I've smurfed before and I'll admit i've been toxic to lower elos before on my smurf.
The reason is simple. Why be toxic to lower elos?
Well some smurfs wonder. How can people (not all low elos but a lot of them) be SO INCREDIBLY IGNORANT at the game, and i'm not talking about genuinely ignorant like they just need time to learn, I mean the ones picking fights over shit THEY THINK THEY KNOW BUT DONT.
The toxicity doesn't come from 1 directions rarely do you find people ( unless unreformed) just be straight up toxic out of the blue.
However I've seen lower elos pick fights on me on the smallest dumbest shit i've ever seen, not only that, but they ARE WRONG about what they think they're right about.
It actually baffles my mind how stupid people in low elo have the audacity to talk about shit they clearly have NO IDEA what they're talking about, but not only that but BE TOXIC in trying to yell it out at said smurf.
I've played games in Silver/Gold where I would be jungling and out of nowadays my mid laner starts SPAM PINGING NONE STOP it's like 1mins30secs in.
"COME MID COME MID COME MID"
me : "no stand back DO NOT PUSH if you are losing I need to JG clear, you will die"
SOLO DIES
"WTF NOOB JUNGLER YOU'RE TRASH I TOLD OYU COME MID"
"and I told you to stop pushing and stand back"
"YOU ARENT EVEN SUPPOSED TO TAKE RED BUFF, LOL BRONZE NOOB, YOU SUCK DICK"
Carries the game going 13-0 while 3-4 people a game act exactly like the first player.
"LOL YOU SUCK JG YOU'RE THE REASON I"M 2-11"
"no you playing like shit and dying continually trying to fight the laner you've fed 10 times in a row is the reason you're 2-11, i'm 13-2"
"STATS MEAN NOTHING" (personal favorite line from low elos, not realizing ELO is just a stat)
Seriously, ask yourself a better question because i'll tell you right now. High Elo is NOT very toxic, you get a toxic game in like 1-30 games. You're trying to make it up as if Smurfs are toxic, but low elos are not only extremely more toxic, but they are dumb and tend to push a negative view on someone until they snap.
How would you like if some jackass came up to you arguing that 2+2 = 1? and you said "no it's clearly 4" and he started getting up in your face and some other random jckass in the room started defending it's 4? You would start to get annoyed. That's what it's like in some games with low elo.
Low elo, is fucking brutally toxic, Why are low elos SO incredibly stupid? Why do they put blame on everyone else. Why can't they admit they are there for a reason? Why do they think they know shit better than the pros who play this game 12 hours a day and mathematicians who find the optimal build?
Nobody knows.
Cough* TYLER 1 COUGH*
Yeah Tyler1 is toxic, but my favourite quote from him is "players are bad and need to know they are bad"
now while I don't agree with this, I agree that some low elos THINK they are good, and yet become toxic over shit they do not know in which case. Yes they need to be put in line.