Smurfing Should not be acceptable or tolerated by riot.

FlashDeca··4 votes·1,868 views

Riot Games Should actively seek out smurfers/ tanking and ban accounts. SImply saying "frowned upon" is useless. Riot claims they cannot enforce it, when players are smurfing on LIVESTREAM. Just BAN THEM??? 100% morally wrong. Why the heck am i Playing Games while trying to get better and climb In gold against master/grandmaster smurfs. I had pro lcs players in my game in high gold, who straight up trolled my game. Were afk every other second and clearly tanking their account. The mechanics were so good my first assumption was they were scripting because of how above it was for the league. They straight up inted and then killed 5 people like its nothing.

Been experiencing this non stop for 8 years riot and all you can say is you "frown upon it and are highly against it but you don't set any repercussions" If you want to stop players from smurfing (which you should because not having that view is a pretty bad Look/pr for your morality as a company) set a fucking punishment in place for players who do so. At least then people can actually hold others accountable for this kind of behavior instead of letting the game stay toxic.

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Míellá3 votes

The question is.

Why should smurfs be banned. Most of them create their own accounts and level them to play ranked with friends. Ofcourse will they be a lower elo, so they can do that. Aslong as they don't int or do anything that isn't against the rules, like account sharing (account buying), its all ok and Riot can't do anything about that.

FlashDeca1 votes

Its morally malicious and wrong.

FlashDeca1 votes

The only reason to make a smurf and "play with your friends" is to pub stump and show off to your friends. If you want to play league with your friends play normals. And if you have to play ranked with your friends play 5v5. and no sorry if you don't have 5 your out of luck. You should not be allowed to play solo queue wth your friends when u are more than 2/3 divisions higher. Theres a reason riot already puts that condition in place and going around that by smurfing is morally wrong and against what riot stands for as a company.

Zed genius2 votes

lol no

Azure Hamster2 votes

South Korea links your account to your government ID number. One person, one account unless you're cheating.

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greekvandaL1 votes

Doubt one smurf is gonna keep you from climbing. Specially considering most people who bitch about smurfs are players with thousands of games in their said division that is ruined by smurfs

FlashDeca3 votes

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Doubt one smurf is gonna keep you from climbing. Specially considering most people who bitch about smurfs are players with thousands of games in their said division that is ruined by smurfs

This has nothing to do with climbing or not. As you clearly missed the entire point of the post. Its morally wrong period and should not be tolerated.

greekvandaL1 votes

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This has nothing to do with climbing or not. As you clearly missed the entire point of the post. Its morally wrong period and should not be tolerated.

It isn't never has been. It's a game plain and simple. If i go out to play football with my friends is it morally wrong that i'm better than some of them and the other few that play it for a living are better than me? No. That's how it is. And if i or anyone else want's to make a smurf to play with his lower tier friends so be it.

FlashDeca2 votes

arguing with you is clearly is a waste of time. THeres a big difference between playing with your friends and playing with strangers for ranking points

greekvandaL1 votes

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FlashDeca1 votes

Why are you even commenting here?

FlashDeca1 votes

You have nothing constructive to say period. Its the same IDGAF attitude that the community has.

greekvandaL1 votes

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Why are you even commenting here?

you are in my feed. i dont want adc and janna/lulu mains talking to me either but it happens

Dragfin1 votes

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Riot Games Should actively seek out smurfers/ tanking and ban accounts. SImply saying "frowned upon" is useless. Riot claims they cannot enforce it, when players are smurfing on LIVESTREAM. Just BAN THEM??? 100% morally wrong. Why the heck am i Playing Games while trying to get better and climb In gold against master/grandmaster smurfs. I had pro lcs players in my game in high gold, who straight up trolled my game. Were afk every other second and clearly tanking their account. The mechanics were so good my first assumption was they were scripting because of how above it was for the league. They straight up inted and then killed 5 people like its nothing.

Been experiencing this non stop for 8 years riot and all you can say is you "frown upon it and are highly against it but you don't set any repercussions" If you want to stop players from smurfing (which you should because not having that view is a pretty bad Look/pr for your morality as a company) set a fucking punishment in place for players who do so. At least then people can actually hold others accountable for this kind of behavior instead of letting the game stay toxic.

Smurfs hardly cause toxicity when you have feeders, afk's/dc's and trolls that are not being punished. I bet any amount of money that you don't go out and buy stock in Kleenex brand tissue when the smurf is on your team. You can lie on the internet, it's ok, everyone does it.

FlashDeca1 votes

Actually i straight up threaten to report smurfs to riot on my team in queue whenever anyone says they are smurfing because it ruins the game. You are wrong. Also feeding isnt toxic.

Dragfin1 votes

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Actually i straight up threaten to report smurfs to riot on my team in queue whenever anyone says they are smurfing because it ruins the game. You are wrong. Also feeding isnt toxic.

Nothing can be done about smurfs. Report them all you like but your report will fall on deaf ears every time. Feeding is very toxic, especially when the person is too ignorant to stop fighting the same opponent over and over and dying to them. Then it becomes intentional. I am sorry you must be one of those people who keep doing that but if you are in my game and do it you will be reported for it. That is reportable. Stop fighting them and farm safely. It's not rocket science.

FlashDeca1 votes

This comment is everything wrong with the league community. Guy you are unranked and your only ranking was for 1 season and you were silver. You have 0 qualifications to be discussing this.

Dragfin1 votes

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This comment is everything wrong with the league community. Guy you are unranked and your only ranking was for 1 season and you were silver. You have 0 qualifications to be discussing this.

And you probably are one of the ignorant ones who think quarterbacks are defined by super bowl wins.

Please get off your high horse and stop making stupid comments like this one. Just because a person doesn't play ranked don't mean they don't understand the game. It doesn't mean they don't research information. Just because they don't have a little rank thing by their name doesn't mean they don't know what they are talking about. You and those like you are exactly what's wrong with society. Your comment and the same made by others like you show such a shallow mind it's not even funny. I can't do anything but feel sorry for you.

I've been gaming probably longer than you been alive and smurfing has been around since then. It is impossible to get rid of a smurf. It's a fact of gaming that you need to get educated on along with living in reality.

FlashDeca1 votes

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