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Smurfing Should not be acceptable or tolerated by riot.

FlashDeca·4/12/2018, 12:08:13 PM·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.

20 Comments

Míellá4/12/2018, 1:57:42 PM3 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.

Zed genius4/12/2018, 1:06:30 PM2 votes

lol no

Azure Hamster4/12/2018, 2:09:40 PM2 votes

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

Caitlyn

greekvandaL4/12/2018, 12:10:29 PM1 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

Dragfin4/12/2018, 12:38:45 PM1 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.