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Can someone enlighten me on whether smurfing actually is healthy for this game?

The Great Divide·7/14/2017, 2:39:32 AM·2 votes·712 views

So I was against a smurf in a normal game who was bragging about stomping our top laner. And I kept questioning them as to why they do it. Even showed them smurf etiquette page that was posted a while ago one here: https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/player-behavior-moderation/AtjGhPe4-etiquette-of-smurfing (which of course they said was written by a butthurt person)

This person said they were only smurfing to learn Nidalee. But when I question them on their behavior, I get responses like: "im gonna ranked after lvl 7 mastery SO I CAN TILT KIDS EVEN MORE THEN THEY CAN RAGE AT ME SOME MORE. welcome to the secret of getting out of silver"

So like.... I still don't get it. Why is it allowed for plats and diamonds to smurf in my high silver games, especially when they all have these attitudes. I get that sometimes learning a new champ is hard in those elos.... but you're in those elos. I think you can deal with the small sacrfice that is having to struggle a bit to learn a new champ. I have to do the same struggle here in my own elo.

10 Comments

Infernape7/14/2017, 2:46:47 AM2 votes

Tbh some people use smurfs to do things they know couldn't do on their mains lest they lose LP/MMR. I had a "diamond" smurf Syndra in one of my ranked placement games that deliberately tower dived and fed the Fizz repeatedly to the point where he could oneshot me without his ultimate. Not to mention they didn't even attempt to play properly because "idc this is my smurf".

Some people smurf to legitimately play with their lower ranked friends (although this does result in a massive skill level disparity between the smurf and everyone else in the game). And some people smurf to practice champions they can't play on their main (pretty much the first point). Not to mention you have those that smurf to just stomp lower ranked players to make themselves feel better (for whatever reason -cough- elo hell -cough-).

SecondAirbane7/14/2017, 3:55:21 AM2 votes

smurfing can be a good thing

especially when they're trying to get 10 accounts into challenger why you gotta hate smurfs man?

Finn Teh Human7/14/2017, 5:34:33 AM2 votes

Anyone (on smurf or not smurf) learning a champion in ranked games is legit scum. You wouldn't want someone to do it in your games so why would you do it in someone else's. Also people who like to shit talk a lot on their smurfs most likely can't play and win against people of their own elo. If they could they wouldn't be so proud that they squashed a Silver. However you can look at playing against smurfs as a boot camp. Looking back now I'm glad people smurfed, just made me a better player.

MaropaL27/14/2017, 6:16:05 AM2 votes

Originally i wanted to learn new champs, but then between lv 17 and lv 20 i got matched with premade Plats/Dias who intentional feeded and then quit (Their Profile showed the rank).

So i raged a little and got straight up banned for 2 weeks.

FlyingRoboticCow7/14/2017, 7:58:16 AM2 votes

No smurfing is in no way healthy for the game and I would love to see riot do somthing about it but i don't know what they could do about it.

Cocho7/14/2017, 3:15:11 AM1 votes

Originally my smurf account was to learn new champs, but then I realized I don't like other champs lol. Still waiting on that Akali VGU. Now the goal is to get it up to around my main's rank for practice. I don't want to play on my main cause I'm just camping diamond lol. Although I think I could probably climb on it, wanting to win and the frustrations that come with inting/boosted teammates against similarly skilled players just isn't fun. I wouldn't play on it either way.

Being able to play on my smurf to improve/practice without the frustrations that comes with ranked is great. The issue you're talking about stems from the fact that they just got placed lower than they should.

I get that sometimes learning a new champ is hard in those elos.... but you're in those elos. I think you can deal with the small sacrfice that is having to struggle a bit to learn a new champ.

You're thinking about this backwards. Picking up a new champ and performing at a plat/diamond level is harder than picking it up and performing at a bronze/silver/gold level.

Healthy for the game? Well probably not until your near the rank you should be, but unhealthy people are why I do it lol.

Kei1437/14/2017, 5:28:42 PM1 votes

not all smurfs are plat / diamond.

Technically, a silver1 player would be surfing when playing in silver5 ELO. There is a gap in skill between those ELOs already, that skill could be micro / macro or just both.

BigBellBrute7/14/2017, 8:08:19 AM1 votes

There are several legitimate reasons one might want a smurf.

One might want to do flex queue with people that aren't so good but are friends they want to play with. One might want to try a different role from time to time and they don't want their main account to drop.
There are other reasons to smurf and the smurf will quickly move to where it should be.

But under no circumstances should one smurf to be a jerk.

FightORFlight7/14/2017, 8:11:56 AM1 votes

Actually smurfing in low elo while you are d+ is bannable if you're hanging in there on purpose but if they are truly high elo you wont see them for long in my experience champ skill level will only get you to about g3... everything else is map awareness and teamplay

Let me tell you why i have a smurf... so im playing since s2 and i have every runepage, champ and rune... i actually bought random champion tokens for ip to lower it abit... i hate to see that ip just acumulating there so i created a smurf so it would acumulate there