you through the ropes. I know I have had many friends ask for my help simply because I have been playing this game for so long. 'Tis why I have a pretty banner. It's going to be tough until you get to a higher level and start showing people your true skills. I have a level 20 who can out ADC half the people I know that are in gold. She is amazing at it shockingly enough. Just find someone who melds with you and is easy to work with. That is for any and all low levels. There are nice guys, it's just hard to find us.

Also, words of the wise... REPORT REPORT REPORT REPORT! Always report when people are being toxic, make sure to be descriptive in your reports as well.

Emperor Time3/21/2016, 6:20:14 AM5 votes

lol a silver smurf that's cute.

A lvl 80 Shoe3/21/2016, 4:45:02 PM4 votes

Honestly, I'm in bronze, I'm bad, I know.

Doesn't mean I have to be mean to people learning, I'll help people learning gladly. I'll explain what an ability does, I'll add you, and even teach you in a custom.

What's the point of being rude to someone learning? Why?

LankPants3/20/2016, 11:45:14 PM4 votes

0/0/7 sounds pretty good, I'd say if he was getting mad at you for that he's just unreasonable.

FusionBen3/20/2016, 10:50:13 PM4 votes

Please leave a comment of your thoughts. Heimerdinger

Mael bro3/21/2016, 8:35:30 AM3 votes

I said it before and i will say it again. Smurfing should be considered toxic behaviour.

Rain Smurff3/21/2016, 4:57:02 PM3 votes

wait who the hell smurfs when they are silver ? ? ?

Cookimonster3163/22/2016, 12:24:38 AM2 votes

Well if they need to smurf while they're silver they need to insult people to feel good

MToTheAtrix3/21/2016, 10:39:40 AM2 votes

Altough this is on point and happens always. I myself have made an alt on EUW because my NA account didnt work. As a level 30 and Silver 4 I know im not amazing at the game, but when I try help the lower level guys . e.g : 'You guys shouldnt chase kills. Go for obj when you can ^,^' Sometimes I get a good response, very rarely. Most of the time its a 'Stfu Im diamond smurf' or 'u dont even have 10 kills yet' and this list goes on and on. item 3001

General Esdeath 3/21/2016, 11:15:48 AM2 votes

Welcome to League, can I introduce you to the mute/report buttons? :^) They're your friends.

But yeah, just mute people like that and report them at the end. Or even better, ask them for proof, ask what their Summoner Name is on their main account and ask for a link to their "op.gg" which will give their real name. You can put that in the report ticket and someone at Riot might see it and punish their main account.

Fllesh3/21/2016, 4:04:38 PM2 votes

hu... i always thought a smurf was just an another account that a previous lv 30 made.... so in other words someone who knows the game, not just learning it for the first time.....

so many problems this community seems to have is just different ways of viewing speech....

DazedOnlooker3/21/2016, 8:34:27 PM2 votes

Tell to your team what to do and what to build if they don't know, is always well appreciated.

One time, during my first few days of playing this game, Sona was on the free rotation list, so i picked her up. Since i was new, i had no idea what to build until someone on my team reccomended that i build item 3003 and item 3174 , but since i saw that i had a few more slots open i figured i would build dmg but i didn't know what, but since i was stil ignorant about the concept of AP vs AD on certain champs, so i decided to build item 3085 item 3006 item 3031 item 3100 as my last few items...i took this build into another game and our top and bot(me included) ended up feeding, and thus, making the game more difficult. our mid then goes on to harrass me for the rest of the game (like 30mins) calling me "trash support" with a "trash build".

Meanwhile my duo adc was TwistedFate with this build item 1302 item 1333 item 3031 item 3072 item 3085 going through the same god damn thing since she was also new and just wanted to have some fun and enjoy the game.

I calmly asked him what he would suggest i build, i told him i was new and that i had no idea how "building" worked. He proceeded to call me every tilting name in the book, constantly making sure that i was aware of how bad i am at this game untill he told me that i should build "nothing".."don't build damage, at all" and it continues:

Sona "But i need dmg to help my adc"

Varus "no u dont, stop, just stop. sell everything"

Sona "what am i going to do with all the extra gold?"

Varus "NOTHING, DONT BUILD ANYTHING UR A FKING SUPPORT"

Sona "what items do i buy now then?"

Varus " item 2045 item 2043 item 2003 (insert blue potions here) item 3340 THIS IS ALL U NEED"

Sona "ok but thoes don't fill all of my slots"

Varus "dont care"

Sona "so i will use the empty slots to buy dmg, cdr and mana"

Sona *Has Purchased item 3031 item 3003 item 3174 *

Varus "FOR THE LAST TIME UR A SUPPORT, U DONT NEED THOES, IF THIS IS HOW U SUPPORT, THEN NEVER SUPPORT AGAIN, UR BAD"

Sona "but i need the mana and cdr so i can spam heal and keep u guys healthy at all times"

Varus "no u dont"

Sona "soo....i leave the slots empty, and sit on over 15k gold?"

Varus "YES, NOW STOP BEING BAD AND GO BE USEFUL SOMEWHERE ELSE"

If i didn't have such thick skin, i probably would have uninstalled after that game,never had i ran into someone soo toxic and aggressive towards their own team, who is not only a few days old to league, but also just wants to help their team and learn the game .

Reaper Review3/21/2016, 8:52:33 PM2 votes

As someone who is one of those "wasn't really good at the game before but for X reason is now playing on a new account" people (I made a thread about my situation earlier), I can tell you what part of the problem likely is.

Actual new players are playing almost a totally different game than people who are/were already level 30, mainly because League's tutorial is hugely uninformative of the game at large and many things that are important in ranked play simply won't come up for a long while.

People not playing support "properly", the prevalence of duo tops at lower levels because the game itself doesn't offer any help on jungling (and a lot of champs can't jungle to any real efficiency without good runes), it's really not doing much to prepare people for the "real game", so to speak.

One player trying to teach another the way to play only goes so far when the other three players may or may not be playing along.

Another thing I notice is that a lot of these cool new features Riot's put out are borderline unusable for new players. The shiny new champ select isn't even a thing until you have 16 available champions, hextech crafting is barely usable since a new player likely won't be getting good ranks, and of course cool new champ releases that, if they buy them, they're just making it harder in the long run since they won't be able to afford runes without MORE grinding.

Pre-30 is basically a whole bunch of smaller problems all having a pile-up and creating a miserable experience overall.

PePsiLemoNN3/21/2016, 5:44:07 PM2 votes

Silver smurf

lol

The Obamatar3/21/2016, 1:28:48 AM1 votes

too bad riot not only wants smurfs but forces some people to smurf with their rediculous "threat level" rankings I do feel your pain though, most new new players are better of not leaving bots, people are really nice there

Loli Lulu3/20/2016, 11:02:07 PM1 votes

Unfortunately, the low level experience is horrible for newer players. The combination of a massive number of smurfs, toxic individuals leveling new accounts since they were banned, and actual new players make it really rough. That and the lack of good tutorials and game explanation kind of throws new players to into the wild, unless they really read up and practice.

While smurfing, people need to keep in mind they may be playing with legitimately new players to the game. Instead of raging or unhelpful comments, they should provide constructive criticism and help. (Or just not talk at all, if they're going to flame otherwise.) To newbies, keep an open mind, and try not to be discouraged! Keep playing and improving. (If you see a "kind" smurf, rare, but they exist, maybe ask if they'd be willing to teach or play with you!)