"Lol, idc this is just one of my smurfs"

Horrow··25 votes·1,908 views

You have someone on your team in a Ranked game no less, playing completely stupid like chasing the tankiest Leona into the fog of war. You and your allies ping that person and tell them to stop chasing, but they do so anyway then die when Leona's team pops ouf of the FoW and destroys your teammate 5 v 1. They do this several times, which in turn costs you towers, dragon and baron, ultimately losing you the game.

Their response? "lol idc, this is my smurf"

What do you report them as? And does Riot insta ban people like this? I personally feel like they should. Its pretty unfair to have someone like this on your team and they cost you the game, a ranked game, and they don't care. Because its their smurf. It leaves everyone else that isn't a smurf salty because they had an individual like this on their team that didn't want to work with everyone else.

Riot, what do you guys do when you see reports on people like this? Do you just turn a blind eye to them if they only do it once in a while? This may be vengeful or selfish of me, but I feel like it should be a Zero Tolerance policy on these kinds of attitudes. Especially when the person specifically says things like that.

I would rather have a silent teammate who throws the game over a teammate who throws the game, but then says things like that. It puts me on tilt. It puts other people tilt. It will outright piss people off if they encounter behavior like this in their ranked games. People become butt hurt, they start becoming toxic. Smurf42 just laughs and reports them.

Basically a giant mess of tears and anger. Ugh. item 3070

19 Comments

TheI3igDaddy3 votes

Fuck smurf accounts.

St0rmln2 votes

Players should only be allowed to have 1 account per IP address. Then riot needs to work on 2v2 mode for players to be able to play with their friends that are in lower ranks. ultimately being able to play with friends is the only excusable reason for a surf account right now. "just wanting to crush opponents" is not a good reason for anyone.

Live2LetDie1 votes

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Players should only be allowed to have 1 account per IP address. Then riot needs to work on 2v2 mode for players to be able to play with their friends that are in lower ranks. ultimately being able to play with friends is the only excusable reason for a surf account right now. "just wanting to crush opponents" is not a good reason for anyone.

I made a smurf because of que times. Waiting almost 3 minutes was stupid. My s1 waits maybe 20 seconds.

St0rmln1 votes

Fair enough but you shouldn't be allowed to rank with your smurf. There are players trying their absolute best to rank up and you could be preventing them. Doesn't seem fair to them.

Live2LetDie2 votes

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Fair enough but you shouldn't be allowed to rank with your smurf. There are players trying their absolute best to rank up and you could be preventing them. Doesn't seem fair to them.

But most smurfs don't even play at they Elo its ranked for. Found this out when my smurf got placed s1, highest you can get placed on unranked account, and I'm still in 3 min que be chase the Elo is p3 haha

DrCyanide14 votes

External IP addresses at, say, a university are shared by everyone who is at the university. This would ruin Collegiate League of Legends. They're also shared per household, so you'd kill LAN parties or families where multiple people play at the same time.

Smurfs are problematic, yes, but restricting by IP address is not the answer.

Horrow2 votes

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External IP addresses at, say, a university are shared by everyone who is at the university. This would ruin Collegiate League of Legends. They're also shared per household, so you'd kill LAN parties or families where multiple people play at the same time.

Smurfs are problematic, yes, but restricting by IP address is not the answer.

That's a good point. As much as I dislike Smurfs, that wouldn't be fair to people that fit the LAN party category. I wish there was some solution to it, but there doesn't seem to be a good, fair one. I would really appreciate it if smurfs kept that fact to themselves. (edit: That fact being that their smurfing. If you smurf, don't tell other people on the team that you are. It serves no actual helpful point to doing so)

I guess the problem I have with smurfs are the one blatantly stating they're smurfs, then throwing games because it won't affect the account they mainly play. People like that, who say "lol idc, this is my smurf. enjoy the loss" should be punished heavily. Attitudes like that only breed toxicity and ruins the gaming environment.

Biffolo1 votes

So I'm the only one allowed to have an account from my house. What about my brother? What about my father? Are they just shit out of luck?

St0rmln1 votes

I guess in the case of one computer and multiple people you can either share it get more computers. I know that's not a very fun answer but what else can we do about this smurf issue?

Biffolo1 votes

Disregard it because it's not that big of a deal?

Catastrop1 votes

You know there families where multiple people in the household play from different accounts. This would be a good idea if it weren't for that little detail.

Tyaldan2 votes

This is a bigger problem than just smurfs. This is the same kinda person who goes into a regular plays like shit and then just says its a reg. Yeah, its just a reg, or its just your smurf, but if you arent playing to win dont fucking play. I play for fun, winning is funner than just having fun though. Its fun with extra fun at the end. Dont play if you dont want to win.

Ryot Nomad1 votes

THIS!

Live2LetDie1 votes

Get him to cuss at you, report for verbal abuse, and laugh at him:) ez

Ionian1 votes

Report for assisting the enemy team if they don't feed much, intentionally feeding if they do.

IceKingChernobog1 votes

this is where riot should start giving out IP bans

Olath Quortek1 votes

Honestly the proof is in the chat log... IMO Riot should be more harsh in general but if someone specifically says "idc im a smurf" they should get a perma-ban... probably at the first offense so that nobody else has to deal with them either as an ally or enemy... but maybe that's just the power hungry-asshole hating-asshole in me... shrug... idc this is my main account and I might as well be honest...

LCS DoubleVision1 votes

Riot is is never going to limit accounts, they make to much with them. Second, Riot can't limit accounts to ip because most people can change their IP and make new accounts, the only people it would affect are people who don't know how to change their ip.

AJStarhiker1 votes

Odds are, if he's being a jerk on a smurf, he's just as much a jerk on his main. Behavior patterns don't change that much just because a person is on a "throwaway" account.

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